A Cincinnati Public Schools teacher who acknowledged putting duct tape over students' mouths to discipline them has resigned.
CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati Public Schools teacher who acknowledged putting duct tape over students’ mouths to discipline them has resigned.Igwekala-Nweke taught math at Clark Montessori High School and Hughes STEM High School and had worked for the district since 2015.Friday that school records show a student told another teacher Igwekala-Nweke put tape over his mouth in December.
Igwekala-Nweke wrote in an email to Hughes Principal Kathy Wright that he taped students’ mouths shut instead of reprimanding them for talking during an exam.Igwekala-Nweke later apologized, saying he allowed “gross rationale to justify gross behavior.”
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