We actually don't know what happened prior to her removing him. I remember when I went to school how we played up and when I think back we should have had someone who would drag us out of the school room and given us a good hiding. Kids who have all that what that boy has should go to a special school where they have enough of staff that can give the time and attention to these students.

While I do not agree with her actions and think she must be a horrible human being, we all play a part in the circumstances that create instances like this. Teachers are an under appreciated, under paid, dis respected profession with too many kids in their classroom.

If teaching were a sought after profession, we would only hire the most compassionate and qualified. As it stands districts hire whomever they can without a record because turn over is high, burn out is high, and there are exceedingly rare candidates for replacement.

So we have either burnt out teachers who actually care with 30-40 students per room, or teachers who never cared with 30-40 students, fewer and fewer special classes to help with students with challenges, teachers dealing with entitled children of entitled parents, no money for needed supplies, and what you get is zero patience, a dwindling caring, and teachers snapping.

They're also likely not taught proper or current ways to enact adjustments or techniques for every kind of special student. From those with gifts to those who fall outside of social norm. That requires additional training, who will pay for it? When exactly would that happen? Most teachers have a second job.

I am not a teacher. I am not even related to teacher, and even I can see the system is egregiously broken.

The biggest tragedy in our country is not immigrants, it is our "education" system.

I tutored students for over 20 years and oftentimes I ended up with students with special needs (learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, behavioural issues). They all had poor relationships with their teachers and their parents had just about given up when they reached out to me. Although inclusiveness (students with special needs integrated into regular schools) is a nice idea, I found many teachers did not know how to deal with these students appropriately, and there was not enough special needs educational assistants to go around. All the work I did with the students to help them improve grades and to increase their academic confidence was always destroyed by their teachers. Granted it was never anything close to physical abuse as in this case but it indicated that teachers had not been well trained to understand and work with students with special needs. It was so frustrating to the point that I refused to work with the teachers. FYI I do have some training as a special needs educational assistant.

These teachers have to be taught basic restraint training - where he was not harming other students she could have waited for assistance from the front office.

Sounds like she entirely lost her cool and didn't use her training. She also sounds like she'll get prosecuted which is what should happen - though 4th degree assault probably doesn't carry much penalty? Maybe a lawsuit would.

I realize this wouldn't have been an easy situation - but I had clients who drove me to distraction and what you do is get assistance or chill the heck down by taking a deep breath. You do NOT abuse people FFS.

Just as some people shouldn't be parents, there are some people who shouldn't be teachers.
Some folks just have NO business being around children, AT ALL.
Especially children with special needs.
A lot worse than just losing her job should happen to that woman.

My heavens...teachers must know how to remove a child that is disrupting the class and a child in distress?