To be honest, this says a lot more about the kid than the teacher herself. I see what Bill Maher means when he says that the parents arent on the side of the teachers any more, and more about coddling the kid.

Actually super glue works much better.....;-)

Seriously a dust mask would probably work just as well...and a little humiliation and embarrassment won't ruin the the little brat for life...might make him think twice the next time.

Hurray for the duct-tape teacher. That is assuming other less-humiliating pathways to shut up the mouthy/ nasty kid didn't work. Masking tape might be better, and just as symbolic. BUT THIS KID AND EVERY OTHER PUPIL IN THE ROOM WILL NEVER FORGET WHY HE GOT DUCT TAPED, if he is honest with himself and his parent. How likely is that? It is called a LEARNING OPPORTUNITY.

Diversion of misbehaving students by classroom discipline is certainly possible- my teacher-wife told me she would have put the child at the end of the line for lunch and everything else fun- after explaining to the child (and the class) that he/she could move back to his/her regular place with improved behavior.

NOTE: New Substitutes are routinely/immediately/severely tested by the children. THUS- A roll of duct tape on the desk! Myself--- I might even ask for a volunteer student for a try-out.

Wow, so you cant tape a childs mouth shut who wont stop talking and is being a brat (which was common for me as a child even in the mid 80's)...BUT, you can expel an 8 year old boy with a sexual harrassment record on his school profile for looking up a girls skirt on the playground. Basically, being a typical young boy.

This happened to my son by the way and I wished they had just whooped his a$$ with a paddle, got it over with and moved on instead of labeling him with a permanent record. I simply dont understand parents not wanting or allowing punishment of their child.

well duct tape over the mouth is hardly an "absolute worst nightmare", try a country where kids have real nightmares to worry about. Why dont you try growing up in say the Congo where the worst nightmare is being mauled by a 700 pound silverback gorilla or being beheaded by the rebels, not a little piece of duct tape. America is just full of a bunch of overreacting soft people, thats all I'm saying.

It takes a village to raise a child and if the parents aren't capable of raising a responsible human then it is up to the village to take that privileged away and do it for their own sake. Perhaps duct tape was not the right option, but who has not been on an airplane and considered it? The fact is we have raised two generations of children with little or no discipline, and it shows in all aspects of their generations. We have become weak as a people and it is the fault of bad parenting.

Under the law, the teacher may have been out of the bounds of what they were legally allowed to do to shut the student up, but what options were available that would work and when is it NOT okay to humiliate a teacher, as often happens. Teachers are often made fun of by students and often even reduced to tears, but they don't have much in the way of recourse.

I don't agree with duct-taping a child's mouth, because even good kids have the propensitity to chatter too much and it doesn't warrant that kind of humiliation, but how do teachers effectively get their students to shut up and pay attention when they won't quit their antics? Detention? Principal's office? What threat actually holds weight if there is no corporal punishment allowed? Sometimes kids need to be scared of repercussions to help pull their behavior in line and being all airy-fairy with time out doesn't work with all students. There needs to be real consequences for bad behavior.

I got spanked for talking in class once and my lasting impression of that teacher was that he was a good one. Strict, but he was a good teacher and just didn't want to spend half his day trying to keep control of his class. Was I scared of him at the time? You bet, but I also respected he simply wanted order and 30 kids to one adult isn't easy to manage.

This is absolutely riddiculous. The same thing happened to me, and I deserved it, I would not be quiet when I was told to, but now I wonder if I have a case also.$$$$$

Tell the kid you are sending a note or email to the kids parents.

Most 9 year olds will cry when the teacher advises them their parents will be notified.

Everybody who is defending this substitute teacher obviously have no children of their own or they wouldn't be saying the things they are saying. I can't believe everyone here is advocating child abuse. The punishment of a child's behavior should only be left up to the parent.

Schools are not even allowed to spank a student unless they have expressed permission from the parent or guardian.

What this teacher did does amount to child abuse. Putting duct tape over the mouth of a child? Child abuse. That teacher should have sent that student to the principle's office. That's what the principle is there for. This teacher crossed the line and they weren't authorized to punish the child in the first place.

I hope they win their lawsuit against this teacher and the school district.

Not saying I approve of the teacher's actions, but, man-oh-man, as a former teacher, I gotta say that there were students/days that this was ever so tempting.

When I was a kid, I was actually, physically afraid of my teachers. The classroom was QUIET. These days, if you just LOOK at a kid sideways, his parents will sue you. I subbed a couple elementary school classes a couple years ago and it was like being trapped in a monkey cage. These kids would not shut up. I'm a big man with a big voice and I towered over them and told them with force and menace to be quiet and they would not. I could not back it up and they KNEW IT. They had zero respect. Ho boy what I wanted to do with these little brats. I took my dark fantasies to the gym and worked on the heavy bag. No more teaching for me, thanks. I don't know how these teachers do it.

The solution should be "school has the right to send the student home if they failed to listen to the teacher." While I disagree with the solution but it seems to me everything has to be a legal lawsuit. What a joke..

must be nice being a lawyer in America, the land where people are not aloud to make honest mistakes without being sued, it's people like this mom that make me kind of embarassed to be an American.

Who didnt have their mouths taped shut with duct tape by a teacher? I'd bet about 80% of the successful people in America bucked their "substitute" teachers to the point of hilarious retribution. Oh, I forget, the last generation who was raised outside of the "PC" umbrella seem to have no sway over the group that is interested in raising kids, to remain kids. To wake up one day and complain about being punished instead of taking responsibility for their actions. I wonder of the 100 kids interviewed, how many felt the kid was talking too much and being disrespectful? Probably 100.

The little brat probably deserved it. Some of these kids are so mouthy, and are not afraid because they know laws are now protecting the "little darlings" from any consequences of their bad behavior. We were afraid to go home, when I was in school, if we had got in trouble at school. We would get a spanking at home.

AAAAWWWE, Did that mean ole teacher do something Michelle Droody should have done years ago? -- discipline her child??? The parents of the other children should be filing a law suit against Michelle Droody because this little brat disrupted class and prohibited their children from learning!

We never talked without permission, and never disrupted the class because had we the teacher would have rated on us to our parents and believe me, when I say my parents would have done something about it.

Too bad that ignorant mother can not see beyond her own selfish kid's distributive behavior and taken care of it at home.

Parents are the problem - kids get their attitude from them. I have seen this everywhere - my kid is the best, they can do no wrong and you better not do anything to upset them. I am ashamed of what many of our kids are like today: narcissistic, entitled, coddled. They'll never solve the problems we face on the planet. There are still good, educated kids but most (outside the few that have intelligent parents) don't have a chance to be a participant in a normal society. I guarantee you this kid probably deserved it and his embarassement is not important at all. He will be bragging about his parents getting the teacher I'd bet versus embarassed about being pointed out as a loudmouth.

My teachers would have grabbed me by the hair and tossed me out into the hall, or marched me to the principal's office. Then my parents would have spanked me when I got home. I am not scarred, and it was not child abuse.

LOL, I guess there is other ways she could have handled this. Parents need to tell their children to respect adults.

My brother had a teacher that had a solution for this type of problem, you got to sit up by the teacher, with your back to the class. Four years later when I got her all I heard was I hope your not like your brother, I don't want to have to look at you all day every day.

my 8th grade teacher was also the principal, she punished me and a pal for fighting in class

by taking us out in the hall and giving us several slaps on the hand with a ruler. We learned

our lesson quickly.

"He just told me he didn't want to go back to school no more."

Please keep your child in school, ma'am, so he never speaks that way.

All I know, is that you could not pay me enough to be a teacher in this day and age. I won't even do Sunday School as parenting today is sickening. I can't imagine why we have out of control, out of touch kids today - hmmmmm. Oh that is right - they must have made a bad choice - no candy for this bad choice - seriously. Teacher duct taping not an option, but a call to the parents to come and get their "child" - that just might wake the parents up and they just might have to address the "problem", then to find out OMG, it is my child and not the other person.