Daycare teacher reportedly tied kids to chairs

So what is it with daycares these days? Last week we had 29 kids crammed into a van and left alone in a drugstore parking lot, and now there's news that the pastor's wife at a church daycare tied several kids to their chairs.

It happened at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, where the pastor's wife — who is also a teacher in the Mother's Day Out program — reportedly tied kids to their chairs using neck scarves. And when the MDO director saw what had happened, she reportedly did ... nothing. "(It's) unacceptable, inappropriate, it's dangerous. It's extremely dangerous. This is not why parents send their children to this school to have happen to them," Pam Welkel, a parent, said.

The state is investigating the reports: "To restrain a child is not appropriate. We will talk to any facility or day care about how they discipline the children and what is OK," Gwen Carter with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services told KPRC. If the state finds violations of licensing policy, the daycare program could be shut down, but Gethsemane pastor John Cain said he doubts that'll happen. "I'm confident that once the report is out, we'll find out that it was really not much of a story," Cain said. Because, you know, every kid gets tied to a chair sometimes.