More abuse of Autism spectrum kids!

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Just wanted to give you a heads-up about an article I just came across. A special needs teacher is in trouble over abusing the kids in her class, including Autistic ones. The 2 class aids let her get away with it for many months, before they finally got their act together and reported this sicko! Here is the link to the article--if it doesn't " click", just copy and paste it into your address bar, then hit ENTER. (Yes, I know most people know to do that, but my mid 80s year old father has trouble figuring it out, and he has all his marbles. He's just not very tech savvy, but then neither am I.) So now here's the link:

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/06/20 ... Lid=171664

This sicko needs to do some serious jail time, and the special needs classes do need to have video surveillance!

If you care about your kids you should really try to home school them!

Seriously this just makes me want to kill the people responsible for the abuse, I know legally there are issues with that which I admit tends to hold me back.

Nothing surprises me. I'd like to reply to an ignorant commenter but it looks like I can't do so anonymously.
Edit: Or can I? Looks like other people did but it also wants to access my Facebook.

This is heartbreaking. If anyone ever did anything like this to my son I would do it right back to them. I don't understand how anyone can be so inhumane. It terrifies me not knowing what could happen to my son when I'm not around.

Well now I've looked at what the abuse was, and I am even more angry.

sounds like the teacher was drugged out of her mind. don't let one sick person make you hate the human race.

Drugs or not children should not be abused. I posted a messege on facebook...linked one of the articles and basically said if the woman responsible reads it she should know she is a horrid person for abusing children.

That is awful...
I support the use of cameras in a special ed setting, useful to detect behaviour like this, but also incredibly useful from a therapy point of view. Can't count how many times something has happened at school, where the teachers want advice from us (the parents) or therapists... it would be so useful to be able to pull up the video of what is going on, to see the exact situation.
Home schooling is a wonderful option, for some, not all. As much as I'd want to do it, I couldn't. I would totally burn out and that wouldn't be good for my kids or me. Also, for my eldest I think it's important that he is around other people, to learn to communicate with others, independance and social skills. Unfortunately, I can't be there every minute of every day and he needs to learn that. I trust my son's teacher, she is a good one.
I also have to say I have met so many wonderful and dedicated teachers and aides over the years, I would never ever suspect them of behaviour like this, I do believe they are in it for the love of the kids and would never hurt them. It seems this one was really messed up, I wonder how long it took the aides to speak up, it seems it wasn't on the first day that something abusive or inappropriate happened, that is as big a problem.

I hate this world. I read the story and it brought tears to my eyes. I am glad that I am not in school anymore. I was mainly in special ed. I am hearing more and more cases of teachers abusing autistic children. I hope the teacher goes to jail for a long time. She is an awful human being. I had verbal abuse from both teachers and students. The teachers in my school when I was in middle school I had teachers call me stupid, dumb, and ret*d. That wasn't all when someone stabbed me with a pen the teacher took the bullies side and I was suspended. My mom kept going into this awful school and eventually I went to a special school. I know the story was obviously more extreme but teachers verbally and physically abusing their students I think it happens all the time and is getting worse. At least I don't have to go to hellish school again. Did anyone hear about the other awful case of where a 68 year old bus monitor getting verbally abused by stupid dumb middle schoolers? I believe there are more bad people rather than good.