Autistic child abused at school

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This is horrible autistic or not no child should suffer like this. The kid who was abused is non verbal which the school thinks that this is the easiest target because he can not say what happened.

Oh my god. The more I read about stories like this, the more I am glad I didn't find out that I'm on the spectrum until I was an adult.

It is very sad that this still goes on in this day and age, yet it was the same in my day.The schools do not care except if you are a "jock" or "cheer leader". When I was in school they {the school } shipped me off because a "jock} hit me.
The teachers no longer control the class room. There have been other threads about this sort of thing on WP.
AS people are being attacked everyday and everywhere.

So what's new? I came home from school with bruises from being hit and kicked (and grabed by a teacher) everyday. When I tried to tell the teacher what happened they punished me and not the person responsible.

I think schools should have bouncers.

Has anyone seen "Drillbit Taylor", that crappy Owen Wilson movie?

If you are desperate to survive high school,
find a homeless guy who was in the military!

Anyway, schools always exploit students in special ed, regardless
of what disorder the student has. Schools see special ed students
as the easiest to exploit because how vulnerable the student is
emotionally, psychologically, and sometimes physically.

I remember my friend Colin {not his real name}.
He has autism, but is verbal. When we first met in high school,
our homeroom teacher exploited us {me and Colin}
because we were vulnerable to other students.
Another teacher got in on the act, mainly targeting Colin.

I noticed this and told Colin's parents.
Colin was immediately removed from
my high school and began home-schooling.
To get even, the other teacher asked
other students to spread rumors about me.

For the rest of high school, I never got out
of "Rumor Land" although some students
tried to help me. In my senior year,
the other teacher left to teach
at a nearby high school.

The last time I saw Colin was last summer.

My son, who is a highly articulate and verbal, high functioning aspie has been abused at school both physically and emotionally, by pupils mainly, but also staff. If this goes on with someone whose IQ is over 160 who is able to speak then goodness knows what goes on with non verbal kids.

Sad thing is that even when the victims can talk they often don't, because they think it's their fault. I know I used to.

I'm at a lost for words here.

The way those staff members are putting up a fight that it was wrong of the parents to put a microphone on their kids is quite insulting. An autistic child has no means at all of communicating to others what happens to them outside of their parents care. In a case like this a hidden microphone was necessary. Good thing they got the media on the family's side and are exposing the staff for the irresponsible cowards they are.

I remember back in middle school I was always picked on endlessly. There was one kid in particular that made my life hell. When things got bad enough to go before the principal, he told nothing but lies and the principal ended up believing him and punishing me. This story is just another sad truth unfortunately...that this kind of stuff always has and always will happen. Thank God this was caught though. Alot of children aren't so lucky.

same old story, NT's using autistic people as punching bags