A Toronto elementary teacher who screamed at her students and gave them tape to cover their mouths has received a slap on the wrist from the Ontario College of Teachers.

Mi-Hyang Park was admonished, in writing, for both “verbally and physically mistreating students, by, among other things, screaming at them, giving them Scotch tape and asking them to place it over their mouths or under their feet, and placing gum in or under a student’s shoe.”

Park admitted to “inappropriate use of tape” as well as “inappropriate classroom management and discipline strategies,” and agreed to take courses in classroom management, conflict resolution and anger management.

The College is keeping details of Park’s behaviour secret. The College says this is because her case was heard before it implemented a more open disciplinary process earlier this year — after a Star investigation uncovered serious issues in its then-secretive dealings.

“We can’t provide any other details related to that case,” other than the information published in Professionally Speaking, the college’s magazine, said College spokesperson Brian Jamieson.

That means information about her case and penalty will not show up on her public profile on the College’s website. Her profile currently says she’s a member in “good standing.”

The Toronto District School Board said it could not confirm if Park still works for the board, and at which school, though a spokesperson said the board did investigate the case and reported the allegations to the College.

The Star, however, discovered that she is now teaching at Highfield Junior School, in the city’s northwest-end.

She did not respond to numerous attempts to contact her at home and school. Park’s husband, Peter, told a Star photographer outside of their large Etobicoke home that his wife was “an extremely caring and considerate person.” He also said, “You don’t know how hard it is for teachers.”

The school board also said it could not confirm if high school science teacher Deoraj Narine, another Toronto teacher who was recently disciplined by the College, remains on the job.

The College suspended him for three months for professional misconduct and verbally abusing students after an 18-year-old pregnant student said he called her a “s---head,” and told her that, “had she listened to him, she ‘would have had it taken out.’ ”

He was transferred to another school, where students again complained about his behaviour, saying he “yelled and swore at them, told them to ‘shut up,’ ” called one student a “bastard,” and on one occasion told a student to “shut the f--- up” in front of classmates, the College’s disciplinary committee heard. His classroom was also described as “chaotic.”

The decision noted that Narine worked with “vulnerable students.”

The Toronto board had disciplined Narine for his behaviour, including a 10-day suspension, the College was told.

On top of the three-month suspension, the College ordered him to take courses in classroom management and sensitivity.

His case is posted on his member profile.

Narine, who has a PhD from Dalhousie University, became a teacher in 1992. Park graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983, but didn’t become a certified teacher until 2005.

Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.

Disciplinary decision

Text of the summary in the case of Mi-Hyang Park, a Toronto teacher disciplined by the Ontario College of Teachers:

Member: Mi-Hyang Park, OCT

Registration No.: 485410

Decision: Written admonishment

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The Investigation Committee ratified an agreement resulting in the written admonishment of Mi-Hyang Park, an elementary school teacher with the Toronto DSB, for verbally and physically mistreating students by, among other things, screaming at them, giving them Scotch tape and asking them to place it over their mouths or under their feet, and placing gum in or under a student’s shoe. The member agreed to complete an Additional Qualification course and the classroom management training, conflict resolution training and anger management counselling that she was required to complete by her board. Park also agreed to the publication of a summary of the complaint and its resolution, including her name.

She admitted to using inappropriate classroom management and discipline strategies, and, specifically, to the inappropriate use of tape.

Professionally Speaking, December 2012