Posted on 04/21/2017 8:18:44 PM PDT by Morgana
CNN)When John Haygood, a 10-year-old boy with autism, was arrested last week at a school in Florida, he kept repeating that he didn't know what was happening, as seen in shaky cellphone video taken by his mother. "I don't know what's going on. I don't understand," he cried out. In the video, his hands are cuffed as two officers escort him to the back seat of a police car. His mother, Luanne Haygood, followed behind them while recording the incident on her phone. In the video, John appears distraught, and yells some profanities.
Luanne is heard in the video speaking to the officers, "Excuse me, do you have any paperwork or anything you can say to me?"
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Guess they could not just send him to the principal's office and bust his butt like in the old days.
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This nonsense for arresting little kids has got to stop.
I agree. They have lost control. Parents just need to homeschool their kids.
They CUFFED a 10 year old?
Words fail me.
Schools can’t handle situations like this properly.
The new stupid model of putting ‘special needs’ kids into regular classes is a horrendous mistakes. Teachers spend 90% of their time with one kid while the rest suffer.
A child? At the request of a para- professional? A warrant? By a real judge?
We are in trouble as a country.
He is autistic AND 10 years old, for crying out loud, all autistic kids are not that violent, but it happens. An arrest will just make it worse. Ignorant schools, more ignorant law enforcement.
From the article:
John, a student at Okeechobee Achievement Academy in Okeechobee, Florida, was arrested at the school last week for felony battery against a paraprofessional in an October incident, allegedly punching and kicking his paraprofessional, which left scratches and marks, according to an incident report from the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident occurred after John was being disruptive in class, throwing paper balls around the classroom and hitting other students, the report said. His paraprofessional asked him to go to time out. When John refused, the paraprofessional attempted to remove him, and that’s when John attacked, the report said.
Maybe the kid’s violent assault and battery — hitting other students, punching, kicking, leaving scratches and marks — is what got him into trouble with the law.
What, exactly, is a “paraprofessional”?
A janitor with spare time?
The mother *says* he’s “autistic.” That’s not necessarily true. Just trying to find out what’s true ...
If you already have trouble relating to other kids or are shy then this does not help.
This mainstreaming policy is not just to any of the kids
>”Excuse me, do you have any paperwork or anything you can say to me?”
Pretty lame. Introduction to reality requires reality to exist ...
You have to start somewhere ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtE1rpUzcw&list=PLAcao3vnY9oFPVvZSoEp61ZAsVpmAWZ2K&index=4
I got no problem with this what so ever. Future sociopath.
the cops are idiots. It’s no wonder why they don’t know how to handle thugs and street crimes.
My parents tried to mainstream in the first grade; but by the 2nd grade, I was transferred to a special ed school and stayed there until I was a sophmore in high school. I am glad they did because by high school I was able to handle it.
“This is so f***ng dumb, mama,” John Benjamin can be heard telling his mother as the officers put cuffs around him.
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Does the autism make him speak that way? Did it make him threaten to kill his aide as is alleged?
One of the many problems with public schools is that parents dump mentally ill kids in them like they some sort of psychiatric institution, and state and federal laws force the schools to go out of their way to manage them. It is incredibly difficult and disruptive, and not good for anyone except the parents who get free daycare/healthcare.
The Okeechobee Achievement Academy’s web page indicates that it is a center for the placement of students who have already had problems at their original schools. Usually this type of school is used in place of expulsion. It’s a second chance school.
From their web page:
“Okeechobee Achievement Academy is committed to providing our students a positive, stimulating, and safe learning environment that promotes the development of individual responsibility, acceptable social skills, and academic growth. Upon returning to their former schools, students will be able to make appropriate decisions and experience success in completing their education.”
If the student is autistic, he was in a small group classroom with other Special Ed students. He had an aide and teacher in the classroom, who would have been trained in calming students and keeping them from harming themselves and others.
All indications is that he was not in a regular classroom. He was not mainstreamed.
WHAT! In one of our county schools, in fact the best public school in our neck of the woods, 5 yudts were arrested for sexual assault,on a student, off campus, and the arrest came about as the story broke at school the day after. The yudts, were taken to another county that has a yudt detention facility (ours does not).A few days later after the furor quieted down they brought the yudts back and put them back in school. One yudt reportedly has a baseball scholarship, that was in danger but now they have dismissed the charges. Whats’ plain is the fact we have to ship our yudts to a facility 2 counties away, yet the county andf city are both helping bankroll a “childrens Museum”....what kind of history do children have? Well, long ago, in 2017 me and my 4 homies had a encounter with a young.....
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