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School Librarian Suspended for Alleged Mouth-Taping IncidentOfficials at Arnold Butler Elementary School in Elk Grove, California, are investigating allegations that a school librarian taped the mouths of more than 20 3rd-grade students she felt were too loud in class.Norma Ortega went to school officials about the incident, which reportedly happened in October 2003, after she overheard her son Jack talking about it. “She put tape on our mouths,” young Ortega said on the NBC5.com site of Chicago’s WMAQ-TV. “She said if we talk again, she’ll get the same tape and put it back on our mouths.” The librarian, whose name was not disclosed, has been suspended with pay pending an investigation, which officials say is standard procedure. “The district is disheartened whenever there’s an incident that involves children,” said School District chief of Staff Martin Cavanaugh. But Norma Ortega said the district’s statement provided little comfort. “It bothers me to think I’m at work, and his teacher is there. And thinking she’s a wonderful teacher that I always thought she was. But I don’t trust her.” Posted March 26, 2004. |
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