Bus Driver Duct-Tapes Kids' Mouths

(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