When my boyfriend is away for the summer and I see really cute couples together
I’m just like:
Kickass Dad of the Day: When Stuart Chaifetz learned that his 10-year-old son, Akian, was being violent and disruptive in class, he was puzzled. He knew Akian, who has autism, to be mild-mannered and sensitive, and had a hunch that something more was going on. But after several meetings with a team of school officials created to help special-needs students, nothing changed. So Chaifetz did what any concerned parent would do.
On the morning of Friday, February 17, 2012, I wired my son and sent him to school. That night, when I listened to the audio my life changed forever. I heard my son being bullied by his teacher and aide. The six and a half hours of audio I had proved that my son wasn’t hitting the teacher because there was something wrong with him — he was lashing out because he was being mocked, mistreated and humiliated. His outbursts were his way of expressing that he was being emotionally hurt at school.
The New Jersey father has since launched a website full of damning evidence and aFacebook page, and he is petitioning the state to change legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired. The aide has been fired, but the rest of the staff have merely been relocated.
“I seek a full and public apology from all those adults who were in my son’s class for what they did to him,” Chaifetz says. “It is also far past time that these issues are allowed to be hidden from public view.”
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I really don’t have the words to accurately express how angry this makes me.
All the awards for you sir. And for your kid standing up for himself.
After personally working with people (both young and old) who have disabilities, I know how fragile their psyches are. Many do not understand what is going on around them or some are oblivious to it altogether, but that does not give anyone the right to treat them in such a terrible way. What kind of person would be so cruel as to mock and humiliate these kids, laughing at their ticks and practically blaming them for their own disabilities? This is completely unacceptable.
Power to you Mr. Chaifetz!
Much want! If ever unable to think of what to get me as a christmas/birthday/because I love you gift….hint hint.
