Special Ed teachers caught abusing students on audio tape - Sensationalist Headlines

https://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/disturbing-audio-recording-made-inside-an-elementary-school-classroom-in-west-virginia?fbclid=IwAR30ODyUg4XLJTZL4tH-vLNfFu80rI4TOi9AtbbZCqXgWey2qTFj5NEGwHk BERKELEY COUNTY, W.Va. (WJLA) — A hidden recording device in a special education classroom is raising alarming questions about what went on inside a classroom at an elementary school in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Amber Pack sent her 8-year-old daughter to class with a recording device after the child didn't want to go back to school. Instructor #1: "I ought to back hand you right in your teeth. How is that for anxiety?" Instructor #1: "This one I could punch her right in her face." Instructor #2: "You got to go pee-pee? Pee-pee? Or do you not have to go pee-pee and you just want to go **** *** in a chair?" Instructor #2: "I'm going to pull your hair until you start crying." Why do people have to be so god damn awful to vulnerable and defenseless children?

Shouldn't be allowed around children or anyone vulnerable ever again

This makes me so thankful my special ed teachers in my very first year of public school were so fantastic. Seriously, they were so great I remember their names, faces, and voices. They were everything I needed at a time when mom was pulling her hair out because I refused to do anything she told me to. (This was within a year of being diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. I started public school in the fourth grade.) By the next year of school I was already ready to take half my classes with the non-special-ed students, and another year later I was no longer in special ed classes at all, and made my first ever non-special ed friends.

Right now, all 3 instructors are on paid administrative leave. lmao get the fuck out of here with that shit

Why would you sign on for the handling the special needs children if you despised them? That's like wanting to be a coach so you could mock how out of shape your students are. As someone with high functioning autism i'm glad that there were people in the schools who would tolerate my socially retarded behavior, only had one time when i got abused and it was when i was in some kind of student exchange program and the special needs teacher of the other school fitted the stereotype of "i hate children even though its my job to handle children". i'm rather thankful that's was the worse abuse in my life as i never met anyone who could have done worse.

Honestly this is the kind of shit that makes me wish we had more corporal punishment. Proof of abuse of animals or children feels like there should be an eye for an eye kind of treatment from their parents. I know that's really extreme, but it's just my initial knee-jerk reaction. It's unforgivable and nothing will ever take back that abuse the children endure. It will haunt them forever.

as tempting as it is to say just fire them, union protections and due process exist for a reason, there's been plenty of times where schools have tried to fire teachers for petty things like teaching evolution or climate change. There's little chance they return to their job though because its pretty clear cut case with the audiotape

that would just give them what they want how about do that aaaaand fine em

Some people i'm sure would literally do just that

literally paid holiday - never let them anywhere near kids again

Jesus Christ. This is the same county I went to school in. It's not the same school I went to, but I probably know these people, or have at least seen them. There's a pretty large backlash against the school right now, talking about a lawsuit against the administration for not doing anything, plus lots of people calling for the administrators to resign.

I wasn't so lucky; special ed kids get abused far more than people realize and its honestly harrowing. At least I was the kind of shitty kid to put up a fight and actively made their lives hell until I integrated into normal classes in middle school.

What the fuck is it with these kind of people, I've had family involved in mental health (Occupational Therapy) and would have thought this kind of abuse would have been in the limelight more after the Winterbourne View scandal (Even though it's not a school I'd have though there would have been more oversight as has happened here in the UK).