Innovation in the classroom isn’t always rewarded, as one kindergarten teacher in Ohio discovered:
A substitute teacher's tool for silencing chatty kindergartners — clothespins — doesn't wash with school officials.
Four boys said spring-type clothespins were placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen wrote in a letter to parents this week.
Ruth Ann Stoneburner, a retired school nurse who had worked as a substitute for several years, confirmed to Johnsen that she had used the clothespin discipline March 26, he said.
Stoneburner will not work again in the Amanda-Clearcreek district and was being reported to the state education department, Superintendent J.B. Dick said Wednesday.
I suspect, however, that if she takes off for a sunnier state, the under-appreciated Ms. Stoneburner would enjoy a warmer welcome. Here, for instance, she might be persuaded to upgrade from clothespins to something shinier.
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