THE PADDLE, CIVILIZATION, AND SANITY: "A seventh-grade teacher in Missouri has been charged with duct-taping one student to the desk and taping the mouth of another student shut. This does not sound like the best pedagogical technique, but the press reports are strangely silent on what the children may have done to provoke this response.

I have been a teacher and still teach a little class at our office, and I can say frankly that I wish I had thought of duct tape"

(Via Hard Right!.)