Boy beaten at school for disabled
"Up to now my son speaks of how he was choked and beaten by the teacher!" said a Chaguanas mother who is pleading with Education Minister Hazel Manning to assist her in finding a school for her son, after she saw her son being physically abused by a teacher at a school for disabled children. "The system has nothing in place for these children, and I need some assistance with my son," she told Newsday. "If I didn’t visit the school that day, I am sure my son would be dead!" Joan Housend, a self-employed mother of two, said she is at her wits’ end hoping to find a proper school for her son, Kerron who is now at home following the incident. "I did not expect that a school for special children would be ‘beating’ children," she said. "My son couldn’t stay in the government primary because the teachers said he was slow, so I found this special school for disabled and slow learning children." Kerron, eight, is autistic and needs a school for special children. According to Housend, the school fees was $250 per month. "He came home one day with his fingers swollen, and he was afraid to go back to the school, he would cry and tremble," she said. Housend said one day she decided to see how he was progressing, and went to the school unannounced. "I heard screaming and crying and when I look I see my son lying on the ground and his teacher was beating him like a snake!" she cried. The mother said Kerron jumped off the ground crying, and she quietly asked for his things to leave. Attempts to contact the school and the investigating officer at the Chaguanas Police Station proved futile.
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