Mom opts for home schooling after son put in bag

Good for her! I wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome until I was an adult, but the schools back then thought I was lazy and didn't do my school right. By the time I was ending second grade, the school system wanted to put me on medicine so I would be more "manageable" for them. My parents pulled me and my sister from school and started homeschooling all three of us. My sister has graduated from college and I am on my way to graduate from college with honors.

Can't say I blame her!

I hope this mom is also filing charges with the police. It the school suspected the mother had done something like this, she would be charged and the kid would be removed from her care.

This teacher would become a human Pinata and would probably never leave ICU. I make no apologies for my thoughts.

Bag the dirtbags that put him in the bag in the first place !!!

I don't understand how a parent can witness something such as this and not RIP THE TEACHER'S HEAD OFF!!! If that were my child, the teacher and I BOTH would be heading to jail. This is why I homeschool. Too many crazies in the world to trust your children with TOTAL STRANGERS all day. No one is raising my children but my husband and I.

If that is my son that will be the end of that teacher!!!!We need to understand children with special needs and developmental disability they dont want to be like that!!!

I would have that teacher's #$%$ in a bag if that had been my kid.

Whoever is responsible needs to go to jail. I guarantee that if the parent did the same, the child would be removed from the home and the parent would be charged.

Her son IS/was enrolled in a class for Special Needs! Obviously a few of the people commenting know NOTHING about Autism. My son has Aspergers which is on the Autism spectrum, he's highly intelligent, straight A's, Honors classes...won the district spelling bee as a 4th grader competing against 8th graders. Yes he's a bit quirky (needed 2 desks so he could spread out and not have someone sitting too close to him. Doesn't look people in the eye and speaks incessantly about the Civil War), but I've been told that all of the schools in our are would be lucky to have him as he raises their average and makes the school look great academically speaking.
Her child deserved respect and care...as does every single child in our schools regardless of whether some people feel they deserve to be there or not!

A big problem recently isn't schools not having special needs classes or qualified teachers to teach said classes. The problem is parents who think their special needs child should be in regular classes even though they can't handle them. Then the special needs kids disrupt the class and teaching doesn't occur because the teacher has to drop everything to deal with whatever crisis arises. I have nothing against special needs kids, but parents must understand that children with special needs really need to be in special needs classes.

In what world is it ok to put a kid in a duffle bag?!? What is wrong with this teacher?? The teacher needs to be fired and charged with child abuse. Im really apalled that neither has happened. If my kid was in that classroom I would be pulling him out too.

Why are people so cruel nowadays?
It seems more and more people are losing there humanity lately.
I'm sick of it!

The treatment of her son is deplorable. NO matter what the alleged infraction, it doesn't justify what happended to this mother's child. Repeat - child. The teacher should be fired, and criminal prosecution should be considered.

I've seen a lot of weird stuff at the many schools I went to. So much so that I refused to go back to public school by 10th grade and then did home school. Not surprised this could of have happened to that child.

this is why all my children and grand children go to private or charter schools. the public school system is corrupt and they don't learn anything but drugs, boozing, sex, and violence . not to mention the school staff which is worst.

Heaven is not going to be very crowded...I am sitting here in disbelief! I pray that all of those who have negative and cruel comments never have a child with a developmental disability.

This whole "story" just makes me feel sad. The teacher is (at best), a bully. At worst, a really SICK excuse for a life form (notice I didn't say HUMAN being). Children really haven't any rights, worse if the child is "disabled" in some way, including cognitively as it true in this case. Additionally, it reflects badly on the whole state (KY), who already have a lousy reputation "across the board", and has for years (TRUTH, like it or not). My heart goes out to the boy and his mother. She did the right thing. The lack of response by the school superintendant, the teacher that humiliated and tortured that poor boy, AND those who stood by and did NOTHING while the child suffered, is not only immoral, it's also criminal. I hope the mother sues, and that school district is forced to pay not only for "pain and suffering" , but also for her son's LIFETIME education and care. There is a LOT of funding available today through "Autism Speaks", including education and training of teachers and caregivers to those diagnosed with autism, and working in the public school setting. Am sure the mother would win her case. Too bad it will also affect that school district and the REST OF THE CHILDREN there, going forward. Fire the "whole lot" and replace them with those who a) have more than half a brain, and b) give a #$%$ about children and future generations!

People just don't know how common this is all over USA. Public schools are horrible. How about the special ed teacher in Texas who KILLED a student IN class IN FRONT OF the other kids!! She did NOT get fired, charged, jailed, anything! She is now teaching in Virginia. Yep, nothing will be done about it. Oh, and the teacher told the parent she was just doing her job.

Looking back I wish we had pulled the children out and home schooled them too. They are doing great but I believe they would have had a better education and socialization if they had been schooled at home. Schools just are not the same caliber, in any way, that they were 30 years ago.