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North Carolina English teacher resigns
after 'covering mouth of boy, 11, with
heavy duty TAPE to stop him talking in class'

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Posted By: Imright, 3/23/2023 7:01:17 PM

An eleven-year-old North Carolina student allegedly had his mouth taped shut by his sixth-grade English teacher after talking too much in class. Catherine Webster received a text from her son Brady in February saying 'I don't know what to do' with an image of himself with layers of blue painter's tape stuck to his mouth during class at Smithfield Middle School, Johnston County. Horrified by the image of her son who she described to be a 'chatterbox' who has a 'tendency to clown around', Catherine posted the shocking image to Facebook to bring to light her son's story and his interaction with Dawn Felix who she refers to as 'Mrs. Felix'

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Laotzu 3/23/2023 7:15:40 PM (No. 1432007)
Parents, do your duty. Protect your child. Take her teaching license and sue for assault. Make it so when you walk in that school, the staff pees themselves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: halfnorsk 3/23/2023 7:21:19 PM (No. 1432010)
My second-grade teacher scotch-taped the mouth of a female classmate who was a chatterbox. Everyone, including the girl, thought it was humorous--and effective. Of course, that was 60 years ago.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catherine 3/23/2023 7:23:15 PM (No. 1432013)
Back in my day, yes I'm old, we didn't dare talk nonstop in class. The nuns lectured you and scared you and if Mom found out, well it wasn't pretty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bogeegolf 3/23/2023 7:30:29 PM (No. 1432015)
This reminds me of my best friend that hasn’t stopped talking for the sixty years I’ve known him. In grade school back then the teachers surrounded his desk with bookshelves which basically gave him his own little office. Now he is an English teacher.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: thefield 3/23/2023 7:39:52 PM (No. 1432019)
My teachers grew up with my dad. I didn't dare say anything at home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Bluefindad 3/23/2023 7:50:30 PM (No. 1432023)
Big deal! When I was young in the L.A. public school district, my experience in homeroom upon entering junior high was that our 7th grade homeroom teacher (a math teacher) made tardy students come to the front of the class and bend over while he administered a swat with a custom-made paddle. This public humiliation quickly established an attitude of behavioral compliance. To my knowledge, we were not permanently scarred by this experience. Instead, we learned that we were not the biggest fish in the sea.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: voxpopuli 3/23/2023 8:03:53 PM (No. 1432032)
blue painter's tape.. oh.. has the consistency of a spider's web..
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rumblehog 3/23/2023 8:37:41 PM (No. 1432056)
Give him what I got whenever I was caught talking. My little fireplug of a female English teacher would take me into the hall, tell me to bend over, grab my ankles, then swat me about 3-5 times with her, "board of education." Something about walking back into the classroom with watery eyes that encourages a more "silent self" going forward.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 3/23/2023 8:42:01 PM (No. 1432059)
In my day the board of education would be applied to the seat of understanding by Sister Mary Battleship. It really advanced the learning curve without an ambulance chaser in sight seeking redress.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 3/23/2023 8:42:14 PM (No. 1432060)
I remember one teacher taping two student's mouths shut in front of the entire class and make them stand there. They managed to loosen their tape and started making faces. That was around 8th grade. I also remember a third-grade teacher putting a piece of tape on every student's desk as a warning of what will happen to them if they talked in class.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 3/23/2023 9:18:23 PM (No. 1432079)
10% of teachers quit after their first year. 44% quit after five years. Teaching is stressful hell.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 3/23/2023 9:48:34 PM (No. 1432094)
I am all about teachers treating students respectfully. But, let me tell you a bit of how this situation most likely developed. Student will not listen. Most likely he has the "I have more rights than anyone - and IEP." Of course, he has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD based on a questionnaire his mother filled out. With this in hand, she makes sure he knows he ADD/ADHD and "he can't help it." Oh, and odds are he lives with his single mother/grandmother/aunt/foster parent. He is argumentative and disrespectful. He has been asked time and again over the entire school year. He has been counseled, had discipline notices written, parent phone calls, in-school suspension, endless behavior modifications. Most likely, his classmates are sick and tired of it as well. He has been to the principal's office and been sent back to the room to continue his disruption. This behavior has been going on since school started back in August. It has been relentless. The teacher is most likely physically and mentally sickened every time he/she sees the clock advancing towards that class period. They have called in for several sick days. They have discussed the situation with their colleagues for help and suggestions. Everyone has their breaking point. Her better choice would have been to simply resign. Of course, that isn't the choice she made and she will pay the price. Public schools are not hell holes because of Leftists. They are hell holes because Leftists realize that there are so many broken kids there, and that makes those halls and classrooms happy hunting grounds for the communists, anarchists, and alphabet people, and groomers. Trust me, you know who the kids are that have a parent or parents. The child in this article is the result of an egg and sperm donor getting together and making something that neither want the responsibility for. There are tens of millions of them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: ChattyCatsSusan 3/23/2023 10:07:41 PM (No. 1432099)
Unfortunately, this is not a new thing, teachers bullying kids who have lots of personality. I could tell tales about a couple of the teachers my brothers and I experienced back in the 60's. That teacher needs to be permanently barred from any teaching position anywhere in this country. Mom needs to crack down on this boy though and make him understand that the classroom isn't the place for disrupting the teacher. His behavior is for the playground, not the classroom.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: chumley 3/23/2023 10:15:48 PM (No. 1432113)
Blue painters tape is not sticky. Its designed to mask windows and things without pulling paint off woodwork. This is a big fat nothingburger. He probably WAS talking too much. I had a teacher who reminded me I was talking too much by tugging her ear ala Carol Burnett. That worked too, as long as I was paying attention to her.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: ramona 3/24/2023 12:24:36 AM (No. 1432162)
A chatterbox isn't necessarily antisocial or nasty. Boys generally have a more difficult time in school than girls. So give the boy a chore to keep him busy. Give him a class roster and let him make a check mark next to every student who raises their hand to speak. Give him a stopwatch and let him time and record and chart the number of seconds/minutes he can wait between talking. Let the other students explain to him why they don't like it when he talks. Give him a specific role to play in a class discussion (for example, identify as many examples of poetic elements in a story). Etc. Etc. Often these boys will not miss a beat, following along with the lesson while they express their frustration with sitting still by chattering (or staying busy with a less disruptive chore). There is no need to humiliate a child by taping the mouth. Even a chatterbox can have a sensitive soul. Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 16 - Posted by: anniebc 3/24/2023 9:34:52 AM (No. 1432379)
I'm on the teacher's side on this one. Leftists with their evil influence have so convoluted truth and what is good and right, you have to hear the whole story and think critically about what you hear to come to a right conclusion. We used to automatically discern and know these things.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: doctorfixit 3/24/2023 11:59:48 AM (No. 1432493)
Blue painters' tape is not heavy duty. It's paper. I hope the teacher finds quitting was a blessing in disguise. Teaching in today's Woke world is pure torture.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: RUReadyY3K 3/24/2023 12:13:03 PM (No. 1432501)
It seems to me that simply removing the disruptive student from the classroom (send to detention or the principal's office) would be the appropriate response.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: judy 3/24/2023 1:56:12 PM (No. 1432573)
When I went to school we didn’t dare speak out of turn! Parents took the teachers side whether they were right or wrong!
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Reply 20 - Posted by: CivilServant 3/24/2023 2:55:03 PM (No. 1432622)
Hmmm, one wonders if a male teacher would have had a bigger impact on this young man, as opposed to being taped by some hysterical(word used for a reason) woman.
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