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

How do you know if child is allergic to sellotape by the way? Hopefully the school will have it on file, seeing as it isn't unusual to have selotape in classrooms...

Yuck - I know the teacher was wrong but I really don't like all the Daily Mail "sad face" from the kids. I mean "traumatised", bleeding and frightened. Really? REALLY? Sounds like a very silly mistake from the teacher that people only got all fluffy about in retrospect. Modern classic.

there was a woman on the bus yesterday who prattled on and on and on and on - for 45 minutes - that is my "thinking" time, my escape from it time....

if I had taped her lips together - ooooooohhhhhhh I SO could have.... I would probably have been arrested...

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In the intrests of science I tried this on the DSs last night and it doesn't actually work ... Either the school in question has access to superior sticky tape or the kids where-ever it was have really weak jaws!

How do you know if child is allergic to sellotape by the way? You don't, until you do something stupid with it. I can use it. However, if I got some stuck to me for more than a couple of minutes I would quickly become covered in weals which would then blister. Damned painful and itchy!

Massive over-reaction IMHO. The children obviously went along with it cos no way can you sellotape a persons mouth shut unless they let you!

I bet the kids thought it was funny then some twattish parent(s) got all PFB about it.

I wonder which of the parents will be first to sue school for the "assault" on their little darling in order to get a nice fat payout........

FFS.

Have you all got the ad for double-sided adhesive tape at the top of this page now? That is so funny :)

Loving the child doing " sad face" while holding a roll of Sellotape in the Mail today!!!
I expect the children were not too traumatised until their parents started using words such as " shocking, disgusting, horrified " etc etc etc.
I think I would have been slightly miffed at best if this had happened to my child.

some of the kids probably though it was funny, some of the kids probably went along with it because the TEACHER told them to stand still - I would have been one of those - mortified but unwilling to go against authority out of fear of getting into more trouble ... still does not make it right....

So much wrong-
The children should not have been misbehaving.
The teacher should not have Sellotaped their mouths.
The parents should not put pictures of their children in the paper holding Sellotape.

Ooh it's going to be discussed on C5 TWS this morning. Don't know if that's wrong.

I would find it pretty amusing if one of my children had their mouth taped shut. I can't summon any angst over this.

The teacher was an utter dick to do this, surely at some point common sense should have kicked in and told her 'hang on is this really a good idea' whether the children were finding it funny or distressing.

And they were ten year olds - is that right?

I would get PFB on her arse if she did that to my child, - it would be humiliating not funny.

If it happened to DS2 I would want to know why he was dicking about in the first place before I rang the Daily Mail.

What if the kids had blocked noses - they could have died!!

Me too, Sparkling.

now you're just being silly Animation

I agree with you sparkling - there's never a good reason to go to the DM with sad face pcitures.

Sellotape ain't that good Animation.

In order to really firmly close a child's mouth, you need duct tape.

Not the right thing to do but teachers are under a great deal of pressure. If a kid had punched a teacher it would not have aroused so much shock ad reportage. Unfortunately. And the kid would probably be back in the class after 2 weeks.

I wonder how much the teacher has had to put up with lately. Final straw perhaps?

The children were old enough to know how to behave in class and if it had happened to one of my DC's they would have got a rocket for misbehaving in class before I took it up with the teacher.
We were talking about this last night and went over some of the things that teachers did to us in school, at a guess we would have been in the DM at least once a month wearing our best sad faces! Maybe if the parents took more control of their children's behaviour this teacher wouldn't have sabotaged her own career like this.
I very clearly remember a teacher who was a crack shot with chalk. He wasn't allowed to throw it at you but he would aim to just miss, a fair few of us would leave the lesson with a line of chalk across our hair... He also locked disruptive children in the stationary cupboard. One teacher who must have been driven to the same end of her tether that this teacher was once threw a chair at a student. She only retired from teaching a few years ago so obviously the parents of the brat student didn't complain!
I'm not 40 yet so this was only in the late '80's and early '90's.
YANBU, I was chuckling last night, especially when the news report showed just how traumatised some of them were, the ones I saw were laughing and joking.

I can't wait to hear what the panel on The wright Stuff have to say.

Because the first thing you do after being traumatised by something is get your picture taken and put in the Daily Fail isn't it?

I love how the last line of the article reads. It's like a cautionary tale against academies.