{"id":545,"date":"2006-02-27T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=545"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T15:56:21","slug":"the-out-of-control-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"The Out of Control School District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=local&#038;id=3911830\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"silva\" alt=\"silva\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abclocal.go.com\/images\/ktrk\/cms_exf_2005\/news\/ktrk_021605_silva.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you thought the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=536\">teacher who didn&#8217;t know when to shut his big, fat mouth<\/a> was bad, we now have a teacher who will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=local&#038;id=3911830\">tape that big fat mouth shut <em>for<\/em> you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The alleged incident happened February 2. Silva, who was struggling to control her class at Alexander Elementary School, reportedly told the students that if they didn&#8217;t pipe down, she would tape their mouths shut. Gina Lovett&#8217;s daughter witnessed it all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a few more minutes after chatting, Ms. Silva just  grabbed the tape off the desk,&#8221; said Lovett.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, Silva has been suspended with pay, pending investigation.  And interestingly, an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/local\/education\/stories\/khou060216_ac_katyteacher.3167b379.html\">e-mail campaign supporting her and her actions<\/a> has been started up by some parents.  Guess even they know that their little brats don&#8217;t know when to keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, she doesn&#8217;t seem to be the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/local\/education\/stories\/M_IMAGE.10941787f49.93.88.fa.d0.3179f6d5.jpg\">most photogenic creature<\/a>, either.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the teacher who didn&#8217;t know when to shut his big, fat mouth was bad, we now have a teacher who will tape that big fat mouth shut for you: The alleged incident happened February 2. Silva, who was struggling to control her class at Alexander Elementary School, reportedly told the students that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}