Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp, Teacher, Suspended For Making Students Wear Dog Collar As Punishment (VIDEO)

Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp, a 47-year-old Zephyrhills High School science teacher in Zephyrhills, Fla., is under fire after photos of her students wearing dog collars as punishment for bad behavior surfaced on Facebook, WTSP-TV reports.

Dubbed the "cone of shame" by the teacher, the photos are causing equal amounts of outrage and laughter from parents and students in the district. Bailey-Cutkomp reportedly used the cone for disciplinary infractions like drinking soda in class.

"I was disgusted, very disgusted," one parent told the station. "...That's a human, not an animal. You're not spaying or neutering that person."

Others, including student Tanisha Medina, thought it was a harmless joke.

"She just did it as a joke and said she was gonna punish us by doing it," Medina told WTSP. "But she asked us first and we were all laughing and joking around."

Pasco County Schools Superintendent Heather Fiorentino has suggested Bailey-Cutkomp should be fired for violating the state's ethics codes -- a decision some teachers are protesting.

"Whatever mistake Ms. Bailey-Cutkomp made, it was a mistake that I doubt she will make again," ninth-grade teacher James Washington wrote in a letter to the school board, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "Furthermore, what I have witnessed at ZHS certainly makes me believe that she has much to offer the students."

According to the Times, Bailey-Cutkomp later told investigators that it was "probably" a bad idea to discipline students with the collar.

The teacher is on unpaid suspension following Fiorentino's recommendation but, according to MSNBC, she has requested a special hearing and wants to return to the school.

Nevertheless, Fiorentino maintains that the teacher should be fired, saying in her letter to Bailey-Cutkomp that her actions showed "extremely poor judgement," according to WTSP-TV.

"I am stunned that you would put dog collars on students for any reason," Fiorentino wrote.

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Comments

[dolphins1441]

09:21 AM on 01/25/2013

lmao!

[golfisnotasport6]

07:15 PM on 09/29/2012

Many parents these days don't want to discipline their kids, and use school as a form of daycare. Now we have parents who don't want the schools to discipline their kids, either. I suppose we should just let people run around as they see fit, eh?

When I was in high school (graduated in 2002) I had a teacher who would throw chalkboard erasers at me when I acted up. Sometimes I'd also get them if someone else acted up just because I thought it all was amusing. The teacher also had a soft plastic mallet that made a squeaky noise and would use that to hit misbehaving students. Her class was among the best-behaved that I attended and whenever I got an eraser thrown at me I knew I'd been asking for it. Should we go have that teacher fired? How about we arrest her? Come on, people, lighten up. Fifty years ago kids would get beaten with rulers and paddles and wear dunce caps for misbehavior. I think this is pretty light in comparison, as well as thoroughly amusing.

[foxr62551]

07:12 PM on 09/23/2012

I just graduated high school and kids in my class use to do stupid things like this. I dont see anything wrong with it, i rather get the cone of shame than a blistered butt like many other schools do. I remember when my classmate pertended to be in trouble by sitting in a desk by the teacher with his head down. we were all laughing even the student and the teacher. I know many of my classmates who would ask the teacher to put it on during class just fo fun. its funny not wrong

[pclare]

03:48 AM on 08/24/2012

Key words: "she asked us first."

I am a teacher, and I know that the majority of my students would find this hilarious rather than shameful in any way. I guarantee there were kids begging to wear the Cone of Shame even though they did nothing wrong.

She's using humor to make a point, and kids will respond to that a lot better than if they simply get yelled at or punished in some "legitimate" way.

The fact that she asked their permission proves that she had absolutely no intention of actually "shaming" someone. This was not forced on anyone, and I'm sure she would have known which students would not be able to handle this form of playful "punishment."

[kasa5051]

12:21 PM on 07/27/2012

I thiink it ashame a student can treated this way and the teacher only get 3 days off with pay or without pay.If I was a principle I would fired their on the spot and teach the class until a replacement is brought in. Principles with help save a teacher job who does wrong beacuse they don't want to have to teach that class, I had a principle tell me that he's running the school like he runs his house and will treat the children the way he treated his son.Do these kind of people need to be in a school setting?

[pclare]

03:52 AM on 08/24/2012

You'll never be a princiPAL unless you learn to spell it correctly. Cone of Shame for you!

[kasa5051]

11:36 AM on 07/27/2012

I think any teacher who the act the way I have read about thinks it ok to behave that way should be fired and never teach again ever I wonder how would they feel if it happen to their kid, kids, grandkid, nieces and nephew. These teacher who wants to go back to work should have thought about their money before committing the acts that now has them begging for their job back why do they want their job back? so they can continue treating students that way. And to the people who thinks it was a harmless joke I would love to see them agree to a dog collar being placed on their head and posted.

[Kayden Heron]

06:02 PM on 01/11/2013

Have you seen High School kids these days? They would all LOVE to wear the "cone of shame" because it's funny to them

[Kitten Auspicious]

02:13 PM on 06/26/2012

Why is this any worse than ye olde "dunce hat?" When I was in 7th grade if anyone wanted to use the bathroom during this one class you had to ask for the "bathroom pass" which was a TOILET SEAT you had to wear around your neck emblazoned with "Mr. Dixon's Poo Poo Pass" ... designed to encourage kids to go to the bathroom *before* class started. One kid dared to ask for it in my class. *We* thought it was hilarious and so did the student wearing it! But that was the 70's when parents were less uptight i guess. Today Mr. Dixon would probably have been sued.

[Geeg10]

10:30 AM on 09/20/2012

That's horrible! What about students who have bladder issues or other genuine reasons to use the bathroom? What if they couldn't use the bathroom prior to class due to all types of valid reasons? Oh wait! I know! Let's embarrass them so they will be so horrified they'll never want to use the bathroom during that class. Wow! Teacher of the year material there.

[Kitten Auspicious]

12:57 PM on 09/20/2012

Like I said, all us kids thought it was hilarious, no one thought it was cruel or oppressive, at least not to my knowledge. A kid could avoid wearing it simply by being late to class if s/he had to go that bad. The kid in my class who asked for it was wearing it with pride because everyone was laughing and thinking he was brave and cool.

[d jane do]

07:45 PM on 06/25/2012

I would never do this to a student!

On that note, what partakes between students and their teacher can be seen in a whole different light when taking it out of its context. I've taught middle school and there have been times when things have been said or done that if some one from outside heard or saw, I'd have been in the principal's office. And believe me I have had to do some fast talking a few times.

Clearly from the video, it appears that the students were okay with this, that their was no humiliation and even thought it was funny. If this teacher's students feel that this is unjust and feel that what the teacher did was a joke or silliness, they need to support their teacher and go to her hearing, speak to her lawyer about being a character witness. Just to add, in the story and video, no students were complaining or voiced they were shamed.

[kasa5051]

11:49 AM on 07/27/2012

U can not see the reaction on the students face, so how can U think the student was ok with it. Would U like one being placed on Ur head? rather anyone else thought it was funny or joking around. Teachers and Principles that do not have children learning and safety at heart makes it very, very,very hard for the GOOD TEACHERS/PRINCIPLES to continue being consider GOOD TEACHERS/PRINCIPLES. I know of a Teachers/Princples that will retain a child because of behaivor issues. If a teacher can not handle behaviors issues in a proffessional matter then quit.

[reformtxcs]

10:07 AM on 06/22/2012

The teacher should be fired.....come on she was fully aware and willfully engaged in a method to "shame" a kid into submission. If a teacher isn't willing or lacks the capacity to speak with the parents, then she should not be in a classroom.

Most kids will remain silent or even try to laugh off the shame because of fear of more abuse if they don't go along with it. That should never be construed as accepting of the act of wearing a dog collar.

[d jane do]

07:47 PM on 06/25/2012

Did you watch the video and read the article?

[Bike Commuter]

08:35 PM on 06/20/2012

I just stumbled across this, and take exception to referring to it as a "dog collar" without noting in the text that it is a reference to a kid's movie. The text of the video makes it sound like the teacher was putting a leash on the students or something..

Squirrel!

It is clearly an attempt to combine the idea of a timeout with a humorous scene from the Pixar movie UP! That is why the "collar" is one of those plastic cones, because that is what the dog in the movie refers to as "the cone of shame". That isn't exactly "treating a kid like a dog". It sounds like it was far more more lighthearted than it is being made out to be.

[kasa5051]

11:55 AM on 07/27/2012

Since you feel like there was no harm done, woudl you let some put a collar around ur neck regarless to where the idea came from.

[Bike Commuter]

03:22 PM on 07/27/2012

Do you actually think that would bother me?

[kasa5051]

11:51 PM on 07/27/2012

What ever!

[Kara Oneil]

02:24 PM on 05/30/2012

That is awful, and could cause a good student to withdrawl good behaviors. This is wrong, its not funny, and she is a person of authority to these kids. Then she posts the pics on the internet for all to see? She is nutz, and she needs to be fired. If someone made my son do that, that collar would be around her neck within minutes of me hearing it.

[kasa5051]

11:55 AM on 07/27/2012

I feel the same, I know my 13 year old would not have sat there and let a teacher put a collar around her neck. I would have wrap that collar around the teacher neck and anyone else who thought it funny or joking around.

[jel3800]

01:20 PM on 07/28/2012

good students with good behavior would not be mocking the classroom rules by drinking soda in class

[Linzoid22]

01:45 PM on 05/30/2012

Was it a joke or punishment? Usually those 2 things dont go together. If it was just a joke, then how would that be an effective form of punishment? She just created more of a circus in her own classroom which was what she was trying to eliminate. Chosen by the students or not, shaming a student into behaving isn't the right way to do it. Detention is a punishment, but isnt a "joke"... she shouldve stuck with the punishment guidelines that have worked for teachers for generations. People can say shes a wonderful teacher all they want, but she obviously displays questionable judgement in the classroom...

[kasa5051]

11:58 AM on 07/27/2012

I know that right, Now she concern about her rights what about the students rights? She should be fired and a collar placed around her neck and place on the internet and she should also be made to stand out on the street holding a sign saying this is what happen when U mistreat a student.

[montanasian]

09:24 PM on 05/29/2012

Ok, probably not the best decision to do this in this camera ready society.
My teacher came down the aisle picked me up in my desk/chair, picked me up probably a foot, then dropped me. Thud! I deserved it; I was a smart-ass. But also we had that relationship that he knew he could do that in that particular class at that point in time. Today he probably wouldnt done to the environment. He was one of my favorite teachers. Probably nothing mean here with this teacher either. This isn't probably of the malicious type.

[d jane do]

07:56 PM on 06/25/2012

I agree with you, totally. Outsiders don't always understand the social environment in a particular classroom. This teacher probably didn't use it in all her periods, probably just the one because of the context of which the collar was defined.

I've had classes that I had to treat very differently. One class, I had to be tough and hard talking -- kindness is weakness attitude. And, the following class, if I raised my voice, I'd have tears. I kid you not!

[kasa5051]

12:23 PM on 07/27/2012

I feel sorry U not realizing U were being bullied.

[montanasian]

03:09 PM on 07/27/2012

Thanks doc for that great government psych evaluation-obama type care to come. 

[environmentalista]

08:55 PM on 05/15/2012

The Cone of Shame! Right out of the movie "Up!". Do they have the talking collars with the changeable voices too?

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What...Were the kids licking themselves at school?