Teacher beats up special needs student

[columbus]

A part of the responsibility for this falls on the administration.

And the parents.
Nobody wants to talk about them.
Tom

 

[Shad]

And the parents.

As I said it depends on the disability and severity of it (which I do not know) Also who placed the student in that class if the disability was a major problem. Without knowing that we have no idea what the parents did or didn't do.

*Disability or special needs in the context I am using is that of a mental handicap not merely something like ADD. For example when I grade 7 there was a special needs student with a major mental handicap that they were at a grade 1 level in education and barely functional in anything else. That student should have never been in that class.

 

[Ouroboros]

Training was lacking from what I have read. I didn't know the student was special needs until today. Depending on the severity of the disability the teacher should have never been assigned to the class due to lacking qualifications for special needs. Alternatively the student should have been a special needs program not general population. Again depending on the severity of the disability. A part of the responsibility for this falls on the administration.

Yes. Agree. I do think the school failed to a degree here.

 

[Shad]

Yes. Agree. I do think the school failed to a degree here.

At the very least hiring someone with a criminal record.

How they define special needs to be expressed. The term has far too wide of a scope from problems which require specialist training and/or a permanent aid to behavior issues like those caused by ADD and ADHD which is a parent/doctor issue.

 

[David1967]

Training was lacking from what I have read. I didn't know the student was special needs until today. Depending on the severity of the disability the teacher should have never been assigned to the class due to lacking qualifications for special needs. Alternatively the student should have been a special needs program not general population. Again depending on the severity of the disability. A part of the responsibility for this falls on the administration.

Special needs teachers require special training. The student slapped at the teacher when the teacher was in her face yelling. According to reports, the teacher was angry at other kids in the class for laughing so was taking out her apparently uncontrollable rage out on the student.

 

[Shad]

Special needs teachers require special training.

I know. At times a specialist is the better option in my view. In my experience Jr and HS specialists are rare compared to elementary.

The student slapped at the teacher when the teacher was in her face yelling. According to reports, the teacher was angry at other kids in the class for laughing so was taking out her apparently uncontrollable rage out on the student.

Yah I speculated there was an anger and/or authority issue.