Andy Gammill, writing for the Indianapolis Star, has an article about allegations of teacher sadism. The article has quite a lot of detail about allegations that a teacher severely mistreated a seven year old autistic student with peanut allergies. The most significant incident alleged that the teacher intentionally gave the kid a peanut candy bar so that he would get sick and not be able to go on a field trip to the zoo.
Horrifying allegations. Most teachers are good people with your child’s best interests at heart. But, occasionally stories like this come along that remind you that often you’re entrusting your child to strangers. Of course, special needs children are harder work to care for, and sometimes I suspect that fields requiring people to care for special needs children sometimes attracts people with an inclination to abuse the powerless.
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