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Teacher gets probation for taping special ed student to chair

July 16th, 2008

From the Chicago Daily Herald, Chicago Tribune:

A substitute teacher has been sentenced to probation, a $1,500 fine and 80 hours of community service for taping an 8-year-old student to his chair when he would not sit still and then putting masking tape over his mouth.

Matthew Konetski had been convicted of aggravated battery and unlawful restraint in the March 2006 incident. A first-year substitute with no special education training, Konetski was left alone with special education students without the two aides normally assigned to the class.

“I was just trying to come up with a way to deal with a situation I didn’t know how to deal with,” he said.

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