Teacher Accused Of Quieting Kindergarteners With Clothespins

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Teacher Accused Of Quieting Kids With Clothespins
District Does Not Plan To Use Substitute Teacher Again

Posted: 7:20 pm CDT April 5, 2007

Amanda, Ohio -- A central Ohio school district won't be using one substitute teacher again, after school officials said she used clothespins to silence four chatty kindergartners.

In a letter to parents Monday, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen said Ruth Ann Stoneburner confirmed last week's incident. Johnsen also wrote that the four boys told him spring-type clothespins had been put on their lips for talking too much in class.

Amanda-Clearcreek Superintendent J.B. Dick said Stoneburner has been permanently suspended. He said what happened was unfortunate, and he said the punishment isn't one the district supports in any way. He said he planned to report the substitute teacher to the Ohio Department of Education.

Johnsen said that when he called Stoneburner after talking to the boys, she admitted she had punished the children with clothespins.

There was no answer Thursday at a number for the substitute. Stoneburner had worked for the past several years as a substitute teacher after retiring from the district as a school nurse, Dick said.

Amanda is about 27 miles southeast of Columbus.

Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.

[spunkygirl]

Wow I don't live far from Amanda, Ohio, my dad lives in Amanda

[AB]

Wow!

[80s_Fan]

In my opinion; if anybody doesn't have the patience and/or tolerance with kids like that;
then why become a teacher and/or substitute for that matter?
As time goes on and on; I notice that more and more people have less patience with kids.
What's this world coming to?

[G-Force Glockstar]

Originally Posted by 80s_Fan

In my opinion; if anybody doesn't have the patience and/or tolerance with kids like that;
then why become a teacher and/or substitute for that matter?
As time goes on and on; I notice that more and more people have less patience with kids.
What's this world coming to?

Exactly....idk why some teachers become teachers when they don't like kids!
I think that people with no tolerance for kids shouldn't even be ALLOWED to be teachers!

[coffield3]

[An 80s Guy]

I cannot beleive this.Why is this person even a teacher.I clicked on the wrong image and I cannot change it.That's why the drool thing is above my post.

[PrettyinPink55]

What is wrong with this world???? Goodness!!!

[dawsongirl]

Kids used to get hit in the ass with ruler and other various wooden objects and no one complained and the kids learned their lesson. Nowadays, this is something that people go all insane over as if these kids were beaten severly or something.

This world is going backward.

[catlover79]

That's terrible.

Here's something that happened to me when I was in 1st grade, during the 1986-87 school year. My teacher was a lady who while not elderly, was getting on in years. As it turned out, she retired right after that school year. We were cutting out figures from sheets of paper. I did something wrong, I think I cut too much off one of the figures. I remember they were penguins. But the teacher happened to be coming right behind me and pulled my hair!! She took a handful from the top of my head and just yanked it!! Yes, it hurt, but I was so shocked I didn't make a peep. None of the other kids noticed. I never told anyone about it because I thought I deserved to be punished. I know now that's no reason to pull a kid's hair, for making a mistake cutting out figures from a piece of paper! Nowadays if that happened, the teacher would be hit with a lawsuit so fast it would make his/her head spin. How things change...

[dawsongirl]

Originally Posted by catlover79

How things change...

In just 20 years too. Scary sad.

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by An 80s Guy

I cannot beleive this.Why is this person even a teacher.I clicked on the wrong image and I cannot change it.That's why the drool thing is above my post.

You can change it, Just click edit then go advanced and then select a different icon.

[circa1948]

Originally Posted by dawsongirl

Kids used to get hit in the ass with ruler and other various wooden objects and no one complained and the kids learned their lesson. Nowadays, this is something that people go all insane over as if these kids were beaten severly or something.

This world is going backward.

I hope not! No one ever complained about spousal abuse or sex offenders either, it doesn't make it right. Hopefully we are learn from the past. Violence begets violence.

Learned a lesson? sure, they learned to use physical pain on another to get their way. If spanking 'worked' it would only need to be done once.

Plenty of people myself (and my kids and grandkids included) were raised without corporal punushment and got much better results. It resulted in happy, well-adjusted, respectful children who knew why what they did was wrong and obeyed the rules. Sure, they'd push the envelope at times; it's a child's nature to test limits, but it didn't take much to get them back on track once they saw they got positive attention not negative.
Just MOHO

[shes_a_star]

Originally Posted by 80s_Fan

In my opinion; if anybody doesn't have the patience and/or tolerance with kids like that;
then why become a teacher and/or substitute for that matter?
As time goes on and on; I notice that more and more people have less patience with kids.
What's this world coming to?

I agree.

What a crazy person.

[dawsongirl]

Originally Posted by circa1948

Learned a lesson? sure, they learned to use physical pain on another to get their way.

Not necessarily. My parents grew up in the era of spanking and I was almost never spanked. And there were plently of times I should have been. They also don't beat anyone.