Lynda

Gee, wonder why so many folks homeschool! And, wow, if it had been duc tape
instead of masking tape, would they have slapped her hands with a ruler?

Lynda
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> > Officials agree: students should not be taped to
> > desks
> >
>
http://sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/18/tapedkids0106
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> >
> > WARMAN - A central Saskatchewan school division
> > stands by its handling of an incident which saw
> > young children taped to their seats. It happened in
> > March at the school in the village of Leask, north
> > of Saskatoon.
> >
> > Saskatchewan Valley director of education Michael
> > McLeod says a teacher put a strip of masking tape
> > over the children's laps. He says it was meant to
> > teach fidgety children to stay in their seats.
> >
> > McLeod says it was a bad idea. But he says a
> > disciplinary report on the teacher's file is all the
> > punishment that's warranted.
> >
> > "The board recognized that she was facing a
> > challenging situation and sort of reaching into the
> > barrel or the bag of tricks to try to indicate to
> > these kids that they needed to behave appropriately
> > or acceptably.
> >
> > "So they felt that a letter was appropriate. It
> > wasn't malicious. It wasn't harmful. Nobody was
> > being restrained or injured."
> >
> > McLeod says allegations that the teacher restrained
> > the students using duct tape are false.
> >
> > Lana Johnstone-Ledoux's six-year-old son, Brandon,
> > was one of the children taped to his seat. She
> > thinks the teacher should have been punished more
> > severely.
> >
> > "At least they did something, but it's nothing to
> > what I imagined what would have happened. I believed
> > she was going to be removed for doing this.
> >
> > "I am really disappointed in what she did and how
> > they dealt with her, because [if] you're in a day
> > care and you decide to do something like this to a
> > kid, you're not going to have a job."
> >
> > Johnstone-Ledoux took her son out of the Leask
> > school after the incident. He finished the year at
> > the school on the nearby Mistawasis Band reserve.