Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Ethel mermania wrote:The only problem i have with the article is this ain't on the cops.
This is on the school, from the teacher through at least the principal if not the whole district (if it was a public school) The sub was untrained for the classroom, the district didn't inform the sub of the kids with IEP's. The principal knowing the kid thought calling the cops was the way to go?
A few people are going go lose their jobs, and Kid's going to be a millionaire. I don't have a problem with that.
Millions less spent on the education of the other students in that school. Hardly a good outcome, compared to the temp teacher being properly briefed by the school and the incident never happening ...
The teacher probably can't pay much, so it will mostly come out of the school's hide (and school district?)
True, the ideal would have been for the teacher to have been properly briefed (or, if she was, to have paid attention to the information she was given), for the teacher to have behaved properly and not attempted to move the child by force (and all because she didn't like how she was sitting), for the school administration to have refused to allow the police to be called, and for the police to refuse to come and arrest the small child.
But they did. There was a whole cavalcade of cockups, culminating in a vulnerable child being traumatised.
At the very least, there needs to be a thorough, independent investigation into the school, and the child should have some redress for his experience.