Aug 18, 2017, The Clarksville (TN) Leaf-Chronicle: Former Clarksville teacher blames school system in autistic child abuse case http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2017/08/18/teacher-blames-school-system-autistic-child-abuse-case/578594001/
A former kindergarten teacher facing a federal lawsuit and child abuse charges told school officials that she was in a "no-win" situation and did not receive requested training on how to deal with a child with autism who was disrupting her classroom.
St. Bethlehem Elementary School teacher Bonnie Conn resigned in February after two incidents in which she was reprimanded for dragging a child out of her classroom by his arm and leaving him crying and unsupervised in a hallway. ...
According to her school personnel file, Conn was reassigned from the school to her home on Feb. 10 and resigned while "termination charges were pending."...
In December, she said, she asked for someone to get the child at 10 a.m. but no one was available and he disrupted her class all day long. Another teacher took him three times but he would not behave for her either. She said the child was counseled but did not improve.
Conn said that she had asked for training for children with autism before she knew she was getting an autistic child in her classroom and notes she was "not an inclusion teacher for kindergarten."
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Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
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UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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