Pre-school teacher kept discipline by duct taping youngsters’ mouths
Published: 23 April, 2010, 19:12
Edited: 12 October, 2010, 16:41
TAGS: Children, Crime, Scandal, Russia
A kindergarten teacher in Siberia duct taped children’s mouths shut to calm them down. The truth came out only 4 months later as the woman had threatened the children if they told their parents.
The teacher, with more than 40 years of experience, kept the noisiest children silent by wrapping the tape around students’ heads and taking it off just before the arrival of the parents.
“Sometimes she took the tape off together with hair. It was really painful”, says Kostya, one of the youngsters, in an interview with Rossiya 24 news channel.
When the police were alerted by the parents of one of the youngsters, they first thought it was only a childish fantasy. However, closer scrutiny of the kindergarten and conversations with the children proved that the teacher had resorted to this measure with her students.
When confronted, the teacher admitted to everything. She then resigned and disappeared, only to be found three weeks later in the neighboring republic.
Criminal charges of child abuse have been filed against the woman. On Friday she was interrogated by investigators and released on the condition she not leave the area. If convicted, she could face up to 3 years in prison.
Also, investigators are currently trying to find out if there were people in the kindergarten who knew about the alleged abuse.
Psychologists have begun working with the children to help them get over the shock they suffered.
This is not the first time pre-school teachers in Russia have duct taped youngsters’ mouths. A similar case happened last year in a kindergarten in Arkhangelsk Region, northwestern Russia. In 2007 the public was outraged by a case at a clinic in the Russian Urals when a nurse taped shut a baby’s mouth to stop him from crying.
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That's not too terrible, but it's rude, like telling someone to "shut up" in a group of equals. I used to have to walk the triangle at recess and one time stare at a wall. I also was on the lowest rank on our color chart because I brush things off because I'm in my own little world, so I would get into the wrong place in line all of the time, and they thought I was being bad, so they kept punishing me until they figured out that there was a mixup with me and another girl, and I'd kind'of accepted it, but I didn't have a usual place, and I was bad. This girl's situation reflects the teacher's inability to find out what was wrong with one of her students and correct the issue to maintain her classroom. Most of school, espeically younger years, is dedicated to socialization of various sorts and proper behavior and values to build off of later. Immaturity of one student usually has a reason, and it's bad for society if not corrected because she'll keep on her path that isn't appropriate for her environment and be maladaptive in other areas. It's not a stab at her person; it's more or less her current reaction to her surroundings and the child's lack of awareness.












Spare the Rod spoil the child,children learn from when their are young,remove displicine ,respect ,you end up with a society like England and America.Looking around at the crap we have today at the top in the west,ones conclusions this devious garbage like it that way.Uneducated people it is easier to govern.Educated they may not like what governs them.and could become a threat to their priveleged way of life.Another reason why we have our broadcasters and media giving us their masters crap agenda.Well their crap intepretations and analysis.