Posted on 04/30/2010 6:46:44 PM PDT by Abathar
INDIANAPOLIS -- A teacher and an aide at Perry Meridian Middle School have been charged with neglect after police said they strapped a student with autism to a chair and left him on the floor.
Veteran teacher Catherine Littleton, 52, and Jeffery Stokes, 27, were charged with battery, criminal confinement and neglect of a dependent in connection with a Feb. 18 incident in a classroom, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Stokes taped socks over the hands of a non-verbal 12-year-old student, strapped the boy's arms to his chest and belted him to a chair. The boy was then tipped over backward in the chair and left on the floor, police said.
"It happened several times over the year, and even though there may be no signs of physical harm, there's concern over the mental anguish he may have gone through," said Sgt. Matt Mount.
Another teacher's aide reported the incident to school administrators, who contacted Child Protective Services, which prompted a police investigation.
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With all due respect, that is probably the most ignorant statement I have ever heard.
I pray you will see the nastiness of your statement and apologize.
My godson is autistic and he does suffer from mental anguish because of his inability at times to express his feelings.
I'm a father of an Autistic 11 year old and I still don't understand why some parents would want their non-verbal Autistic child in a mainstream class. It doesn't help their kid and certainly distracts the other kids.
I'm grateful that my son is in the school that he's in and I'm indebted to my fellow taxpayers.
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“I feel bad for this child because I’m sure this was a terrible experience for him. However, we should blame the courts and the system that has thrust these children into a system that does not meet their needs but sits around and pats themselves on the backs while they try to be all things to all people while the teachers shoulder the blame for the mess.”
Well said.
They are mainstreamed and in most school classrooms there are at least two to four really problem children, MR, autistic, behaviorally dysregulated etc. The teacher and numerous aids are supposed to manage these problems and teach the class.
It is a sin.
The heads of our country do not subject their children to such travesty.
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These too are bigger retards than the kid.
Your an a hole
As a taxpayer myself but having no children and not married, it is precisely these kinds of programs that I do not mind paying for as these are the things that are important and need to be done, not spending the money to build something that will have a Congressman’s name on it, or building a bridge to nowhere, or funding grants to find out why pigs fart.
I always find it disturbing and interesting that school officials regularly get away with treating students in ways that ordinary citizens would be jailed for. It’s awful that things like this happen to kids no matter who is doing it, but the double standard is even more appalling.
Home schooling is looking better and better every day.
Good liberals I bet.
I remember going to meetings for students who I didn’t even have in class because the requirement is that a regular classsroom teacher be at the meetings to sign off of decisions made for the child. How crazy is that? I had no specialized training. I did not know the student, and yet I had to agree or disagree with modifications for them??
Only if the parents can pay for it.
God bless you for wanting the best for your child. Some kids with some disabilities function quite well in regular classrooms and some don’t. I think these days some kids thrive in environments with techniques that would be impossible in an average classroom, and frankly, why would a parent want that child to have that opportunity? I hope the very best for your son.
I have at times thought we should just scrap public schooling, but then I think, an educated populace really is the greater good. I think we could do it far better than we do, but it’s something I don’t mind spending my tax dollars on. I just would like to have a lot more input into how that is done (and I’d love to kick the unions out and stop letting it be a jobs program for teachers.)
I got left back in first grade because I did not follow instructions or take instructions well and I did not pay attention in class )I was bored I guess). But I grew out of it. Maybe my parents enrolled me in school one year too soon. I don’t know. But I guess I grew up well. I had great parents and a good education (Catholic schools) and I guess I didn’t turn out so bad after all.
Public education needs to go. It’s damaged one generation after another.
You may have not been ready for school at that age. Hard to know. At least it seems you can type and read and write coherently! :)
I respect the fact you had the decency to answer intelligently. I said I wasn’t sure he was going to suffer any mental anguish- which, of course, is open for debate. I also never said what these people did to him was “ok”. By the same token, it appears they did everything to avoid “physically” hurting him. Being a teacher for these kids is an incredibly demanding job. I won’t judge someone until I walk in their shoes. I’m a firm believer that political correctness- be it it liberal or conservative- stifles debate. I stand by my comment and await those with more knowledge to educate me. I, unlike others, have an open mind.
Headline reads funny.
Most teachers don’t do this stuff. A few use no common sense. I have never seen a teacher do anything like this. It’s why it makes the news. Because it’s not the norm. Not that public schools don’t need lots and lots of changes.
This kid should probably not be mainstreamed in a regular classroom.
This kid should probably not be mainstreamed in a regular classroom.
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