This is totally unacceptable! I’ve seen a disturbing trend of special ed students being abused around the country.
The Ray Story report a Cincinnati-area special education teacher duct-taped one student to a chair and forced another to crawl to the bathroom after taking away her walker, according to a lawsuit filed last month by five students and their parents.
A former employee at Columbia Elementary confirmed those claims Thursday on a radio appearance on WLW-AM, saying that former teacher Amanda Kitcho screamed at students in the overcrowded classroom and took away their lunches.
The suit claims Kitcho, who has resigned, intentionally provoked and startled the handicapped children into escalating behavior, threw their possessions into the trash, lied to them, and kept them walled in behind dividers.
Kitcho told one student, who suffers from congenital disorders of glycosylation and cerebellar hypoplasia, she hated her and took away her walker.
“An aide in Kitcho’s classroom reported that Kitcho stated, with respect to [the student] that, ‘She’s crawling around. I’m not putting her in that damn thing every time she’s got to move from center to center. She can crawl,’” the suit claims.
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Makes me wanna cry!
