Children mocked and held in headlocks by staff at special needs school

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1. As someone who worked in education and is neurodiverse… Jesus Christ this is awful

2. Why the fuck do these people go into special needs education if they so clearly hate special needs children?

3. My favourite part is how you can apparently open a special needs independent school with no experience of teaching or the SEND sector.

   Imagine if you opened a building company with no experience of building? Or a medical practice without being a doctor?

   What the fuck are we doing that any random spiv can buy a building, pack it full of the most vulnerable children, then hire a bunch of violent assholes to abuse them and write down they’re caring?

4. Everyone involved must be charged, either with child neglect, making threats to kill or GBH as appropriate. None of them should be allowed to work with children or vulnerable adults ever again.

5. I think I’d be looking at a long old jail sentence if my kid was under the “care” of these scumbags.

   Shut the place down and lock them up.

6. I know a lovely person who worked in a special needs school. They broke her nose and she has a lot of scars. Those ‘kids’ can be dangerous, and if it’s a 17 year old with serious mental issues and the muscles of an adult, it can be a real risk of serious harm. There was this one 17 year old who kept threatening to rape her, and he had assaulted women before.

   You need to be the right kind of person to deal with that situation in a safe and responsible manner. Clearly these were not the right kind of person.

7. Unless the special need was for a headlock, they shouldn’t be doing that

8. This is extremely commonplace. Care workers, teachers, nurses and even pharmacists have an alarming number of ableist bullies within their ranks.

9. Fucking hate stories like this. To dehumanise children with additional needs is monstrous. I can’t fathom the need to be so cruel. I’ve been lucky that my three autistic kids haven’t had to go through this, but out in the community, and as they become adults, I know there’s a high possibility they’ll meet bastards like this, and they’ll have to endure cruel behaviour.