I read this and watched the video yesterday on Yahoo news. I'm afraid if it had happened to my ds, there would have been some blood split. The first time a teacher calls a child a "b*sterd" they need to be looking for new employment elsewhere and their license revoked! The state of affairs in the public school system is very sad indeed when a parent has the wire their special needs child in order to find out what is really going on during that dear child's day!
This makes me completely SICK! How can you still ahve that teacher TEACH OTHERS when they act that way!!! Whe I was in high school my brother was still in Middle school, and I remember my parents ahving to visit the school several times because Trevor threw chairs, desks, yelled, screamed and so on. Well, come to find out he was being grabbed by the wrists (bruises) and being put in the closet to calm him down. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. I imagine it was my son who was asking if he would still be able to "see Dad after Mom" and someone told him "NO!". He would be thrown into anxiety, sadness, and he would be EXTREMELY upset! Oh my Lord, it just makes me SOB the way these kids are treated!!! I agree with Marty. Blood would be spilt and heads would roll, and God forbid if I couldn't hold me husband back (and I'm certain that I wouldn't be able to...or would try...) there would be nothing left of them. Don't mess with DH's Little boy! (Paddy calls him "Best Friend, Daddy!) This video just reminds me why I homeschool Paddy.
Here's the worst part: This dad only wired the boy because the school was sending home reports of the boy misbehaving. This father had the instinct to think that there might be a good reason. Many parents are brainwashed into believing that the school is always right: if little Timmy misbehaves, little Timmy is to blame. So how many times does this sort of thing happen every day unnoticed?!
Sending your child to school, you just never know what they will be exposed to. Can you imagine finding out that this horrible teacher is now your kids teacher, because she was only transferred, and not fired? That is a horrible practice and should be abolished. The teachers unions have WAY too much power!
Aimee, I couldn't have said it better. It is completely horrible what they do to these children. My son had the same experience in school. That is why we hs our children. The school even paid for a year of counseling for our son. The worst part wasn't with my son but my daughter. She became such a "nervous nelly" when it came to her brother. Her aniexity is still high over it. Its just horrible. I didn't wire my child and i don't have the proof that these parents have. But I don't think I need it. My kids are home now safe and sound
I haven't even finished watching the video and I'm in tears for those kids and their families. Friends of our have a severly autistic daughter. They were told C would probably never talk or be toilet trained yet with a lot of hard work they had C speaking key words and semi toilet trained. Then one day her aide locked C in a small empty room because she wouldn't go to assembly (she didn't have to, it was on her list of optional activities). Her mum arrived early didn't see her at assembly so went to classroom and found her daughter locked in that tiny empty room in the fetal position and in complete shut down mode (competely withdrawn into herself, not responding to her mum, not moving). C stopped talking and using the toilet and is still like that a decade later.
Why don't more parents see that the public school system is failing our children? I absolutely refuse to put my child in a situation where things like this can happen!
A few years ago our mentally handicapped son came home from school in about the 6th grade and told us a young man was picking on him at school. Bill said the kid was calling him names and threatening him. When I went to the school I was calm and told them what was happening. I told them that Bill did not lie and he was afraid of Nick. The VP of the school looked at me and said, "Why, Nick wouldn't do that!" Threat was all he had to offer on the subject. I was so angry but managed not to smack the idiot. Turned out Nick was picking on more than just our son and eventually Bill and Nick turned out to be friends. Thankfully a teacher believed me and Bill and helped us where the VP failed us. Bill had trouble expressing himself due to a stuttering problem and when something happened at school the kids learned they could say Bill did it and the teacher would talk to him and he would get frustrated and cry if he was being falsely accused. They would see that as guilt and he got blamed for a lot when he was little. I had to fight many battles for that kid. He is grown now and still as honest as the day is long. He holds no ill feelings toward anyone who was mean to him and it such a joy to us. I hope the boy in this case does not continue to bare the mental scars of the horrible people who called themselves teachers.
This was miserable to read about. I haven't even listened to the recordings, I don't know if I can bear it. Emjay, that story was heartbreaking.
I never heard anything. I am assuming that the apology was a personal one, only for him and the teacher, because the public school can do no wrong. Ugh.