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Teacher Finds a Creative Way to Get a Paid Leave of Absence by Doing Something Dumb

April 01, 2014, 12:14 AM

If you're a school teacher looking for a creative way to get a paid leave, just ask Brian Sullivan.

Sullivan, a band teacher at Jefferson High School in Monroe, is on a paid leave pending an investigation after he allegedly duct-taped a student's ankles to a chair to correct her posture, Fox 2 reports.

Some fellow students tell FOX 2's Andrea Isom the teacher just did it as a joke and did not mean anything cruel by it. 

"[The student] wasn't upset. She just kind of sat there and was like, 'Okay,' and just dealt with it. It was another student that actually told and had a problem with it," says Andrew Poppenhager, a fellow band student. He says she stayed taped to the chair for about ten minutes at the end of class.
 


Read more:  Fox 2


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