An angry mum is demanding a teacher is fired over the bizarre punishment of her son, 9, who forgot to put on his face mask after getting a drink.
A “furious” mum is calling for the resignation of a substitute teacher who allegedly taped a face mask to her nine-year-old son after he forgot to wear it in class.
The incident occurred in a primary school in Las Vegas, where masks have been mandatory in schools, regardless of age of Covid vaccination status, in Clark County School District classrooms since July.
“He was very upset. He was crying. He was humiliated,” the anonymous parent told local Fox outlet KVVU-TV of the incident, which occurred at Reedom Elementary School in Mountain’s Edge.
The sticky situation reportedly began after the year four student neglected to don his face cover after getting up to grab a drink of water.
However, instead of simply telling him to put it back on, the female teacher “pulled him up in front of the classroom” and “taped the mask across the top of his face,” the distraught mother claimed, adding that this caused the boy’s classmates to burst out laughing. The teacher also reportedly slapped a second layer of adhesive to the top of the boy’s forehead.
School officials caught wind to the cruel and unusual punishment after the boy went to the office to retrieve some forgotten homework that his dad dropped off, Fox News reported.
The mum reported that “one of the administrators noticed the tape on his face” and removed the adhesive before notifying the principal of the public shaming display.
The school boss went to the classroom to investigate, and reportedly saw another boy with tape across their face.
The boy later told his mum that he remembered five similar incidents and that it had been happening since the beginning of the school year.
The frustrated mum insists that this is not a political issue as she supports mask mandates — but doesn’t think that going to extremes is necessary.
“Its crazy,” she said. “Corporal punishment in schools should not be happening.”
As such, she wants to the teacher to be held accountable for her actions, and to never mould young minds’ again.
Clark County School District has since released a statement regarding the humiliating incident, writing: “The district is aware of the isolated incident and is dealing with the employee through the proper channels. The principal proactively notified the family of the investigation.”
The mum, for one, is worried that the ordeal could have a lasting impact.
“I was scared for my son on what kind of long-term effect it is going to have on him socially,” lamented the parent, who has reportedly filed a police report and is considering transferring her child to another school.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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