Alicia Cabrel used a mobile phone to take a video of her upset son Derick Marte restrained with Velcro straps and screaming at the PS 107 school in New York.
She was told her child, who has ADHD, had become agitated when his gym session had come to an end and did not want to return to class.
More
35 comments:
ADHD isn't a special needs problem as long as they take medicine. I had some friend who has ADHD and they are fine most of the time and most of them can just sit still as long as they have to. This is more about poor parenting.
OK, the kid has ADHD. He was apparently disrupting others and was identified as a danger to himself and others. She should have taken him home and punished him, or perhaps even raise him properly...
How many staff members and /or students did that kid hit or spit on before that photo was taken? More than none, I bet.
7:28 is on the money - if the parents (emphasis on the plural) had taken a better part in the child's discipline, there probably would not have been a problem.
From the information provided, the leadership portion of the family unit is NOT intact.....a societal problem!
Special needs = future Perp.
7:28 Agreed, except giving a child meds for add or adhd, is giving up as a parent. Doctors get some much kickback from those companies, and end up producing a generation of zombies and mass murderers.
When gym is over and it's time to go back to class, that's what the rules are. I think this kid has lived 5 years without any rules to follow, and now struggles with that. Parenting would have helped here.
When these "special" kids "go off" they must be restrained in whatever manner is possible or they will injure themselves and anyone close to them. The parent needs to find a new doctor who knows what he is doing, or find other parents who have already dealt with this problem. And there are plenty of them. This is not a new problem.
Regardless of the parenting, we didn't handcuff or tie up our kids in school 20 years ago. Our teachers knew how to handle a situation and deal with it, without traumatizing the child.
I call BS on her! She lives across the street from the school, but it took her 15 minutes to waddle across the street to get her kid! She is looking for a hand-out! Do what the DR told you and Home-school that kid so that he doesn't disrupt the other kids who are learning! Start parenting your kid, instead of letting them get away with everything!
Horrified and concerned for her child... Pulls out cell phone to record?? Looking for a payday.
7:28 AM Poor parenting? Or an authoritarian state that views your children as property of the state? I for one am not okay with my child being bound for a behavioral issue.
Future prisoner. ....
hands up?
People no longer hire attorneys.They seek us out and in a way they hire their clients,if that makes any sense.They are trained to provoke those who haven't even given a lawsuit the first thought into suing everyone in sight.Behind every major abuse or discrimination case in this country is a law firm with a pitchfork.The monetary gain from someone's misery is at the heart of it all.
We have teachers and assistants who have been punched in the face, bitten, attacked, spat on, had things (chairs, lunchboxes, and such) thrown at them, and been subjected to a host of other assaults by kids this age. Administrators and counselors are trained to do restraints when a child's conduct is totally out of control and nothing else has worked. Sometimes more than one or two adults have to do the restraining and another adult is needed as a witness. Some kids "go off" several times a week. I think Velcro cuffs are not out of line.
I don't think that handcuffing a young child was the best way to deal with the problem, BUT: At the risk of bringing the wrath of the righteous down on my head, I'm going to say that the "mainstreaming" of special needs kids is one of the biggest challenges public schools face. It's also the elephant in the room everyone tries to ignore. I worked in a high school at one time, and one of the students was a legally-blind girl who refused to learn Braille. I saw her sitting in the library with an "instructional specialist"(paid for by the school district) who read aloud to her from a computer screen. The print on the screen was about the size of the third line on the eye chart. Does this make sense to anyone? I have a friend who is a director of a school for special needs kids in New Jersey. She is absolutely opposed to mainstreaming, and it's not because she runs a school. Her background is in speech pathology, and she could easily have earned a living from that. Rather, she got into special ed because she couldn't stand mainstreaming.
Where you a special needs kid ? I bet $100 You where and are.
If you'd ever worked with an
out of control child with this
problem---you would understand
they were protecting him along
with the other children!
There are 100's of "drugs" that can be administered in 1000 different ways , one of which would help with this problem without making the kid a "Zombie." But then, this requires some effort on the part of the caregiver to seek it out. Get my drift?? Been there-done that...
No, 10:59, I "where not" a special needs kid.
if he presented a danger to himself or others, theres no story...other than poor parenting.
I am willing to bet if that was a white kid in the picture the comments on here would be quite a bit different. 7:34 7:35 8:06 8:15 8:41 9:10
Blogger Queensgirl52 said...
No, 10:59, I "where not" a special needs kid.
October 2, 2014 at 11:37 AM
LMAO
Why would you punish a child for having ADHD. Plus it has nothing to do with good or bad parenting.
Many many of these "special needs" kids show a superior intellect and ability when they are properly medicated to stop the "noise" in their head. Finding the right medication takes more than a 3-minute visit with the Dr and a scribbled prescription with VERBAL instructions to "try this"
When you realize what an out of control kid can do to his/her classmates in the blink of an eye, you understand that once in a while we might want to worry about protecting somebody other than the aggressor.
Queensgirl is the only one so far that knows what she is talking about. BTW speech pathology is a very big part of special ed along with AT (assisted technology). There are also OTs, PTs, EAs my god it's a freaking army of peope trying to help those less fortunate than most of us. It takes a very special person to deal with that population on a daily basis. I take my hat off to them. Thank you for caring.
2:50 No I don't want to be hit or bitten by a white kid either thank you! Mom said she can be there in 5 minutes, indicating she is sitting at home and not working. And her first reaction upon seeing the "distress" her child is in is to rip out the cell phone to record it. If I felt my child was wrongly restrained you can bet that would not be the first thing I would do. She is definitely out for cash!
As important as special needs children are, other kids are important, too. Do you know how many hours of education are lost per week while adults pay attention to one or two kids? Maybe it's time to think about the twenty-five kids in each class who could learn and aren't being given a chance.
That is EXACTLY why private schools and home-schooling are booming right now! Too many people are getting their children diagnosed in order to collect an SSDI check.School is free daycare and as long as the kids act up and need to be medicated,the tax-free checks roll in.Some kids are downright dangerous but because that is a "special need" they are in regular classrooms.There is no incentive for the kids to learn and the too much time is wasted on the slowest 2 or 3 kids in a class.White or black,if you cannot be trusted not to assault people and destroy stuff,you belong in your own class. You would not believe how much money is funneled to "assistants" who basically are paid to accompany a "special " student from room to room throughout the day.It's just too much....children who have REAL special needs and are fragile should not be in the same class either because they are more vulnerable to bullying and abuse.
humans behavior habits are learned and conditioned. to fix this, just go see adrian peterson.
or just look up "south park adhd cure" on youtube. simple fix.
@2:50 I am white and I had ADHD - back in the day the children were labeled as Hyperactive! My mother cared enough about me to take me to a doctor and I was on medication for it! My parents both worked full time - they did not sit home on their a*s collecting a check! The problems with most of those people are 1) they are lazy, 2) their child is a check for them and that is all they care about, 3) they expect everyone else to raise their child for them! Get off your toosh, take care of your kids, and there won't be these issues. Teach your child to respect others! Sttop trying to turn everything into a RACE issue - it is a bullcrap cop-out! If she was that concerned about her child being distressed she would have yanked off the velcro straps and had him in her arms comforting him!
Special Needs children did not exist 20 years ago.
The proper non-PC term for Special Needs children is this:
Vaccine injured.
But we can't call them what they are. They are victims of Big Pharma. Their parents have been mind controlled so they give them more of what Big Pharma has to offer.
Vaccine injury is a terrible problem today. It was not a problem years ago, and that is why so few of us recognize if for what it is.
These children are very difficult to control because their neurological system is not working properly. Terrible situation.
Post a Comment