Bloody Lip

Credit: IcronticPrime / photo on flickr

Kenyatte Hughes, volunteer band director at New York City's Intermediate School 292, has been charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon after placing duct tape on the mouth of a 9-year-old student. The boy suffered a bloody lip and swelling and redness on his face after Hughes ripped the tape off.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The leader of the Soul Tigers marching band claimed he was trying to teach a 9-year-old Brooklyn student a lesson about slavery when he duct-taped his mouth.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I just can't understand this new common core curriculum.

[dantheserene]

Excellent.

[Radioactive]

teachers...second worse nazi's right after cops

[Unicorn Abattoir]

"Nazi's" is a singular, possessive noun. You should have used "Nazis," which is a plural noun.

/teacher missing the point

[Granny Weatherwax]

No matter how much of a good idea it seems at the time, you can't actually duct tape children. People always end up taking a dim view of the proceedings.

[CharlesWT]

A Google search indicates that it has seem to be a good idea by quite a few people over the years.

[Old Man With Candy]

Cyanoacrylate is far more effective. Teacher was an idiot.

[Robert]

9 YO? What grade do the IS go down to now? Started at 5th or 6th when they were instituted. Previously you'd have elementary thru grade 6, then JHS for 7-8. Other parts of the country had middle school covering some part of 5-9. But 9 YO would be very unusual.

[LarryA]

So now in NYC duct tape is a weapon you can be a criminal for possessing?