" 'In reference to the body sock; it was not used for disciplinary reasons. It is used as a tool for calming children down.'
But then she added, "The verbal warnings given to [the boy] prior to its use were not working. If I wanted to 'discipline' him he would've been in time-out ."
So...let me see if I got this right...?
Boy was not acting calmly (we call that misbehaving where I am from).
Teacher asked him to calm down (verbal warning). I call this discipline. The boy was acting in an undisciplined fashion and the teacher drew his attention to it in the hope that he would start behaving more appropriately...I think we just defined discipline.
Boy continued to misbehave.
Teacher escalated discipline to "body bag" in an effort to calm him down (i.e., in an effort to instill discipline in the boy...ergo...she was using the body bag as discipline.)
Hmmmm....I know, I know...too much logic there for a public education employee.
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