Autistic student tapes bully

[CatholicBoy1957]

Autistic student tapes bully

BY GANNETT NEWS SERVICE April 29, 2012 10:50PM

Updated: April 30, 2012 2:12AM

CHERRY HILL, N.J. —When harsh words flew in a classroom for autistic children, the school employees who spoke them likely thought no one in authority would ever hear.

“Shut up,” shouted one staffer, unaware that a digital recorder was hidden in the pocket of 10-year-old Akian Chaifetz.

“Go ahead and scream because guess what? You’re going to get nothing until your mouth is shut.

“Oh Akian, you are a bastard.”

But after the boy’s father, Stuart Chaifetz, released excerpts of the tape in an online video last week, millions of people heard what was said at the Horace Mann Elementary School.

The Daily Mail also ran this, but hopefully the Sun is more reliable.

suntimes.com/news/nation/12205028-418/autistic-student-tapes-bully.html
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134495/Oh-Akian-bas–d–Father-records-teachers-bullying-10-year-old-AUTISTIC-son.html

I heard Rush state that no Democrat has come forward yet, and stated if he had a son he would be just like Akian.

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

Then, the superintendent has the gall to lie.

At least one classroom aide reportedly lost her job and on Tuesday Superintendent Maureen Reusche said she wanted "to assure our parents that the individuals who are heard on the recording raising their voices and inappropriately addressing children no longer work in the district and have not since shortly after we received the copy of the recording.”

But Chaifetz then said he had discovered that the teacher of his son’s class, Kelly Altenburg, was moved to another school and not fired, while a teachers union official told msnbc.com Wednesday that Altenburg “basically was exonerated.”

usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/26/11395270-autistic-boys-father-why-hasnt-teacher-been-fired-over-bullying?lite

 

[SamH]

Anytime a school official claims a teacher was fired after so short of time you know they are lying. The NEA prevents that from happening, the last thing they want is for teachers to be fired for not doing their job - it will start a pattern.

 

[triumphguy]

The Daily Mail also ran this, but hopefully the Sun is more reliable.

The story is terrible - I have a kid with special needs myself in a special ed. class, but the Sun and the Mail are both rags - (Fishwrap as Fr. Z would say).

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

The story is terrible - I have a kid with special needs myself in a special ed. class, but the Sun and the Mail are both rags - (Fishwrap as Fr. Z would say).

Yeah, I know. I also quoted msnbc, and that is, of course, another rag. I also saw it reported on extensively at HuffPo, which is as off the wall as can be.

Ah! Here’s a reliable source:

foxnews.com/us/2012/04/28/nj-teacher-put-on-leave-amid-verbal-abuse-probe285849/

Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be added to what Sam said. The union is in control, and the teachers can do anything they want. We’ve seen the evil they are capable of in the case of McInerny and King. I guess this is just another example of why Christ will make an appearance to put evil in it’s place, once and for all.

 

[Holly3278]

It is horrible that this autistic student was bullied like that. I am friends with a guy who is autistic and I would hate to see him bullied.