Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges.
After the child is on the ground, the employee at Rosa Parks Early Learning Center in Dayton, Ohio, picks the child up by his ankles and carrying him down the hall with his head towards the floor, the August video shows.
The employee has since been removed by the district. The child is nonverbal and autistic, said the attorney for the boy’s parents, Michael Wright.
I’m not surprised. You send your kids off to day care or public school, you’re just trusting in the good will of strangers at that point. Especially times 1000 if your kid has a mental health condition.
Even if these people successfully sue the school and the employee - so what? Their kids’ still traumatized, the damage is done.
Weird take, are you suggesting this couldn’t happen at a private school? It sounds like you’re shaming parents who send their kids to public school, when parents often don’t have a choice
In some countries like Germany the public system is actually the nicer option.
Well, at least prevent the same damage to be done to other children.
You lay down all cards on the table when you put your child there. They are to choose if they are up to that work or if they aren’t. If they’ve taken a non-verbal autist and then their worker did that, they failed their end of a contract. Even if they weren’t autistic, it’s the same.
Challenging this institution to change may help future kids&parents entering it. Fees can help family to access therapy. This case being brought up internationally may also has an impact on how (special) children are treated worldwide.