Posted on 02/15/2017 7:21:02 AM PST by Elvina
BANGOR, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – More controversy is hitting the Bangor school system. On the same day two teachers resigned after video of school employees making inappropriate comments about students went viral, new video has surfaced of a Bangor High School teacher duct taping a student in class and there is now a criminal investigation underway. The school system confirmed that a teacher resigned Tuesday after admitting to duct taping a 16-year-old student in his desk. Police say the boy felt embarrassed and wants the teacher to be prosecuted. The video, taken by a student, shows the Bangor High School chemistry teacher wrapping a 16-year-old boy in duct tape during class on Monday.
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I have a very vivid memory of my first grade teacher, a tiny redhead, shoving a student down into his seat, grabbing a jump rope, and tying him to his chair. He was a kid who needed to be in a different class where it was okay to shout things out, get up and run across the room, interrupt, etc. she just lost it that day. But I don’t recall there being any blowback on her at all, seeing as the kid was a notorious basket case.
Child abuse by an “educator”.
hal ogen wrote: "Child abuse by an “educator”."
Quoting the article:
The video, taken by a student, shows the Bangor High School chemistry teacher wrapping a 16-year-old boy in duct tape during class on Monday.
16 year old with full beard and uncooperative to requests to settle down his arm movements which distracted and took away time from class. See image:
Similar for me, a kid would needled the teacher so bad in 4th grade she would grab him by the back of the neck to pull him out of his desk (the kind with the chair and dest together), he’d resist (he had strong neck muscles!) and they’d go at it with her gradually dragging him toward the door with the goal of getting him out in the hallway. He’d be beet-red and the rest of us kids would scoot our desks out of the way to make a path for them ;-) It wasn’t a good thing but only one of them had the maturity to know it shouldn’t have been done.
Same thing happened to my brother in the 60s at about the same grade. This was in Mississippi before I was born. I guess she didn’t like his fidgeting or other antics so tied down with a jump rope he was.
That cannot possibly be a “16 year old”. Is this one of the refugees who “claimed” to be 16 years old but is a 23 year old ringer?
That was my first thought also.
You bring up a good point here. I don’t know the details of this particular student. However this area in particular is overrun by migrant workers in the fall and spring who dump their kids in the school temporarily. There are also allegations that a school employee enticed these families with gas cards in the fall to stay until count day, so they could get their $7000 per student from the State of Michigan before the families left. It will be interesting to see what comes to light from all of this.
I have no problem with this. The “student” needed humiliation.
Apparently he did not get humiliated enough, though.
What are the chances the ‘student’ is a muslim?
Our geometry teacher was also our tennis coach and he was a huge guy.
This kid - a tall one- kept disrupting the class after being quietly and sternly warned, so the teacher, upon having the kid give him some more sass, strode over, grabbed the kid by the shirt collar and dragged him out of the desk, then out the door of the classroom into the hall, with most of us straining to hear what he was going to do, and then “BOOM!” with just one arm slammed him up against the lockers like a rag doll, with the kid’s feet dangling helplessly below, and then quietly told the kid, “Now that I have your attention, I want you to know that nothing would please me more than to see you straighten out and pass this class with flying colors, but I will not have you here disrupting everyone else’s chances while you ruin your own. If you’re not a model student from here on out you are flunked, gone for good, no graduation. Now, let’s save ourselves some time. Do you want to be here or not? This is your last chance. Yes or no?”
The wide-eyed kid couldn’t nod while hanging there in the teacher’s grip, but managed to stutter affirmatively.
The teacher marched him back in, gestured another kid from the center front row, and parked the red-faced wayward student in front of the teacher’s desk, where he stayed the rest of the semester, meek as a mouse, and passed the class with flying colors.
I get what you are saying here. I am too young to have ever been in the public schools when this kind of thing was allowed. I don’t care what questions parents ask. I am just glad they are asking questions and finally getting involved in this failing district. Most of them are asking: Why is this teacher duct-taping the student? A better question might be: Why is this teacher so desperate that she feels this is her only option? The schools are a disaster. It’s too much for one teacher with a roll of duct tape to tackle.
Duct tape and a hammer can fix anything. At least she used the duct tape.
My first thought was that she has Trump Derangement Syndrome. But you all have converted me. She’s a one-man revolution trying to restore order in the USA.
But that kid had serious issues. He simply could not control himself. The same kid in the same class taught me that the whole "Running with scissors" is not just a saying...I saw that kid go running across the classroom carrying those blunt "kid-safe" scissors, trip over a chair, and jam those scissors into his eye, just barely missing the eyeball. Blood everywhere. It was gruesome.
They eventually removed him from our class. And towards the end of the school year, we learned that he had been hit and killed by a car in the street.
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