Teacher taunts Autistic Child

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PRIMARY school teacher filmed herself mocking an autistic boy who got his head stuck in a classroom chair. She even emailed the incriminating video to school
The teacher used her mobile phone to record a 10-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome as he struggled to free himself from a chair may be fired.
Nicole McVey, who teaches the fifth grade at Oaktree Elementary School in Goodrich, Michigan, is heard mocking the youngster, asking him, “Wanna be tasered?”
Even the school principal Michael Ellis gets in on the act, telling the child: “It’s not really an emergency in their book,” after Ms McVey states that maintenance is on the way.
According to the New York Daily News, Ms McVey then emailed the incriminating video to school colleagues — presumably thinking they would find it funny — who forwarded it to school administrators.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parent ... 6839360983

I don't understand why she is filming the kid instead of trying to help him. And I also don't understand what is funny about threatening to tazer him. She doesn't seem to be a very nurturing person to me.

Yes, this seems to be the consensus in the 80+ responses to the article...it is somewhat surprising that the principal of the school has been stood down (for claiming the matter was not an emergency) but not the teacher involved?

^^I expect the teacher thought it was funny, and recorded the video as an amusing example of the trials and tribulations she must endure on the job...

I can easily imagine my son doing something like that, and I can easily imagine the teacher at his old school taunting him. She hated DS, and she hated my husband and I for standing up for him.

I can't believe those parents in the video were defending this teacher! That could easily have been my autistic daughter. Thankfully, she has special ed teachers who are trained to deal properly with autistic children.

Why is it again that autistic people are the ones who supposedly lack empathy?

This teacher should be FIRED as soon as possible!

For those of you who watch the video, take note of the many parents in the school board meeting who support the teacher. One lady even has the audacity to claim the teacher just has a sense of humor? really!!

Sounds like other parents are being selfish in not wanting their kids education disrupted by having a new teacher. It probably never dawned on them that their kid might be next on the teacher's i-phone of shame!

The parents reaction is the thing that sticks out the most for me. Something similar happened in Idaho last year when students punched, teased a stemming student filmed it and put it online. Teachers did nothing to stop it, principle did nothing and parents backed the bullies.
http://whotv.com/2013/11/19/teen-bullie ... justified/

Similar isn't it. In this case the principal has been coached by a legal team to answer in the defensive. I know for some years that teachers in private schools have perpetrated bullying on kids using other students in order to make life difficult for students whom they view as disruptive to the rest of the class (such s those with autism).

she needs sacking and a ban for life from working with children and vulnerable adults,oldskool teachers have no place in education today, they all need booting out of the education system.

When i read the yahoo comments on the story i got even more pissed off. Seems that too many people think mentally disabled people are evil,useless brats. I also found it terrible that the parents supported this b***h. I'm really starting to hate people more and more each day!

The only good thing about that is the people posting on Yahoo are often the dregs of humanity, and so otherwise couldn't get their idiot bigotry read by anyone save on the comment section. These are the same idiots who post the most vile racism and homophobia on Yahoo, and so hardly have any credibility.

This is a thing that always disturbs me: how can one tell how representative these people are? There is evidence of these sorts of views everywhere. Is it a dedicated, prolific fringe of nasties, or are they a relatively high percentage of the population?

I am thinking also of Richard Berendzen, a brilliant academic with degrees from MIT and Harvard, at one time a TA to Carl Sagan and President of American University when he was busted for harassing people with nasty, obscene phone calls. In his case, it seems he was mostly a great guy, but some fragment of him was twisted and nasty, possibly the result of traumatic molestation in his childhood.

Is this what is going on with all these nasty people? They are sometimes decent enough and sometimes in the grip of their darker inner parts?

I just don't have clue why so much of this is out there and it is upsetting when I see presented as socially acceptable in situations like this. How can they think it is OK to defend the teacher? What is wrong with them that they have no compassion for the boy and reserve their sympathy for the teacher? Is this empathy?

I couldn't agree more! It seems that more people are believing that the mentally disabled are just more Adam Lanzas in the making, along with parents & teachers taking pride in "anti-mentally disabled" views.