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Bibb substitute teacher disrobes in front of fourth-grade class
By Julie Hubbard - jhubbard@macon.com
A substitute teacher who worked her first day Wednesday at Bruce Elementary School took off all her clothes from the waist down in front of a class of fourth-graders, according to school officials.

"They noticed she started to disrobe," said Bibb County schools assistant superintendent Sylvia McGee. "From her waist down, she was totally nude."

McGee said the substitute, whose name was not released, may have been on medication at the time, because after students went to another classroom to tell another teacher, the substitute was found in the classroom "nonresponsive."

"We've never had this to happen," McGee said.

Since October, the substitute had been on an approved list to teach and had been screened in a background check, McGee said.

She has since been pulled from the substitute list.

Bruce students were sent home with letters Wednesday explaining the incident, and a school psychologist talked to the class of 20 students Wednesday and today, McGee said.

"We think it's best she not return to substitute in the district," she said.

Substitute teacher put clothespins on kids' lips

AMANDA, Ohio -- The Amanda-Clearcreek school district in Fairfield County permanently suspended a substitute teacher after confirming that she disciplined four kindergarten boys for talking in class by putting spring-type clothespins on their lips, Superintendent J.B. Dick said yesterday.
Ruth Ann Stoneburner had worked for the past several years as a substitute teacher after retiring from the district as a school nurse, Dick said.

None of the boys was injured in the clothespin punishment, which was delivered the morning of March 26 in a kindergarten class of 18 boys and girls at the Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School, Dick said.

Certainly, the district does not favor this method of discipline, the superintendent said.

"It's unfortunate and it's not something that we at Amanda-Clearcreek support in any way," Dick said, adding that he will report the substitute teacher to the Ohio Department of Education.

Officials learned of the incident after a parent of one of the boys complained.

Principal Mike Johnsen talked to the boys individually and each confirmed that he had had a clothespin put on his upper or lower lip for too much talking, Johnsen wrote in a letter sent home to parents Monday, and other students confirmed it, too.

The substitute teacher confirmed it when Johnsen called her Monday, Johnsen wrote to parents, adding that she will never be used as a substitute in the district again.