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8 year old autistic child taken from school in handcuffs
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<blockquote data-quote="Ropefree" data-source="post: 234529" data-attributes="member: 6271"><p>This story reminds me of the treatment my child recieved in his second school. The first princilple he had had was an excellant thinker and so well suited to the creative</p><p>solutions that a trained and naturally insightful person brings to the needs of children.</p><p>Whereas the second principle was a dud. ANd in that school culture was down right</p><p>damaging for the students. It was someone who worked at the school who sought me out and described what the teachers were doing and how the students were leaarning to target my child by teacher example. </p><p>I spent alot of time attempting to engage the teacher involved in the evidenced aproaches that are known to aide my childs learning needs. I sat with the districts</p><p>special education director at my side and each and every simple and usefull meathod was rejected. The teacher was ridigidely indifferant to the simplest things and even refused to allow my child to use the corral in her classroom siting that to do so was "unfair" to the other students.</p><p>Having spent the last twelve years sitting in iep and 504 meetings with a child who has an excellant ability to learn and who shows the results of the effort to </p><p>educate the indifferant and lazy teachers who insist time after time that to exstend themselves to the provissions of IEP "is to much to do".</p><p>At this time I can list quarter after quarter the samples where the principle and the teachers and the iep or 504 specialist simply did not comply to the federal law and merely do the simple thiings. ANd every time...up to yesterday, when I have AGAIn</p><p>contacted and addressed the matter with the person who is employed to do thier part and has not I am told that "next quarter" they will .</p><p></p><p>From my veiw point, dealling with a learner who acutually requires little effort on the part of the school to support his ability, the story of the autictic child who the school is so callously unprepared and has not implimented a base from which to provide the free and appproppriate education within even a six month period since the beginning of this school year which includes at least one person who does have the skill set to cope with this child in the situation depicted is a dramatic exsample of what is the past and current neglects that are daily lives of children with all levels of special learning support needs in school systems everywhere.</p><p></p><p>WE tend to drape the neglect of many children into another catagory to sheild the relavance of untreated and undertreated disorders by school districts. </p><p></p><p>While teachers on whole prefer to duck and cover rather than to stand up to the board of education and bury their employers in referal notices for the aids that are essential for them to do their jobs.</p><p></p><p>Right now with the state economy in the red sea of debt the schools are holding </p><p>"classtimes" with teachers who are protected from having a preparation for that class time by a contract that limits them to less than they are scheduled.</p><p>At this school an iep student is by policy placed into a class schedualed to bill for the "special services" they are to recieve upon paper but in that time period in reality those services do not occur.</p><p></p><p>Neglect of children in our culture is so pervasive that it is only the dramatic examples that raise ire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ropefree, post: 234529, member: 6271"] This story reminds me of the treatment my child recieved in his second school. The first princilple he had had was an excellant thinker and so well suited to the creative solutions that a trained and naturally insightful person brings to the needs of children. Whereas the second principle was a dud. ANd in that school culture was down right damaging for the students. It was someone who worked at the school who sought me out and described what the teachers were doing and how the students were leaarning to target my child by teacher example. I spent alot of time attempting to engage the teacher involved in the evidenced aproaches that are known to aide my childs learning needs. I sat with the districts special education director at my side and each and every simple and usefull meathod was rejected. The teacher was ridigidely indifferant to the simplest things and even refused to allow my child to use the corral in her classroom siting that to do so was "unfair" to the other students. Having spent the last twelve years sitting in iep and 504 meetings with a child who has an excellant ability to learn and who shows the results of the effort to educate the indifferant and lazy teachers who insist time after time that to exstend themselves to the provissions of IEP "is to much to do". At this time I can list quarter after quarter the samples where the principle and the teachers and the iep or 504 specialist simply did not comply to the federal law and merely do the simple thiings. ANd every time...up to yesterday, when I have AGAIn contacted and addressed the matter with the person who is employed to do thier part and has not I am told that "next quarter" they will . From my veiw point, dealling with a learner who acutually requires little effort on the part of the school to support his ability, the story of the autictic child who the school is so callously unprepared and has not implimented a base from which to provide the free and appproppriate education within even a six month period since the beginning of this school year which includes at least one person who does have the skill set to cope with this child in the situation depicted is a dramatic exsample of what is the past and current neglects that are daily lives of children with all levels of special learning support needs in school systems everywhere. WE tend to drape the neglect of many children into another catagory to sheild the relavance of untreated and undertreated disorders by school districts. While teachers on whole prefer to duck and cover rather than to stand up to the board of education and bury their employers in referal notices for the aids that are essential for them to do their jobs. Right now with the state economy in the red sea of debt the schools are holding "classtimes" with teachers who are protected from having a preparation for that class time by a contract that limits them to less than they are scheduled. At this school an iep student is by policy placed into a class schedualed to bill for the "special services" they are to recieve upon paper but in that time period in reality those services do not occur. Neglect of children in our culture is so pervasive that it is only the dramatic examples that raise ire. [/QUOTE]
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