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marble falls

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Wed Apr 11, 2018, 05:03 PM Apr 2018

Louisiana Private School Teacher and Aide Fired After Mom Secretly Records Them Mocking Her Autistic


Louisiana Private School Teacher and Aide Fired After Mom Secretly Records Them Mocking Her Autistic 12-Year-Old Son
The hero mother planted a recording device to prove what was happening.
By Brad Reed / Raw Story
April 11, 2018, 8:09 AM GMT

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Local news station WBRZ reports that Baton Rouge-based Hope Academy is firing both a teacher and a teacher’s aide who were heard ridiculing the autistic boy’s intelligence while being secretly recorded by a tape recorder planted by the boy’s mother.

“Camden, why don’t you have anything written down?” one adult in the recording can be heard saying to the boy. “That’s why you can’t sit with everyone. Tell your momma that.”

“Let’s see what they do with him in f*cking public school,” adds another adult. “He was going to go to Live Oak Middle. Uh ah, he wouldn’t make it for a minute.”

One of the people in the recording can also be heard sarcastically imitating noises that the boy makes.

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Hope Academy says that it has fired one of the adults in the recording effective immediately, while the other adult in the recording will be formally terminated within the next two weeks.




http://hopeacademybr.org/ is this school's website. They are an academy for autistic and children with other difficulties.
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Louisiana Private School Teacher and Aide Fired After Mom Secretly Records Them Mocking Her Autistic (Original Post) marble falls Apr 2018 OP
Link to this story... CurtEastPoint Apr 2018 #1
Wanna bet those aren't real educators? procon Apr 2018 #2
wait d_r Apr 2018 #3
They're just following their beloved malaise Apr 2018 #4
But you just can't let someones else kid interfere with a job! marble falls Apr 2018 #5

procon

(15,805 posts)
2. Wanna bet those aren't real educators?
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 05:45 PM
Apr 2018

They're likely just unskilled workers with no formal teacher training or experience, no advanced degrees and no state license. Private schools have all kinds of carve outs and exemptions that allow them to bypass the rigorous educational requirements for public school teachers.

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