Ohio ? A substitute teacher’s tool for silencing chatty kindergartners – clothespins – doesn’t wash with school officials.

Four boys said spring-type clothespins were placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School Principal Mike Johnsen wrote in a letter to parents this week.

Ruth Ann Stoneburner confirmed to Johnsen that she had used the clothespin discipline March 26, he said.

Stoneburner will not work again in the Amanda-Clearcreek district and was being reported to the state education department, Superintendent J.B. Dick said Wednesday.