Student Seeks Damages Against Teacher

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:green'>Feb. 21, 2003
Student Seeks Damages Against Teacher

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A kindergarten teacher is being sued by a student who claims she taped him to his chair.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court by attorney Lyle Gregory, seeks at least $25,000 in damages against DaMara Lashley, a kindergarten teacher at Pitcher Elementary School in Kansas City.

The lawsuit claims that on Feb. 5, Lashley punished the student by &quot;binding him to his chair with tape&quot; although the student posed no danger to himself or others.

As a result, the lawsuit claims, the student suffered emotional distress and humiliation and had to undergo psychological counseling.

Lashley did not immediately return a telephone message left at her home seeking comment.

Lashley and another kindergarten teacher as well as principal Rick Mills were suspended last week.

I really feel sorry for teachers today (http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=1144577&nav=1PuZE9aM)

~~this reminds me of the duct tape incident. *Teachers can't do any kind of discipline to control their class anymore. *I don't condone tape, but I can see where it can only help some kids.</span></span>

[Leelanau]

Bring Back Corporal Punishment - at least that was a deterrent!!!

But then again....I was a good kid! *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I used to make my cousins hold a penny to the wall with their nose for five minutes because their mother wouldn't let me swat them. *You should have seen how close to the floor their heads were when they finished! http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rofl.gif I'd make them start all over if they dropped the penny, so they had to follow it down to the floor if it slipped - it was hilarious! *

It was also a deterrent - it took one of them an hour to hold that darned penny there for a complete five minutes. *

Did I say I was considerably older than they were??? *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>corporal punishment http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/twothumbsup.gif Aha! I knew you'd make a good teacher, LEE http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin5.gif I haven't heard of the penny punishment. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mdr11.gif</span>

[Floridaguy]

Actually, I remember in my private middle school, a teacher did tape a student to his chair after he kept getting up repeatedly without permission. Funniest darn thing I remember from school. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>You sure that it wasn't you she taped to the chair? http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rofl.gif</span>

[Der Alte]

Laurie, if he was as rowdy then as he is now, it probably was him. *Doesn't seem to have left any permanent damage. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Floridaguy]

hmmm.... I don't think it was me. Then again, I have a strange long strip on my chest where no hair grows, sort of like the outline of a piece of masking tape. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin2.gif

(that was a joke)

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