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‘Unacceptable’: Teacher Suspended After Allegedly Pouring Pencil Shavings Into Student’s Mouth

Feb. 9, 2013 4:40pm Erica Ritz

Marquis Jay, Arlington Student, Says Teacher Poured Pencil Shavings Into His Mouth

(Photo: CBS11)

13-year-old Marquis Jay was sitting in his 8th grade class at Boles Jr. High School in Arlington, Texas when he says a teacher punished him by pouring pencil shavings into his mouth.

Jay explained that he was slouching and leaning with his head back and mouth open when the teacher tossed in the wooden shavings, but says that’s hardly a sufficient justification.

His mother, Deidre Brown, added for CBS 11: “I wanted to cry because it was like how could she do that…What kind of message is it sending to the kids? She is supposed to be the teacher – the adult.”

Jay says the woman wasn’t even his regular teacher, but someone who swung by to help ease the burden in their classroom.

According to CBS 11, the school’s director of communications said:

“This incident is unacceptable and was immediately and fully investigated by the AISD when it occurred almost a month ago. The district took appropriate disciplinary action…The school has been in constant communication with the student’s mother about this incident and other matters. At no time has mom expressed any concerns about the manner in which this situation was handled to the school or the district.” [Emphasis added]

But according to a Friday report, the mom doesn’t quite agree. The teacher was reportedly suspended and asked to apologize, but Brown would’ve preferred to see her fired.

“I don’t even think she should be teaching if she can’t have the patience to not know that’s not something she is not supposed to do,” Brown concluded.

CBS 11 has more on the story:

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ds006090
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:13am
Why does the race card! No lead in pencil shavings. Kid was sleeping in class. Probably does it often. Teachers these day have no control over the kids because if they dare to discipline any student, they are the ones who get written up or fired. The parents do not take responsibility. I had a teacher who would would wake him up by hitting his shins or knuckles with a paddle. We would all laugh, including the kid he woke up and get back to work! What a little jerk. Parents are worse for allowing this kind of behavior. Get over it!!

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deerjerkydave
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 3:24pm
While it does seem over the top, I doubt the boy suffered any long term damage. When kids don’t learn how to give adults respect at home, it can drive teachers crazy. I’ve noticed that “kids shows” on TV these days frequently portray the adults as idiots and the kids as gifted and intelligent. Give kids a diet of this every day and guess what happens?

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Exiledhunter_6
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 2:08pm
I’m sorry but I don’t understand most of you people on here. Clearly some of you are not parents. If some teacher did that to my kid, that teacher would get punched in the face (my wife would do it if it was a female teacher). That’s MY kid and if was acting out in class and being a jerk or doing other disrespectful things, then you give him/her detention and make them feel stupid in front on their class (you know a dunce cap) and send a note home home to Mom and Dad. When Mom and Dad get the note they will decide on the child’s punishment further, from spanking to grounding and more chores.

When my kid starts going to school, that school is going to hate me because I plan on being a parent that participates in his education. But really this teacher has no business being a teacher, and some of you need to remember Thumper’s words, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” That also means if you have nothing of value to say, please refrain from inject your opinion.

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Inform
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 1:43pm
This kid is probably a little punk who needed a new refreshment..

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toto
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 12:48pm
My mother would have asked me what I had done to cause the teacher to react that way, and that my job in the classroom was to respect the teacher and learn as much as I could.

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pautzb
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 8:59pm
Kids have chewed on pencils for years

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pautzb
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 8:56pm
“I don’t even think she should be teaching if she can’t have the patience to not know that’s not something she is not supposed to do,” Brown concluded.

I think mom needs to be in class with the son

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Wes Hardin
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:08pm
The teacher should be charged with attempted murder. She poured a mixture of finely shaved wood and graphite filings in a defenseless person’s mouth, The ingestion of such a mixture could have caused severe bodily harm or death. The fact that she was only suspended makes the school administration accessories after the fact. They are all accessories in the attempted murder of a child.

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- toto
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 12:50pm
  You obviously have not spent enough time in classrooms chewing on pencils.
  
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American4Ever262
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:09pm
Pencil shavings contain lead….This crazy teacher should have charges filed against her.

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- SpeaksFreely99
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:56am
  Pencil shavings have GRAPHITE, not lead. We haven’t had lead pencils for many years now. I thought they were still lead too, until not too long ago. Someone else’s kid stabbed me in the leg with a pencil, and I had to ask a few questions out of concern for my own health.
  
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FANGS
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:22pm
This is Communist union education. How do you like it ? You keep voting for democrats and Democrats are now Communists. If this however was my son, I’d beat that teacher with a baseball bat.

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Whatmeworry-never
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:46pm
So the Union saves another worthless teacher.

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fastgen1
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:28pm
Obama has embolden these kids. They know they do not have to get grades, they have no consequences in any thing they do, they are the 47% who demand welfare, food stamps, free phones. They know that they will get an $80,000 a year job for the government, that they cannot be fired. SO, why not act anyway they want, they are entitled. The mark of Cain runs strong in these people.

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RaydocX
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 11:09am
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so did the teacher act outside of the standards of teachrs at that school? probably (one hopes)
but…
did the action have a reasonable probability of harming the student? doubtful. humiliating yes. bad tasting, yes… damage?

so the school/ board have to take into account who the teacher is, whether they’ve ben teaching long or not, whether there have been other incdents or not, and whether they have the whole story ie is this kiddo really an innocent or a constant problem that has teachers and kiddos on edge before they ever seee him. is there a racial motive…

we don’t have the whole story. while the act is deplorable, was it this or hauling off and smacking the snot? Schools have simultaneously been pushed by the Left to take over as parents of our children, and prevented from any real discipline of said children, down to not being able to fail kids who need to be held back.

And teachers coming out of liberal educations are unequipped to deal with even the little problems of the real world.

i trust that the school board will get the story and act accordingly… and irregardless, MSM will hear about it, whether from the parents filing suit that not enough was done, or from the teacher outing the other side of the story and providing facts conveniently ignored at present. If neither of those happen, both sides were satisfied with the decision, and so should we be.

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Wolfram
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:05am
Would this child have had this happen to him if he was paying attention, participating in class, and behaving appropriately? NO. Teachers are frustrated and disgusted with disruptive, disrespectful students. If I were to have acted in that manner in class, I would have had to pay some serious consequences when I got home. My parents would have made me apologize to the teacher for my behavior. Students today can swear, curse out teachers, throw tantrums, books or chairs without real consequences. My wife is a teacher in a great school system, but the growing trend of “Inclusion” classes bring LD, ADHD, ODD, Autistic, behavior and discipline cases into every class. Kids now get less and less real instruction and have to endure daily outbursts and disruptions. Discipline is nothing more than a stern talking to… Parents, or more often guardians, of these kids blame the schools and teachers for no discipline, when there is none at home.

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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:57am
If they need to decide whether the teacher should be fired or just suspended, I suggest they compromise and suspend her over fire.

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TIME_THE_AVENGER
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:29am
He either was asleep or being cocky. I hope to hell it was a good load.

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ParryHotter
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:10am
I know I don’t know the context of this story, but it seems teachers are burning out more frequently, or we are just hearing about it more, but I know that I cannot be a teacher if there is no support and that I’d have to deal with the increasing amount of disrespect on my own, I would probably snap too after a few years…

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Eyeball
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:57am
The teacher never would have done that if they still have corporal punishment.

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- TIME_THE_AVENGER
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:29am
  …ding, ding, ding…
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:35am
No matter how disruptive a student is, no teacher has the right to pour pencil shavings into a student’s mouth. The teacher should have just sent him to the principal’s office.

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- ParryHotter
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:12am
  That depends whether or not the principle or administrative staff accept disciplinary students. Having worked at several schools I can tell you that not every school principle deals with behavior issues.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:59am
  ParryHotter
  No, it doesn’t depend on anything. It is never okay to dump pencil shavings in a kid’s mouth.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:07am
You do not as a teacher get to ever pour pencil shavings in any kid’s mouth. Ever. There is no excuse for that. This kid, whatever his problems are, there is a logical solution. But, first let’s examine what this teacher’s problems are because any teacher who does this needs a psychological exam. that kid could have choked. This is unexcusable. Public school teachers have too much power in my estimation and the Public School system breeds discontent and under performance. I was taught if a kid was bored or failing it was the TEACHERS FAULT and I have found this to be TRUe. Stop blaming PARENTS! They work 24-7. Stop putting kids in crappy schools crammed in with 30 kids per class in a school of hundreds or 1000s where they are pushed and shoved and bullied. A 13 year old boy at school is routinely bullied and shoved at school. He only has his MOUTH to defend himself. That is all he has. He has probably had enough of this social cesspool they call “schooling.” it is nothing more than a “social experiment” gone horribly wrong. It allows parents to have 8 hours of time to either work or be kid free. Home School your own kids! Be responsible for their education and stop leaving it up to these god awful people in public school. This is child abuse!
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- ParryHotter
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:19am
  Shore, are you a teacher? I only ask because your response seems like something I would say if I hadn’t been working in education for a few years. Yes, what the teacher did was wrong. And whatever the student did was probably wrong too. Both parties are at fault. One can only be professional for so long until you need a break. It’s the small things that people seem to ignore. Teaching students how to be decent human beings first of all, to respect others. When I was in school, and I’m not that old, my principle spanked me in her office with a big paddle on her wall. During that decade that was the norm.. did I deserve it?.. You bet I did. And you know what… I never did it again.
  
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- Wolfram
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:38am
  Do we know what “pour pencil shavings” means? It was probably a pinch of shavings to wake this discipline problem’s A$$ up. True that the teacher should have never done that and should have had disciplinary action taken against her. I went to a school with 3,500 kids (only grades 10,11,12), classes were 30+ and students did NOT act this way. As much as I loved “The Breakfast Club” at the time, that was the start of the MSM portraying teachers and parents as power hungry buffoons and the kids being socially enlightened and wise beyond their years. I keep going back to who initiated this whole tragic situation… The disrespectful poorly behaved child… THAT begins at HOME.
  
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- SpeaksFreely99
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 12:01pm
  True, even if the kid deserves it, you cannot pour anything at all into a kids mouth…period. What you CAN do is call the parent, and request a conference to address the obnoxious kids behavior. It rarely does any good though, unless the parent gives a crap about the child’s education. Parent participation in discipline for bad classroom behavior is tantamount to their success.
  
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garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:17pm
You have to wonder if there is a history here that we are hearing. However, the teacher should be seeking employment outside the teaching field and not suspended. There should also be civil action taken against her. This was utterly stooooooopid on her part – no matter what kind of behavior the kid does. She definitely is not teacher material.

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The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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- ParryHotter
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:22am
  Some people shouldn’t be teachers… and that’ not a bad thing, it’s just common sense. If it wasn’t for some unions we’d probably have better teachers in schools. Not that what this teacher did deserves termination, just maybe he/she needs a vacation and a new line of work.
  
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ImChiquita
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:09pm
You know, every time The Blaze posts a story about a teacher excessively punishing a student, the majority of conservatives lambast the kid and their parent/s.

I personally know of TWO different people (one man, one woman – and both ten years younger than me) who got their teaching licenses, solely to be in the National Education Association. In other words, a state employee with federal holidays and summers off.

I don’t like either of these people because they didn’t want to teach but to be there for the benefits. The guy especially I despised because he was blatant in expressing his dislike for children and teenagers.

So before once again blaming the youth for incurring such hateful behavior, might I suggest you have SOME semblance of sympathy.

Our American hearts of mercy are rapidly becoming cold and selfish, making us like the rest of the world.

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- ds006090
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:17am
  That’s not true. Our society has become the poor me society. Just because your friends are jerks doesn’t mean all teachers are jerks. The kid was sleeping in class. He should be sent to the principal and stop interrupting class.
  
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Woody4USA
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:05pm
If BO had a son he’d look……..just like sleepy here!

Bloomberg just said pencil shavings are high in fiber and should be on every school lunch menu.

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