What would you do if the teacher made your disabled child sit in a closet all day?
By LisaAKAmom
09-29-08
What would you do if the teacher made your disabled child sit in a closet all day?
This San Francisco Bay Area story is cross-posted from our sister site, 50-something moms blog.
My nephew Garrison is 16. He likes playing video games and reading books about TinTin and Garfield. He's a dead-eye free-throw shooter, a skill he honed by spending hours on end playing basketball by himself in his backyard. He might be the world's biggest Oakland A's fan. Not only does he enjoy going to games with his dad but he can name all the current players including their positions and numbers. He can even tell you the city where the former players have been traded to and their new teams. Ask him his favorite pitcher and he'll name a a lesser known player in a different league. Since kindergarten he's attended school in one of the top school districts in California. Last year he was a freshman at a well respected high school in the East Bay until they made him spend a day in a closet.
How could they get away with such a thing? They knew he couldn't go home and speak for himself because Garrison has Down syndrome.
This wasn't an impulsive act done by a teacher in a fit of anger or frustration. It was an in-school suspension planned by the vice principal and head of the special education department complete with a custom-built cell designed to put him in solitary confinement where they planned to put him for five days.
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This San Francisco Bay Area story is cross-posted from our sister site, 50-something moms blog.
My nephew Garrison is 16. He likes playing video games and reading books about TinTin and Garfield. He's a dead-eye free-throw shooter, a skill he honed by spending hours on end playing basketball by himself in his backyard. He might be the world's biggest Oakland A's fan. Not only does he enjoy going to games with his dad but he can name all the current players including their positions and numbers. He can even tell you the city where the former players have been traded to and their new teams. Ask him his favorite pitcher and he'll name a a lesser known player in a different league. Since kindergarten he's attended school in one of the top school districts in California. Last year he was a freshman at a well respected high school in the East Bay until they made him spend a day in a closet.
How could they get away with such a thing? They knew he couldn't go home and speak for himself because Garrison has Down syndrome.
This wasn't an impulsive act done by a teacher in a fit of anger or frustration. It was an in-school suspension planned by the vice principal and head of the special education department complete with a custom-built cell designed to put him in solitary confinement where they planned to put him for five days.
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your turn
By 4muskateers
10-05-08
I'd put the teacher in a closet,
I'd make sure his IEP stated that anything tried on him needs to be tried on staff first...from food to restraints...if it is in the IEP, it has to be done.
I'd make sure his IEP stated that anything tried on him needs to be tried on staff first...from food to restraints...if it is in the IEP, it has to be done.
Crime
By frogfoot1969
09-29-08
I think that should be considered a crime against children. NO CHILD should be treated that way.
