teacher shut autistic girl a tiny room

[sir_drinks_alot]

I was shock when i started to read this story but even more so when i descoved the so Called "teacher" had kept her job i was horrified.this should be a sackable offence god only Knows what long term harm this event has done to the girl.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-naughty.html

One questions whether the school was set up for the needs of an autistic student...having googled it as far as I can see it is not a special needs school as such.

[Taf]

Being a father of an autistic lad, I can tell you that Special Schools are now rare... New Labour decided to "integerate" them into mainstream schools but forgot to give enough training to teachers... and it's even worse at Secondary level where pupils change teachers several times a day.

The physical and mental effects of autism are so varied that it is very difficult to know how to deal with each affected person without a LOT of training and experience.

[Russ]

In one incident in October 2007, Mrs Pearson tore up one of Melanie-Rose's certificates for good behaviour in front of her and the class, Mrs Wichmann said

What an utterly nasty piece of work she sounds like

Originally Posted by Taf

Being a father of an autistic lad, I can tell you that Special Schools are now rare... New Labour decided to "integerate" them into mainstream schools but forgot to give enough training to teachers... and it's even worse at Secondary level where pupils change teachers several times a day.

The physical and mental effects of autism are so varied that it is very difficult to know how to deal with each affected person without a LOT of training and experience.

I'm aware of what new Labour and old Conservatives did to special needs education..and I agree entirely that the end result is less than happy plus that autistic children do need specialised training.Which is why I think this particular story should have been about the iniquities of the facilities available for such children not a tale that bashes individual schools/teachers without adequate training.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Taf

Being a father of an autistic lad, I can tell you that Special Schools are now rare... New Labour decided to "integerate" them into mainstream schools but forgot to give enough training to teachers... and it's even worse at Secondary level where pupils change teachers several times a day.

The physical and mental effects of autism are so varied that it is very difficult to know how to deal with each affected person without a LOT of training and experience.

New Labour running the education system on the cheap and cocking it up in the process? Quelle suprise..

[Osem]

It may surprise many of you but this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I know of many children with autism and other special needs who, at one time or another, have been dumped in ordinary school classrooms without the support they need to be able to cope in such environments. The reasons for this are often a combination of lack of funding/resources provided by the LEA and sometimes I have to say, a refusal of parents to accept their children's problems and consider special units or schools better able to address those needs. HMG calls it 'inclusion' but as is the case with 'care in the community', the success of such schemes depends on the right support being in place and all too often it just isn't and the poor children involved are left high and dry!

In these days when you can be arrested for uttering an offensive word, I must say I find it hard to understand how the 'teacher' concerned kept her job. In stark contrast to those caring professionals who dedicate their careers to looking after special needs children, she is an utter disgrace to her profession!

she should be jailed for this so she knows what its like unforgivable(ok now I am being extreme but it would teach her a lesson)

[nomadking]

I have yet to see a single comment that specifies what should have been done instead.

she should not have been left alone

[nomadking]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

she should not have been left alone

She wasn't.

Mrs Pearson said she held the door ajar, but Melanie-Rose denied this and said that she could not escape when she tried the door handle and her appeals to be let out were ignored.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by nomadking

I have yet to see a single comment that specifies what should have been done instead.

She should have been taken out of the classroom and allowed/assisted to calm down - not rocket science!

Originally Posted by nomadking

She wasn't.

That isn't how the child would have seen it. You're in a room alone, the door won't open, you're alone. Not nice.

[LondonRoad]

Originally Posted by nomadking

I have yet to see a single comment that specifies what should have been done instead.

I'm sure professionally trained staff would have known what to do. This individual clearly didn't.

Perhaps the lesson to be learnt here is for teaching assistants to be properly trained if they're expected to handle children with special requirements and considerations. I'd have thought it would have been common sense that isolating a small child in a room was a definite NO NO.

[nomadking]

She was allowed to calm down without disrupting the rest of the class and how long should someone wait for that to happen, an hour, all day, all week?