Being the mom of a special needs kid, I have worked closely with my daughter's school to ensure that she is safe. However, things happened and I jumped on it right quick and the school realized that they should have taken better action against the teacher's aid, who was allowed to do what she did.
Essentially, when my daughter was in the first grade, she was literally shoved up a short flight of steps outside the school, by an aid. The video cameras caught it, but I was not informed of the incident until I questioned the teacher as to why my child came home with scrape marks on the palms of her hands and the tops of her feet. When I pressed on about it, because my daughter does not go up and down steps quickly and takes them very slowly, I finally said that if the didn't investigate the issue, I would be calling an emergency IEP meeting.
They found the incident on the video tape at school and when they told me what happened, I said that that aid was to be immediately removed from being around my child. They fired that aid and got one that stayed with my daughter for the next six years. The aid they fired was hired on at the special needs camp that my daughter attended that summer. I was a volunteer parent there and witnessed that same aid getting in a childs face, yelling at him. She had him cowering in the corner. There were at least six other adults there and no one did anything. I walked into the directors office and told him about what just happened as well as what happened with my daughter a few months prior. She was fired.
What pisses me off is that if a person is going to get into a situation where they are working with special needs children, they have to understand that these kids are not your normal kid. They might have behavioral issues. They might have mental or physical limitations. If an adult cannot comprehend the reason WHY the child is placed in a special class to begin with, perhaps they should not be allowed to work around those type of kids. If their moral character is such that they would lose patience easily with a child, then they need to find another career path.
If I have to, according to PA law, have good moral character in order to obtain my cosmetologist license, just to be able to cut hair, then so should the people who work closely with children who require extra attention in school. You can spend all the money you want on education, to get a degree, but if your moral character shows what a piece of shit you are, then you need to find a solitary job where you can't mentally or physically harm someone else.
Essentially, when my daughter was in the first grade, she was literally shoved up a short flight of steps outside the school, by an aid. The video cameras caught it, but I was not informed of the incident until I questioned the teacher as to why my child came home with scrape marks on the palms of her hands and the tops of her feet. When I pressed on about it, because my daughter does not go up and down steps quickly and takes them very slowly, I finally said that if the didn't investigate the issue, I would be calling an emergency IEP meeting.
They found the incident on the video tape at school and when they told me what happened, I said that that aid was to be immediately removed from being around my child. They fired that aid and got one that stayed with my daughter for the next six years. The aid they fired was hired on at the special needs camp that my daughter attended that summer. I was a volunteer parent there and witnessed that same aid getting in a childs face, yelling at him. She had him cowering in the corner. There were at least six other adults there and no one did anything. I walked into the directors office and told him about what just happened as well as what happened with my daughter a few months prior. She was fired.
What pisses me off is that if a person is going to get into a situation where they are working with special needs children, they have to understand that these kids are not your normal kid. They might have behavioral issues. They might have mental or physical limitations. If an adult cannot comprehend the reason WHY the child is placed in a special class to begin with, perhaps they should not be allowed to work around those type of kids. If their moral character is such that they would lose patience easily with a child, then they need to find another career path.
If I have to, according to PA law, have good moral character in order to obtain my cosmetologist license, just to be able to cut hair, then so should the people who work closely with children who require extra attention in school. You can spend all the money you want on education, to get a degree, but if your moral character shows what a piece of shit you are, then you need to find a solitary job where you can't mentally or physically harm someone else.
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