Must watch video on Teachers harassing Autistic kids

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... fkscHt96R0 This video absolutely disgusts me and made me actually cry. Send your support to the father.

Well, this video's probably going to get a lot of attention. I was about to come and post it.

Just a heads up, the intro is pretty long and the actual content starts at 3:00. In the intro he just says this, if you want to skip it:

Yes, it is disgusting and she totally deserved to get fired and never work as a teacher again. But I do want to make the point that she probably didn't do this to him because of his autism. She did it because of the type of person she is - it just happened to have much more of an impact on him than it would on your average kid.

My own experience supports this. I've had teachers bully me too and I was in a regular class in a regular school, not recognised as being "special" in any way. The same teachers also bulled other kids, who were very likely NT. The worst example was when I gave an incorrect answer in class and the teacher responded (in front of the whole class): "is your mother an idiot?! has your father not [sexually satisfied] her enough?" I was about 9-10, so fortunately I didn't understand at the time what the hell she was on about and neither did the rest of the class - but we got the tone of it and understood that it was meant as an insult. That particular teacher was never fired to my knowledge, despite multiple complaints from multiple students and parents.

I think some people like to take advantage of kids disabilities by abusing them knowing they get away with it because the kid can't go home and tell on them.

That broke my heart.

This video makes me so angry at the teacher, but so sad for that boy. If I met those teachers in real ife not sure if I would be able to control my rage.

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This reminded me of this case with a kid last fall: link

Thought this thread would have gotten more replies.. At least the video got a lot of views.

Yes! This dad started a petition! I posted a link to it!

I don't know if I should watch the video, just reading the article about it on Yahoo made me so angry I had to get up and walk away from my computer.

This is my worst nightmare. I feel this is the equivalent of the Catholic church and the way they just move the offenders on to someplace else. The thought of children continuing to be exposed to these horrific people makes me seriously ill.

I just received that video from a friend...couldn't sit through it without feeling a wide range of negative emotions. It's disgusting, really. I hope that teacher and the aides do, in fact, come clean and do the right thing...Akian definitely didn't deserve the sort of bullying he received!!

Some teachers are angry, frustrated people who should not be teaching. And they're mean to almost any kind (to an extent that it would shock and surprise parents).