Teacher Duct-Tapes Misbehaving Student
From Times Wire Reports
A teacher has resigned after duct-taping a 14-year-old misbehaving boy to his desk and covering his mouth with tape, the school superintendent said.
Tommy Brindley’s parents said the boy nearly suffocated before freeing himself about 15 minutes later.
The seventh-grader from Oran, Mo., about 120 miles south of St. Louis, has attention deficit disorder, said his father, Larry Brindley.
“He was misbehaving” while in detention, Brindley said. “He wasn’t being mean. He was just being ornery.”
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