Subbing 101: You’re Not Allowed To Duct Tape Kids to Chairs

If you’re ever substitute teaching, as a last resort you could always just duct tape kids to the chairs.

Although, as it turns out, that might also get you fired.

It sounds like a sitcom. Or maybe an episode of punk’d.

But every once in a while, a little bizarr-ity breaks through to the real world…and of course, when it does, it always seems to land in the school district where I work.

Really.

A substitute teacher was dismissed, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reports, because SHE DUCT TAPED SEVEN KIDS TO THEIR CHAIRS.

(They weren’t supposed to tell apparently.)

(Silly sub.)

(Kids don’t keep secrets.)

The duct-taping incident, for some reason, didn’t go over well with the principal. Because as every good teacher knows, there will be dozens of times when you would like to use duct tape (and other office supplies–remember nuns and their affinity for rulers?) to tame your unruly masses.

You think about doing it.
You’d like to do it sometimes.
But you don’t actually do it, jokers.

Apparently a candidate’s stance on duct tape imprisonment is not a category on the substitute application. As a result, someone scraped by without ever being trained on the not-duct-taping-kids-to-chairs line item.

Oops.

Yes, again, we’re a headline maker. And its my school district.

Never been prouder.  :)