THE CALIFORNIA STATE OF TEACHERS
It was recently published in the Fresno Bee, a special ed teacher in our local area has filed assault charges against a 15 year old, 100 pound autistic child. She stated that he pushed her and threw 2 chairs against the wall. Educational personal are now worried that more autistic children will be brought up on criminal charges and brought before the judge.
The facts in the matter are these. The teacher involved (supposedly thoroughly trained in working with autistic) has 26 years experience. The school district did not report the incident, the teacher herself went to the police. The instructions that are required for handling these children are specific in what response to take during an incident.
The specific instructions for this child are; Take him to Ms Telmeena Jackson and let him call home to reassure himself. When the boy had his episode, he was taken to Ms Jackson but instead of following instructions and allowing the boy to phone home, She decided to exercise her will over the child and force him to do class work before using the phone.
The boy does not understand the problem, he maintains that all he did was tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. When she did not respond he threw the chairs. Who knows for sure? They were in a locked room together.
This incident happened in March and of course Ms Jackson has been too upset to teach since (probably on workmans comp leave for stress). The question remains, are these teachers really being trained to handle autistism, or like everything else in our education system, being dumbed down to graduate the dumber students that apply for teaching education? Or is she just another one of these people at the Public Trough that looking for an "early out" at our expense?
The facts in the matter are these. The teacher involved (supposedly thoroughly trained in working with autistic) has 26 years experience. The school district did not report the incident, the teacher herself went to the police. The instructions that are required for handling these children are specific in what response to take during an incident.
The specific instructions for this child are; Take him to Ms Telmeena Jackson and let him call home to reassure himself. When the boy had his episode, he was taken to Ms Jackson but instead of following instructions and allowing the boy to phone home, She decided to exercise her will over the child and force him to do class work before using the phone.
The boy does not understand the problem, he maintains that all he did was tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. When she did not respond he threw the chairs. Who knows for sure? They were in a locked room together.
This incident happened in March and of course Ms Jackson has been too upset to teach since (probably on workmans comp leave for stress). The question remains, are these teachers really being trained to handle autistism, or like everything else in our education system, being dumbed down to graduate the dumber students that apply for teaching education? Or is she just another one of these people at the Public Trough that looking for an "early out" at our expense?
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