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Thread ID: 5166 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-02-22
2003-02-22 18:33 | User Profile
This sort of thing has happened before--a female teacher taping a young child as punishment. Imagine if this were reversed, and a girl was taped by a male teacher--there'd be lots of complaints that it was wrong. Yet, lots of people think boys are automatically a problem, or are defective, and deserve such treatment, and this is the sort of underlying assumption that results in boys being drugged up on Ritalin because of their natural energy.
[url=http://www.kctv5.com/global/story.asp?s=1144577&ClientType=Printable]Student Seeks Damages Against Teacher[/url]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A kindergarten teacher is being sued by a student who claims she taped him to his chair.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court by attorney Lyle Gregory, seeks at least $25,000 in damages against DaMara Lashley, a kindergarten teacher at Pitcher Elementary School in Kansas City.
The lawsuit claims that on Feb. 5, Lashley punished the student by "binding him to his chair with tape" although the student posed no danger to himself or others.
As a result, the lawsuit claims, the student suffered emotional distress and humiliation and had to undergo psychological counseling.
Lashley did not immediately return a telephone message left at her home seeking comment.
Lashley and another kindergarten teacher as well as principal Rick Mills were suspended last week.
A Kansas City School District spokesman said last week that the district was investigating reports that kindergartners were bound to their chairs with tape, threatened with a glue gun, had their hands bound and had pepper placed in their mouths.
Mills has acknowledged that he is a staunch believer in corporal punishment, but denied swatting Pitcher students. He has said he follows district policy and disciplined children by putting them in the corner with their hands behind their backs.