Dad wires autistic son, exposes teachers’ verbal abuse

[BlueGenCoupe]

I was reading the paper today online and came across this. This was absolutly disgusting. I can't beleive teachers would do this! I can't beleive these people still have jobs! There are soo many young qualified graduates looking for a teaching position, that probably have more patience and a heart than these people, yet they're out of a job.

 

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Heres the article:

 

NEW YORK - - A New Jersey school district has fired at least two educators for verbally abusing autistic children after a father sent his 10-year-old autistic son to school wearing a hidden microphone upon suspecting he was being mistreated by staff.

The audio recordings, made public in a 17-minute video later posted on YouTube, capture educators speaking in harsh tones to the autistic children, including one in which a woman tells the young boy what sounds like “You are a b@stard.”

 

“That night my life changed forever,” father Stuart Chaifetz said of the first time he heard the recording. “What I heard on that audio was so disgusting, so vile.”

Chaifetz said in the video he had become perplexed by reports his son, Akian, was being accused of hitting teachers and aides and knocking over chairs at Horace Mann Elementary School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

“None of it made sense because he’d never been violent,” Chaifetz said.

After what he described as six months of unproductive meetings with school staff, he sent his son to school wearing a hidden microphone on Feb. 17, resulting in about six hours of audio of an apparently typical day in which a teacher and aides can be heard joking about a hangover one of them has and being harsh and unsympathetic to students.

All the children in Akian’s class have autism or other learning difficulties, making it difficult for them to communicate with other people, Chaifetz said. Staff in the class took advantage of that, he said, by talking about inappropriate subjects, including their drinking habits and their husbands, in earshot of the children.

“I had a bottle of wine with my girlfriend last night,” a female member of staff can be heard saying on the recording, before going on to tell a colleague that she spent the morning “heaving.”

A staff member tells Akian, who Chaifetz says sometimes talks softly to himself because of his autism, to “shut your mouth” on more than one occasion.

Akian, whose parents live apart, can later be heard crying after he asks whether he may see his father after he visits his mother for the weekend, to which a staff member replies “No!”

Chaifetz says he presented the school with his audio recording in February. He uploaded his YouTube video, which contains excerpts from the recording, on Friday. It has since been viewed more than 1.4 million times.

“The individuals who are heard on the recording raising their voices and inappropriately addressing children no longer work in the district and have not since shortly after we received the copy of the recording,” Maureen Reusche, superintendent of the Cherry Hill School District, told a board of education meeting on Tuesday, according to a statement on the district’s website.

She was legally prevented from giving further details about who was fired, she said.

Chaifetz says in the video that some of the staff involved were merely transferred to another district, not fired. “You called my son a bastard. You made him cry. You heard crying innocently and he’s a bastard for that?”

He says he wants the teachers involved to make a public apology to his son and resign.

“It’s about dignity,” he said. “This is to reclaim my son’s dignity.”

[THE Mook]

This made the rounds on the TBSS site yesterday.

 

Words can't express the absolute rage anger that was sent coarsing through me when I read/heard.

[Doug123]

These kids need a caring set of people to work with them, not that kind of stuff. Those teachers should never teach again and have their certificates pulled.

[Team Adam's]

Mook has already heard my violent, expletive laden, thoughts on this.... I'll just leave it alone.

[Chewy]

I already went to Change.org and put my name on his petition...

 

I suggest you all do the same.

 

I heard him on CNN this AM on the way in to work and man was I pissed!

 

They said it can take up to 5 years to fire a teacher. That's BS!!! When something like this is found, they should be able to fire them immediately.

 

Chris

[02Xtreme07ss]

I still can't believe that the actual teacher has only been 'reassigned' but the aide that can be heard in the video the most was fired. Any adult that was in that room and is employed by that school district should be terminated immediately for allowing this child to be treated this way.

[DemoN]

Mook has already heard my violent, expletive laden, thoughts on this.... I'll just leave it alone.

 

i haven't

 

but i can only imagine. this made the rounds on several other forums, and my facebook. i was pissed about it...then thought of your boy...and became enraged. the backpack mutilating butter knife needs to come out of retirement.

[Doug123]

Just publish their names in a public place, like a billboard near where they work now.

 

"The following teachers have been reassigned to YOUR school because they verbally abused autistic children. Do you want them teaching YOUR children? Let the school district know about it".

[BlueGenCoupe]

I already went to Change.org and put my name on his petition...

 

I suggest you all do the same.

 

I heard him on CNN this AM on the way in to work and man was I pissed!

 

They said it can take up to 5 years to fire a teacher. That's BS!!! When something like this is found, they should be able to fire them immediately.

 

Chris

 

Unions are great, but are absolutly HORRIBLE in a case like this!

[JBlack151]

So sad. I don't want to say anything further before I really say how I feel.

[1FAST SS]

Very troubling.

[camaro2ssblack]

Mook has already heard my violent, expletive laden, thoughts on this.... I'll just leave it alone.

 

 

My blood boils to think any child is mistreated. It literally hurts my heart...

[3PedalMINI]

since its less the 15 minutes from my house and 10 minutes from phily its been a non stop news coverage. Its making its rounds, saw this also today on National Fox News

 

When i saw this on TV my jaw dropped. Unbelievable.

[Golf for Life]

Union or no union this deserves immediate firring and there teaching certificates lifted. The billboard sounds like a good idea. DO YOU WANT THESE PEOPLE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN?

[Faze]

i haven't

 

but i can only imagine. this made the rounds on several other forums, and my facebook. i was pissed about it...then thought of your boy...and became enraged. the backpack mutilating butter knife needs to come out of retirement.

 

this...

 

I really wish they'd release the names of ALL teachers/aids involved.

[savi01]

How the father has managed to relatively stay "cool" and not go and smash some heads in, is beyond me.

 

I would go after those staff members.

[The Ryan]

Unbelievable...

[Doug123]

How the father has managed to relatively stay "cool" and not go and smash some heads in, is beyond me.

 

I would go after those staff members.

 

He's probably very angry, but getting himself put in jail won't help his son. I just want those teachers and aids prevented from every working in a school again.

[GXPaycheck]

Teachers like that should be treated as sex offenders. Never let them near kids again.

[dipolley]

I cannot express how much this angers me. My family has worked with kids like this for years, amongst kids with other challenges. You never treat any kid like that. Dylan, I can not even begin to imagine how you feel about this. I hope these women are never allowed to work with kids again. Dispicable.

[MAYBEN]

This is appalling..