Eleven-year-old with disabilities handcuffed to school door
June 6th, 2009From WJBK-FoxNews [Detroit], WXYZ News [Detroit], AP/Chicago Tribune:
A member of the Detroit board of education says she’s been told by school staff that an elementary school special education student was handcuffed to a door at the direction of his school’s principal after he was involved in a fight.
The district is investigating the claim involving Antonio Hunt, 11. The boy’s mother, Charmaine Hunt, said her son was left handcuffed without a break for four hours at Sampson-Webber Elementary School.
“It’s called child abuse, and the board has an obligation to investigate and to report it to the appropriate authorities because it is a state law,” said school board member Marie Thornton.
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July 26th, 2009 at 11:24 am
It is difficult to fathom that a headmaster who should play the advocacy role has turned into a bully. I do feel this is not only child molestation but bullying as well. By handcuffing this child, the perpetrator was trying to inculcate in child that he is different. This is not kind at all to say the least; children belong together and hence such segregation should not be condoned in our civilised world.
Unless a child is definitely a barrier to learn or disrupting the class; then there should be no reason for this child to be discriminated upon by being excluded from the rest of his classmates. Small disagreement amongst children is not a compelling narrative to warrant such monstrous action by the head teacher needless to say. This teacher has no iota of empathy from the look of things.