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COLUMBUS, Ga. -- An elementary school teacher in Fort Gaines, Ga., has been suspended after putting tape over the mouth of a fourth-grade student who would not quit talking.


Clay County School Superintendent Grady Miles said teacher Dorothy Griffin acknowledged she put tape over the 10-year-old's mouth on Wednesday afternoon and said she is remorseful.


Miles is investigating the incident.

The girl's mother, Julia Roberson, said her daughter suffers from attention deficit hypertension disorder. Roberson said her daughter seemed upset when she picked her up Wednesday afternoon and told her the teacher had put tape over her mouth.


Roberson said her daughter also told her the teacher told other students to be quiet if they didn't want that to happen to them.


Miles said Griffin was trying to get students' attention. He said that while she was taping up a book at a desk beside the girl's desk, she took a strip of tape and put it over the girl's mouth.


Miles declined to say whether Griffin, who has been teaching at the school for about five years, was suspended with or without pay. He said he hopes to handle the incident without taking it to the Clay County School Board.




Ok, so no offense, but I am sick to death of people hiding their child's bad behavior behind ADD or ADHD. Yeah, no one should tell her to shut up. And if she doesn't listen, oh well! She has a disease. :rolleyes:

The teacher should not have taped her mouth but there should be some kind of rules in place for talking or continous talking in class. Ecspecailly if the child has ADD, unfortantley the teacher was probably at her wits end and made an obvious poor choice in this matter.

The teacher should have either sent the student to the Principal's office or outside the classroom. When the lesson was over the teacher then could have had one to one chat with the student about her behavior in class. It is hard dealing with students who do not listen but the way this teacher handled the situation was inapproriate. I agree the teacher also should have had some rules and consequences set up which become routine for the students to follow should they break a rule. Teaching can be a tough job, it's unfortunate teachers do not always get much credit for the work they do.

My second grade teacher taped my mouth once. It didn't kill me. But she never had to do that again.:lol:

I remember in That's So Raven when Raven was reading to little kids, she taped some kids mouth. I just thought I should throw that in :lookaroun

My second grade teacher taped my mouth once. It didn't kill me. But she never had to do that again.:lol:
ME, TOO! Only it was 4th grade, like this girl, haha. But seriously, a coach at my school does this kind of thing all the time. The people usually get the point after he does it and shuts up. It's funny to see.

That reminds me, a friend of mine is married to a woman who was a teacher, and she got in serious trouble becasue she disciplined one of her students by taping his mouth.
It was in the New Jersey papers. I don't think she ever went back to teaching.