He shouldn’t be in prison. He should be in a state hospital. I want violent criminals behind bars, but this case is different.
Before you all flame away, read the background:
He has a severe mental disability. He was living in an institution. His parents didn’t put him in school. The state did.
And he’s the THIRD special ed student in that school system who attacked an aide. The other two were NEVER sent to prison, even though they were older.
More details here: https://flaglerlive.com/depa-disparities/#gsc.tab=0
None of these students should ever have been put in the school system.
Here’s more info on Brendan Depa’s case: https://flaglerlive.com/brendan-depa-my-son-story/#gsc.tab=0
To summarize:
Brendan’s (adoptive) parents homeschooled him because of his problems. When he grew big and strong, they could no longer handle him, so they put him in “long-term hospitalization.” But, the insurance company forced him out, and the state took over his case. The state puts these patients into group homes. The group homes use the public school special ed programs as “day programs.”
So, the state placed Brendan in a group home and a special ed program, despite his parents’ objections.
Again, he’s the THIRD special ed student who attacked an aide there. The other two were sent right back to their group homes. But, he’s been sentenced to prison for five years?
None of them should be in prison or group homes or special ed programs. They should be in state hospitals.
In Texas, a teaching assistant died three days after she was attacked by a special ed student, but no one is talking about that case.
More here: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/lawsuit-filed-against-dallas-isd-for-negligence-in-teachers-death/287-24363247-1840-4ff4-914b-b047620d4d68
Bring back the state institutions.
State institutions won’t put butts in the seats in publik skrewls.
Fewer butts in the seats mean less funding.
That kid was in that school because publik skrewl bureaucrats and the union were willing for the shilling.
There’s only kne thing that will fix this: more parents refusing to send their kids to publik skrewls.
Since your alternatives do not exist... he can rot.
When they get into the system and get moved to group homes they are taught that violence fixes everything by the state and their placement agencies.
In group homes one has to work together on menus and compromise with others or have seating arrangements or personal property like personal chairs. Provided that these people do not have issues that would actually inhibit them from learning then they quickly learn from environment, experience, or peers, that certain things like being unusually antisocial and violent will eventually get them what they want by moving them to accommodations, at that placement agency or one that specializes in “extreme behaviorals”, that are private and allows them to never have to share/compromise and allows for personal staff.