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CONCORD, N.C. ? A mother is calling for a teacher to be fired after the way she said her son was disciplined.

The mother told Channel 9 a teacher used hot sauce on her son to prevent him from touching his nose in class.

The accused teacher used to work at Weddington Hills Elementary in Concord but is now at another school.

The boy's mom is angry over what happened to her son and she wants more action taken.

"She took advantage of him, and she needs to be held accountable," Cindy Joseph said.

She calls the incident that happened earlier this month as outrageous behavior.

Her 11-year-old son DJ has autism and can't speak so while Joseph said he couldn't tell her about what happened in class on Oct. 7.

But the principal caught the teacher putting hot sauce on DJ.

"She was reported of putting hot sauce on DJ's fingers because he kept digging in his nose," Joseph said.

She didn?t believe it at first but the principal told her they found the bottle of hot sauce in the classroom.

"I don't think she should be allowed to be teaching period, with any kids, whether they have a disability or no disability and she should not be allowed to have a license," Joseph said.

School officials wouldn't talk about any specific incident but confirmed the teacher now works at Royal Oaks Elementary.

They also confirmed the teacher was suspended on Oct. 8 -- the day after the alleged incident.

Joseph is glad her son is OK but said the school district shouldn't take any more chances.

"I feel in my heart she doesn't need to teach period,? Joseph said. ?She needs to be held accountable for her actions."
Now, she wants to file abuse charges against the teacher.

I hear hot sauce burns so did he teacher not know about this? I have heard stories about parents putting something sour on their kid's fingers to keep them from thumb sucking and I have heard stories about parents giving their kids hot sauce and some find it abuse and some don't and supposedly this was the parenting norm back in the days. I know nothing about this hot sauce. Perhaps the teacher thought this is what she was doing and thought if the boy had hot sauce on his hands, he wouldn't pick his nose. Yes hot saucing can be done to NT kids too so would the teacher still have done it if the kid were NT and wouldn't stop picking his nose?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotsaucing


I never had this method done to me as a child so it's alien to me.

After doing some reading on this "discipline" I read it can damage your nerves system because it stings and burns. I wonder how this stuff is even used for food if this is so toxic?

I have a feeling this teacher is a sadist, that is all I am saying.

Have you ever your nose come in contact with hot sauce....it is actually painful, and depending on how spicy it could be potentially damaging since the inside of the nose is quite sensitive. Also its not like just a quick pain, it is ongoing....and worse than when you bite into a hot pepper and your mouth burns.

Also though this is a disabled kid, not to mention I am assuming she did this too him in front of all the other kids, essentially singling him out which just increases ostracism in the classroom.

Have you ever your nose come in contact with hot sauce....it is actually painful, and depending on how spicy it could be potentially damaging since the inside of the nose is quite sensitive. Also its not like just a quick pain, it is ongoing....and worse than when you bite into a hot pepper and your mouth burns.

Also though this is a disabled kid, not to mention I am assuming she did this too him in front of all the other kids, essentially singling him out which just increases ostracism in the classroom.

That sounds like something you'd do to your dog to mold it's behavior. Is that how autistics are seen by these people: as animals?

Do you give a dog hot sauce?

Do you give a dog hot sauce?

No, but I recall my parents having to put stuff called Bitter Apple on one of our dog's while growing up, because she had developed a compulsive need to lick on particular spot on her paw till it became raw and bled. So the vet advised it's use, and cleared the problem up. The use of hot sauce on a child brought back memories of that. Again, a child with developmental delay is seen as less than human by using hot sauce the same way.