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 moved my non verbal child to an all day therapy program after his first year in public pre school. He hated going to that school. After the new school year started, we received a notification that his teacher was arrested for child abuse.
I used to work in Special Education. It was so hard for my district to find assistants that weren’t either incompetent morons or batshit crazy. I remember one fellow teacher in another multiple disabilities room (so these kids need extensive care) asked an assistant to please let her know when she was leaving the room to go to the bathroom and the assistant went on a profanity laden tirade in the classroom. She had to be escorted off school property that day. People suck, I hope that poor kid is ok
Alleges my ass. It’s on fucking video.
She hasn’t been charged and convicted yet, so news outlets have to say alleged (innocent until proven guilty in a court of law) to cover their asses from lawsuits.
Reporting isn’t a court of law. I see it happen on video, there’s no context thst makes the behavior okay.
Yeah, and whats this about hitting them in the head and knocking them to the ground? They caught up to this kid, put their hand on the kid’s head, and pushed down hard, slamming the child to the ground. It was practically a throw.
if that was my kid I would be beat the living shit out of that person
There’s nothing stopping you now if we’re going to be honest
other than the law and not knowing who and where this person is sure
Also you going to jail for assault helps absolutely no-one than the private prison complex.
Did you watch the video? The dad says he is jealous because he isn’t allowed to be “physical” with him. This poor kid.
yeah, people suck
That’s one of the reasons I don’t want kids, if anything like that happened to them, some people would die and it wouldn’t be pretty.
Here is the video because CNN only included an image:
There is one sentence where they said “in the video, posted to facebook” and they hyperlinked the word “facebook” to the video. Which is the dumbest way to do it. Like basically hiding the link you are reporting on as if you dont want people to see it…
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
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.
Oh hell no
What school takes 3 year olds?
A preschool
rage
