To be mildly amused by the teacher placing sticky tape on her pupil's mouths?

[Firsttimmemummy]

I know it's not on. I do. But all the same I can't help chuckling every time it's read out on the bbc news and picture this teacher just snapping.

Please don't all be mean to me, I'm new!!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-26431417

You don't seal a child's mouth shut.

It is a punishment designed to humiliate.

There is no justification for the teacher having done this.

I agree OP - what a tempest in a teacup! I would have been more amused by it had I not been horrified by the spectacle of the parents and even the children baying for the blood of the poor teacher. I found it genuinely disturbing. One parent even informed the police, according to the news. Eejit.

Not sure about punishment designed to humiliate, tethersend.

More like silly way of getting them to shut up. I agree she shouldn't have done it, but humiliate? Come on. I bet they all thought it was hilarious.

Couldn't agree more, financeprincess!

I think she must have lost the plot but I too am guilty of laughing hard when I saw that. Maybe teachers need term time vacations occasionally too.

Oh yeah, I bet they had a right old laugh in the playground afterwards

Would it be ok if a foster carer had done this?

Would it be ok if the children had SN?

This school is local to me, three of my children went there, and I removed DS 3 to another local school as he was so miserable. There have been complaints about the management for years and no one is ever listened to. I help at a youth organisation and one of the girls that go to this school has told me this evening that the head teacher has told all the students that if they speak to the media or discuss the incident on social media they will be given and after school detention!, I'd say his response is typical for him in the way he deals with complaints. This is the same man who suggested dealing with DS1's school phobia by keeping him in after school for an extra hour and told me that it was very fashionable to read things on the internet when he was diagnosed with Asperger's.....

Surely we all know children who would benefit from having their mouths taped shut? Only during the waking hours obviously......

Interesting how many of the people who aren't finding this at all funny are teachers.
Reassuring too.

Oh, we all fantasise about stapling children to the wall by their ears, and velcro shackles and sellotaping their mouths shut on occasion.
But it's just that, fantasy during a tough session. In your head for a second.

I sniggered too

but no of course she should not have done it

but sometimes things that are not meant to be funny are because they are so wrong

She shouldn't have done it really, but I doubt the kids were that scared until they told their parents.

I don't know if all kids are like this but I used to find that ridiculous threats amused them. Things like "if you don't let me finish this parcel I'm going to tape you up and post you to Australia". The reaction I would expect would be "yes! tape me up please!" "no, me first".

I did find this funny when I heard it - as in "no way! As if!"

Maybe I'm weird but I can't believe no one has picked up on this. If she'd got the kids to press their lips together prior to sellotaping it would have avoided the whole bleeding lips situation. To me this is obvious.

Might send my cv off to that school. Offer my services as health and safety advisor.

I used to sellotape my own mouth as a child. For fun. That us how I know this!

fairy made me chuckle.

My sister was humiliated when it was done to her in the 'good old days'

I passed many a bored moment when I was younger selloptaping my mouth shut for fun. Them were the days!

I want to know where she bought Sellotape that sticks so well it makes a child's mouth bleed because I've never managed to find any that sticks that well.

I joked about doing this to a child in my class and he bet me it wouldn't stay on. In the interest of science we tried; it lasted all of 5 seconds before coming off due to him laughing so much.
Am a bit surprised how it stayed on the children in the article for so long?!

Depends on how many pieces I found! And proper "sellotape" is definitely more sticky than pound shop sticky tape. Obviously a richer school if they can afford the "good stuff".

Yeah me too! And when I really wanted to talk I'd cut a little slit in the tape but not take it off. Happy days! My parents must have been so proud.

I never had chafed lips though. Even at the age of 10? that seemed an easily avoided mistake...

fairyfuckwings please do! anything would be better than the dazzlingly bad display of first aid I witnessed at sports day last year! pretty sure that hauling a child with a probable torn hamstring to his feet by his hands isn't great, or when they sent my friends son home to her at the end of the day with a foot that got broken at 9:30 am, or when a child broke their wrist on the Spanish trip and waited two days for an Xray when they got home because the head didn't want to disrupt the trip by going to hospital.......

as a gobby teen in 1981 my teacher, MrsLamisaure told me to spit my chewing gum out and suck on chalk. I sucked for 5 minutes.

as my teens would now say, legend miss!

and I fully deserved it. she made me respect her and we got in from that day. just saying.

Nibledbyducks yes sure you are right.

however thank god for the teachers who saved my dds life on a school trip even though their colleague had died. true heroes.