Cruel and unusual!! School Refuses To Let Father Take His 10-Year-Old Autistic Son Home...

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12. what the heck

Is osceola county sending children who are on the spectrum from multiple districts to one central school? The school also lists:

ESE Support Staff:
Maritza Arroyo
Melanie Cain
Isabel Figueroa
Dennis Kelly
Abby Torres
Becky Bracero
Ivette Pagan
Debbie Palmer
Carmen Ortiz

They have one each of PE teacher, Art teacher, Music Teacher, Drama/Dance teacher.

So why would one school need six autism specialists and nine para pros - is the district sending all children with special needs to this one school rather than attending their zoned schools?

Here are some past stories from osceola county- not the same school, same school district

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Osceola-County-teacher-accused-of-abusing-autistic-student/15600254
2012- According to the incident report, the teacher's aid came forward, saying she witnessed the teacher pull him up "roughly by the arms" and toss him to the ground, then grabbed his feet and "dragged him across the carpet" while verbally abusing him.

The aid also accused the teacher told other students to "kick or push Phoenix when he misbehaves."

Another story about that case with different details:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/narcoossee-elementary-school-teacher-accused-of-threatening-to-cut-off-tongues-dragging-student-across-cloor_n_1687166.html

"He tried to get away from her and he ran to a corner. (I'm) not sure, under a desk or something, and she went and drug him out by his leg, which caused him to get rug burn on his elbow," Phoenix's father, Craig Hanson, told the station.

The boy's mother, Nina Moreno, told WFTV that the teacher also tried to entice other students to physically abuse the 5-year-old.

"She would ask other students, 'Should I hit him?' You know? Then encouraged them to hit him and kick him," Moreno told the station.

Andrus is also accused of holding scissors up to students' tongues and ankles in a threatening manner when they misbehaved.

Another incident:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fla-teacher-accused-feeding-autistic-boy-hot-sauce/story?id=21200322
2012 - A Florida elementary school teacher who was fired for feeding an autistic child hot sauce soaked crayons is being re-instated on the orders of a judge who rejected the school district's appeal to keep her out of the classroom.

Lillian Gomez was fired from her job at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimmee, Fla., in February 2012 after school officials found out that Gomez had allegedly put jumbo-sized crayons in a cup and soaked them for days in hot sauce before moving them to a bag that was labeled with the student's name.