When we stay silent about things that matter, they don’t get better. Nothing changes when we turn our heads to injustice.
Every day so many of us put our kids on the school bus or we drop them off at the front doors of the school. We tell them we love them and we tell them to have a good day. We imagine them learning math, reading books, hopefully staying out of trouble, eating their lunch and enjoying time outside.
Special needs parents face the same drop off and pick ups. Although the day may look different for our kids. We still send our kids off just like everyone else with hope, faith and trust.
We never imagine our child coming home having had a paper stapled to their head by their teacher’s aid. And we shouldn’t have to imagine or even try to fathom this.
But, it has become a reality for a family after their son with autism had a paper stapled to his head by a teacher’s aid. She stapled the reminder note to his head so he would bring a water bottle to school. This teacher’s aid only received a reprimand letter recommending that they don’t staple papers to a child’s body.
Today, it is a child with autism, a note and a stapler. Tomorrow it could be your daughter, nephew or grand child.
All children need to be protected.
In this case the Boardman school board has failed to protect this child. So, we must do so.
We need your help! We must use our voices so that all our children are protected always.
What can you do to help?
Email or call the school board in Boardman and let them know that this is not acceptable. We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen to another child.
We can’t let anyone steal that hope, faith and trust that we send our kids off with everyday!
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