Bus Driver Duct-Tapes Kids' Mouths

Cops Say Woman Gave Children Ultimatum: Put On Tape Or Get Written Up For Bad Behavior

(AP)  Greenwood County deputies say they have charged a bus driver with eight counts of cruelty to children after she admitted she taped their mouths shut with duct tape after they misbehaved.

Investigators say 35-year-old Helen Curry told them she gave the children a choice of putting on the tape or being written up for bad behavior.

Deputies say the students were mostly males and ranged in age from 5 to 12 years old.

Authorities say the students reported the incidents after Curry was fired for unrelated reasons. School officials refused to say why Curry lost her job.

Curry has been released on a personal recognizance bond. A phone listing for her could not be found and it wasn't clear if she had an attorney.

[erasmus6]

"Maybe she should''''ve just tasered them." posted by klingon69

Hmmm, there''s a thought.:)


"There are also alot that both have to work (or single parent homes where one has to work multiple jobs) to make ends meet."

And that has to do with what? I don''t care if it is a single parent or if both parents have to work, if they are bringing up the kids properly then they should be well behaved.

If both parents have to work in order to support the family and they don''t have time to teach their kids right from and wrong, then maybe they shouldn''t have had kids. Not much point in having kids if you have no time for them, is there?

Too many people are having kids just for the sake of having kids. They have them but then don''t spend time with them or look after them properly.

[klingon69]

The problem with parents today is that they are lazy and can''''t be bothered to stick to what they say, so kids just don''''t even listen. Of course there are also the parents that just don''''t give a *********.
Posted by erasmus6 at 03:39 PM : Feb 22, 2008
There are also alot that both have to work (or single parent homes where one has to work multiple jobs) to make ends meet.
Maybe she should''ve just tasered them.

[klingon69]

With diesel being well over $3 a gallon and those massive yellow fuel suckers burning it up at 5 MPG the parents should be footing the bills to move THEIR kids around
Posted by newster1 at 01:43 PM : Feb 22, 2008
Anyone who owns property does, called taxes. Even if you have no school-aged children. If you own property, some of those taxes go toward not only the public school system, but also to colleges and universities.

[jkhagemann]

The bus driver was justified in doing what she did. I had it happen to been me and I would have hit the boys or girls just like what happened to me when i was a child. This respectng your classmetaes as well as your adults.

Next time I throw them off the bus for good. They can walk to school.

[gunownerdan]

gunownerdan Did you in fact say what Schoollord said that you said "I wish someone would shoot gunnerv1"?
Posted by gunnerv1

Of course I didn''t say that.
The only person on here who seems to want to shoot people is schoollard. A couple weeks ago he even threatened to shoot me!
He''s totally "NUTZ" for sure and I bet he is 100 times more violent than most gun owners are.

[tmittelstaed]

Hoo Boy - I remember how I and my friends behaved on the bus when we were kids - our favorite thing was to try to get the bus driver to pull over and stop the bus by being obnoxious. Great fun it was. I think the driver was probably laughing up his sleeve most times, though, as he only stopped a few times when someone dreamed up some novel new way of being obnoxious - you didn''t get rewarded with a stop for the usual run of the mill obnoxious behavior. Most times the driver ignored us - it was amazing his capacity for ignoring us - I don''t think even today that I could do as well. The only thing that was really taboo was a paper airplane that made it past the front seat - the two times that happened, he pulled over for 10 minutes right before getting to school and didn''t let anyone out - whereupon all of us got tardies and had to get parents to sign readmit slips the following day.
Today, neither of my own kids is far enough away to do the bus thing, so they won''t have those memories. Too bad.

[gunnerv1]

School(crazy)lord NO GUNS USED HERE!

[fishinfool43]

sassalin:

She did have a right to punish- have you ever heard of in loco parentis. People like you are the reason no one wants to go into education anymore


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Posted by locke10 at 03:17 PM : Feb 22, 2008

These bus drivers are responsible for everyones safety on the bus. If Little Johnny gets injured on that bus, who is the one ultimately responsible? The Driver!!! This is not just on the bus either. It is easily for someone hauling 40 or so screaming little terrors all jacked up on sugar, to be distracted and have an accident. Its also a Public Safety matter.

[Martha Z]

If it were your own kids and you felt like placing duck tape on them, that is your problem, but doing it to other children that are not your own is different. She should not have given them a choice, she should have reported them like she was told to do when she was hired.

[fishinfool43]

We need to ban duct tape to protect our children!


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Posted by gunownerdan at 03:28 PM : Feb 22, 2008

Duct tape ought to be mandatory, if most people seem to let their children run like little animals

[erasmus6]

I am not against spanking if it is the last resort. I managed to raise my kids without spanking them. A teacher once told me that when you take away something that they love, that works great. If they love talking on the phone, take away the right to use the phone. If they love t.v., the computer etc., stop them from using it. But when you do this, you need to STICK TO IT. And you don''t just do it for a day.

The problem with parents today is that they are lazy and can''t be bothered to stick to what they say, so kids just don''t even listen. Of course there are also the parents that just don''t give a *********.

[gunownerdan]

Blame the duct tape.
If the driver didn''t have any evil assault tape, she would not have been able to tape anything shut at all.
We need to ban duct tape to protect our children!

[hall9504]

I would have wrapped the kids mouth 3 times around

[paganmama]

Years ago my son was bared from the school bus for a week because of bad behavior, and I had to drive him to school.We never had a problem again.My father did not hesitate to disipline me, and by disipline I don,t mean No TV for a week ,my behind can attest to that. I followed the same routine for my children ,and we all turned out ok.
Posted by jankebenz at 02:42 PM : Feb 22, 2008
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ITA. When I started kindergarten, my mother told me, not to forget my "home training" when I was on the bus, at school or out in public, because chances were there would be someone around who knew her and me and word would definitely get back to her. Of course I thought it was just talk until the day I came home and got a spanking for sassing the lunch lady.

I''ve given my 6 year old the same warning and I make it a point for him to see me talking with the teachers, principal, aides, crossing guards, etc. So he knows I''m not just talking.

BTW, after my experience of being on the bus for the field trip,I know that my kid definitely won''t be riding the bus to school.

[locke10]

sassalin:

She did have a right to punish- have you ever heard of in loco parentis. People like you are the reason no one wants to go into education anymore

[erasmus6]

"I''''m going to venture a guess that most of the people sticking up for the bus driver don''''t have kids. In fact, I''''d bet on it." posted by easeup

Wrong, I have two kids and I can guarantee that they wouldn''t have been acting up on the school bus or anywhere else because I taught them to have manners.

Now if the school bus driver had have herself put the masking tape on their mouths, I might have been upset. But she didn''t, she gave them a choice and they chose the masking tape.

There is a lot of parents today that are completely incompetent and should be held accountable for their children. Maybe if they were, they would wise the hell up.

[jankebenz]

Years ago my son was bared from the school bus for a week because of bad behavior, and I had to drive him to school.We never had a problem again.My father did not hesitate to disipline me, and by disipline I don,t mean No TV for a week ,my behind can attest to that. I followed the same routine for my children ,and we all turned out ok.

[inventagod]

This happened to John Ashcroft as a youth and it didn''t affect him...

[toolmangler-2009]

"and I had my own gun at the age of eleven.
Posted by ToolMangler at 11:56 AM : Feb 22, 2008
THAT is scary.....
Posted by easeup at 12:06 PM : Feb 22, 2008



At the age of 8, I plowed the fields with a two horse plow, I chopped wood with a double bladed axe and beheaded the chicken for dinner with the same axe, At the agee of eight I was probably more prepared to be an adult than your kids at the age of twenty, Do not try to tell me about children and discipline. I have forgotten more than you ever knew, and I still know more than you about children and how to raise them.

[republic1776]

How else will kids learn?
The should have B-slapped them, then duct-tape lol