CA Preschool Teacher Fired After Applying Mood-Calming Patches To Students Without Consent

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South El Monte, California, parents were shocked to learn last week that a teacher at a day care facility allegedly applied mood-calming stickers known as “Zen Patches” on preschoolers without the parents’ consent.

FOX 11 Los Angeles reported that parents of students at Options for Learning Head Start were outraged and are now demanding teacher accountability and child safety.

Two of the children affected by the patches, a 3-year-old and 4-year-old, told officials about the placement of the patches in interviews.

Meanwhile, parents expressed their dismay about the situation to the station, reporting that stickers were placed on every child in the classroom, then removed before the students were dismissed for the day.

“We were surprised and really upset because you bring your kids, and you expect it to be good, you know,” parent Vicky Cano told the news station.

The news broke when a mother of one of the preschoolers showed up unannounced at the school, where a teacher allegedly used mood-calming patches to control the children and make them sleepy.

Parents also became suspicious when their children began to display behavioral changes and disruptions in their sleeping patterns.

Options for Learning Head Start CEO Paul F. Pulver said, “their distribution violated our policy requiring parental decision-making and consent on all such matters. The employee who provided the stickers has been fired.”

Despite the teacher being fired, parents of the students told FOX 11 they want more.

“Firing her is not good enough at all,” Stephanie Rodriguez told the news station. “I want justice. She should be in jail.”

California preschool teacher fired after applying mood-calming patches to students without consent

South El Monte, California, parents were shocked to learn last week that a teacher at a day care facility allegedly applied mood-calming stickers known as “Zen Patches” on preschoolers …

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What a hippie dippy thing to do.