An effort by a substitute teacher to quiet her chatty students has cost her her job. The officials at Amanda-Clearcreek school district in Fairfield County permanently suspended Ruth Ann Stoneburner after she admitted to using clothespins on the mouths of four students to silence them. In a letter sent to parents this week, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen said that each of the four boys had confirmed having a spring-type clothespin placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class.

Police arrested two eighth-graders on felony charges after they allegedly attempted to poison their science teacher by adding a fabric freshener into her soda. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the boy and girl allegedly added the harmful ingredient in 51-year-old Jacqueline Hutchins's drink but she did not suffer any harm. She immediately noticed a different taste when she sipped her Pepsi on Friday.

An eighth grader from Wilson Middle School has been suspended and might face expulsion for putting urine in a teacher's coffee pot, Muncie Community Schools officials have said. The act was brought to the knowledge of school authorities on Friday after the teacher noticed a strange odor in the coffee. Another student who overheard classmates discussing the act also reported it to the officials.

A substitute music teacher from an elementary school in Boulder, Colorado has been arrested after she whacked a 10-year-old student on the head with a viola bow. Carla Shinners, who is better known by the nickname "Mrs. Grumpy Lady" is also accused of swearing in front of students. The 63-year-old handed herself to police Tuesday after an arrest warrant was issued on her name. The incident took place on February 12 when Shinners, a teacher for more than 30 years in the district, was interrupted by a call on her own cell phone and she then began swearing.

A Milan teacher was fired from her job after she allegedly used scissors to cut the tongue of a talkative 7-year-old pupil to silence him. As she held a pair of scissors in her hand, the 22-year-old teacher apparently told a boy to "Stick out your tongue so I can cut it. That way you'll stop talking!" She then slashed his tongue so badly that he needed five stitches to close the wound, the Il Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. The child's family, who hail from North Africa have filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last week's incident.