A Miami mom mentioned that her daughter’s pre-Ok instructor positioned tape over the 5-year-old’s mouth as a disciplinary motion. When the instructor later apologized, she claimed it was a playful motion that the kid “requested for.”
In keeping with WSVN, the incident occurred at Lorah Park Elementary College. Lationa Sterling mentioned she first discovered concerning the taping incident from her daughter Treasure’s aunt and godmother Natasha Clay.
Clay’s daughter Janiya, who’s Treasure’s cousin, is in the identical pre-Ok class. She recounted the moments her daughter instructed her what occurred.
“I used to be sitting at house Friday night time watching TV; she appeared over to me, and he or she mentioned, ‘Mother, Miss Nunez put tape over Treasure’s mouth,’” Clay mentioned. “She tore the tape and put it over her mouth.”
“It bothers me. That’s my little one. You’re attempting to close (her) up,” Sterling mentioned of the instructor.
The household mentioned they confronted the educator about what occurred and he or she later apologized by textual content.
“I apologize 1,000 occasions. It received’t occur once more,” the message reads. “… nor will I play once more with them once more this manner, nevertheless it’s as a result of they requested for it.”
However the apology wasn’t sufficient for the household who later filed a report with Miami-Dade Faculties Police and mentioned they deliberate to withdraw each Treasure and Janiya from the varsity.
“Abuse had been accomplished to my goddaughter. That was very abusive for anyone to put tape over her mouth, and figuring out whenever you take away the tape, it’s painful as properly,” Clay mentioned.
Different mother and father discovered the incident unsettling.
“It’s very scary for the kid. Who needs that to occur? Nobody needs that to occur,” mentioned mother or father Alona Rolle.
In a press release, Miami-Dade County Public Faculties mentioned the instructor was faraway from the classroom and reassigned pending an investigation into the incident.
