Teacher likely will be fired

A Chicago teacher faces dismissal after wrapping masking tape around a special education student to keep him in his chair when he wouldn't sit down, authorities said. The teacher was told Wednesday not to report back to Medgar Evers School on the city's South Side, Chicago Public Schools spokesman Michael Vaughn said. The teacher was in a classroom of four or five students Tuesday when one 9-year-old boy would not sit down. The teacher restrained him with the tape, Vaughn said. The student wiggled free after several minutes, Vaughn said. Three students reported the incident and police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services responded, Vaughn said. "It appears the allegations will be substantiated and we will fire her," Vaughn said.