A substitute teacher in Las Vegas is reportedly taping masks onto students who forget the facial coverings, drawing ire from one mother.
A mother, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that her son forgot to put on his facial covering before getting up to get a drink of water, after which his substitute teacher used two layers of tape to attach a mask to his face in front of his entire class. When the boy went to the office to pick up some homework he had forgotten, the tape on the boy alarmed a school administrator, who removed the adhesive, the mother said. The administrator then told the school principal, who went to the classroom to investigate and discovered a second student with tape on his or her face, the mother added.
“I was furious, furious,” the mother told Fox 5 on Friday. “I was scared for my son on what kind of long-term effect it is going to have on him socially, the fact that the entire class was laughing.”
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The woman’s son was “very upset, he was crying, [and] he was humiliated,” she said.
The Clark County School District said the district is “aware” of the “isolated incident” and is “dealing with the employee through the proper channels.”
“The principal proactively notified the boy’s family of the investigation,” the district added.
The boy’s mother, who filed a police report over the incident, is calling on the substitute teacher to resign and never teach children again. While she does not have an issue with mask mandates, she said that young children are forgetful and should not have been punished in such a way.
“It’s crazy,” she told the outlet. “Corporal punishment in schools should not be happening.”
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With schools set to reopen throughout the United States, local administrators and elected officials continue to debate which COVID-19 protocols are necessary to protect children and educators from the spread of the disease. While left-leaning states such as New York and California and many colleges and universities have implemented mask mandates for students, many states controlled by Republicans have moved to implement penalties for schools that mandate mask use. Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has moved to withhold funding from districts that implement mask mandates.
More than 4.7 million children have contracted COVID-19, representing 14.8% of all cases as of Aug. 26, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
