Friday, March 30, 2012

Bronx 12-year-old says teacher duct-taped him to chair in class - NY Daily News

Bronx 12-year-old says teacher duct-taped him to chair in class- NY Daily News: A Bronx math teacher bullied a scrawny sixth grader by duct-taping him into his chair while other students laughed and pushed him around, the boy and his mother told the News Friday.

Sixty-two-pound Irel Jones, 12, admits he can be a handful in class - but he didn’t deserve to be humiliated by Intermediate School 339 teacher Marcy Rubenstein, he said tearfully.

“I stood up during the lesson last Friday and she told me to sit down - and then she laughed while she taped me to my chair,” said Irel, who left the D-rated school on a safety transfer after the incident.

Rubenstein just grinned and left Irel taped to the chair for twenty minutes while other kids pushed him to the front of the class, he said.