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A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back.

The early-April incident would’ve been upsetting in any school, but it happened at the Garrison School, part of a special education district where at one time students were arrested at the highest rate of any district in the country. The teacher was charged with battery weeks later after pressure from the student’s parents.

It’s been about eight months since the U.S. Department of Education directed Garrison to change the way it responded to the behavior of students with disabilities. The department said it would monitor the Four Rivers Special Education District, which operates Garrison, following a ProPublica and Chicago Tribune investigation in 2022 that found the school frequently involved police and used controversial disciplinary methods.

But the department’s Office for Civil Rights regional office in Chicago, which was responsible for Illinois and five other states, was one of seven abolished by President Donald Trump’s administration in March; the offices were closed and their entire staff was fired.

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[–] brian@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 weeks ago

Truthfully, it's far from relevant that the kid is autistic.

If you drag a child by the ankle, especially as a teacher, you're a 100% piece of shit.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 39 points 2 weeks ago

Weird that the Trump administration is trying to collect a national database on people with autism even as they're eliminating programs to help them or even merely to oversee how they're treated by other institutions.

If the goal of tracking them down and keeping tabs on them isn't to help them, then what is it?

(That's a rhetorical question).

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shoulda seen the sped-ed school i went to.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm looking at this and wondering if the people who are up in arms ever went to an LD school.

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Or, to some extent, how ND kids are treated at any school. We weren’t physically abused where I went but it was obvious that we weren’t wanted. most of the kids like me I grew up with have already OD’d or killed themselves in adulthood