Educators forced 7-year-old boy to eat his own vomit

[Skeptical Greg]

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They get kids with profound behavioral problems who attack other children and staff and best case they wind up spending all their time dealing with that and the other kids are getting nothing.
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It's amazing how this describes exactly what I see in my school. Do I know you?

At best we have 4 staff in the room with 11 kids, which usually results in 4 kids essentially getting 1 on 1 all day with the other 7 getting little if any attention.

When asked by administrators what we need to do a better job, all we can say is 'more help' , and they say ' You are just going to have to do the best you can with what you have.'.

I apologize if it seems I was dismissive of your use of ' we ', I really do understand how other people, particularly other staff at our school seem to think we have it easy with 'only' 11 kids.

 

[Checkmite]

It's wild how when someone asks "how could someone do [something horrible]" any answer is attacked like it is condoning the horrible behavior.

I think the problem is that you're making generalized statements that don't really apply to the case under discussion.

For one thing, again, no misbehavior or violent outburst is alleged of the child who was abused. According to the police, video showed he was eating his food just fine until he appeared to start choking and stood up.

For another, these weren't school employees. According to the news reports, these teachers/caregivers were employees of an outside specialist agency who were at the school specifically to work with special needs children, presumably to relieve the actual school staff of the very burdens you're describing.

 

[Darat]

I suppose the kid could have learned how to vomit whenever it wanted, and I suppose it could do this a lot for whatever reason, but that still doesn't mean the actions of the adults can in any way be considered correct nor I would say even understandable.

 

[bluesjnr]

I suppose the kid could have learned how to vomit whenever it wanted, and I suppose it could do this a lot for whatever reason, but that still doesn't mean the actions of the adults can in any way be considered correct nor I would say even understandable.

It? Bit dehumanising perhaps?

 

[Darat]

More old fashioned I'd say.