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Hearing this Monday, August 29, 2011

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Altho this is GA , we as parents must be twice as vigilent as parents of

children who can speak and tell. IT is up to us to protect our children

when they are out of our sight. This is a cautionary tale.

I don't reprint this awful stuff to scare people away from schools or DFCS.

They can both protect and help our children. But we are the key.

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FYI – See below from Vance……..

*From:* GA-ChildrensNetwork [mailto:

GA-ChildrensNetwork ] *On Behalf Of *Vance

*Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 1:34 AM

*To:* GA-ChildrensNetwork

*Subject:* [GA-ChildrensNetwork] Abuse of Disabled Childrne - Hearing this

Monday, August 29, 2011

Next Monday, at 10 a.m. at the Office of State Administrative Hearings, 230

Peachtree Street NW, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30303, a preliminary hearing

will be held in the matter of *A.W. v. Fulton County School District*. This

case involves being severely abused by the Fulton County School

District and one of its teachers. Before the school district ever placed

in the class to be abused, the teacher was known by a lot of school

folks to hit, curse at, scream at, isolate, jack up, push down, name call

(including calling the disabled children “little shits,â€) and do other

severely harmful acts to disabled children, including spraying Lysol on the

children.

The issues to be addressed on Monday include DFACS objecting to providing

documents of abuse of disabled children by the Fulton County School District

and its employees even though the children’s names are to be redacted.

Another issue to be addressed is whether the media can cover the full

hearing (’s parents have opened the hearing to the public to try to

prevent what happened to from ever happening again). The media is the

first entity to care about and his peers, and the media’s efforts may

help to stop this horrific abuse from happening so freely in the future.

The administrative law judge has entered an order allowing the media to

attend this Monday, and she will decide on Monday if the media can attend

for the full hearing when witnesses are called to testify.

In addition, the school district has been served with subpoenas to produce

documents this Monday as well as the chairs the children were tied to by the

FCSD and its teacher. The family knows, much after the fact, that was

abused at school, as many reported this, but the family does not know all

the abuse suffered. ’s parents have asked the school district

probably at least 10 times to please tell them what happened to their son,

but to no avail (the district did finally provide documents upon threats of

litigation, but there is information that is needed that is not being

provided). Hopefully ’s parents will learn more next Monday.

The public is invited to attend the hearing this Monday. If you can and

wish to attend, please show your *utmost respect* for this forum, the

administrative law judge, and the process and do not give the administrative

law judge any reason to think less of us parents of our special children.

It is easy to become emotional in such situations, and emotions are

understandable, but we need to present who we really are and a united front,

one that shows the world we are like everyone else, and in fact, that we, as

parents of children with disabilities, have our priorities in order.

The abuse was severe and known. As one administrator put it, “everyone knew

but the parents.†One educator stated, “They can’t talk anyway, so who are

they going to tell?â€

Other comments by educators include the following: “I’ve never worked in a

place like that – it’s just horrendous.â€, “A lot of people saw it.â€,

It’s

pretty ugly.â€, No way you could miss it.â€, Everybody is bullet proof.â€, it

was all “washed under the table,†“I did not want to come back.â€, “the

system sucks,†“Nothing changed,†“Ain’t nothing gonna happen.

Something’s

gotta happen.â€, “I could not sleep at night,†“I told her over and over

–

you are breaking the law.â€, “It was awful. I hated working there, and I’d

never go back there.â€, “the whole situation was horrendous,†“it was

just

horrendous,†“pitiful,†“so bad,†“it was a constant thing . . .

even up to

the last event . . . the same things happened every single time,†“there is

nothing to undo [the harm],†“it’s so upsetting,†“I felt so bad.â€

What is heart wrenching is that and his peers and their parents will

never recover from the abuse these children suffered.

We must all do whatever we can to stop this from ever happening again.

Please share this with all your other Georgia list services, friends, family

members, neighbors.

Chris

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Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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Since he asks at the end for us to share, then I presume it is okay to copy post

and share on other groups?

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> [GA-AdvocatesNetwork] FW: [GA-ChildrensNetwork] Abuse of Disabled Childrne -

> Hearing this Monday, August 29, 2011

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> * *Please note that I have permission - and was asked- to re-post this.

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> Altho this is GA , we as parents must be twice as vigilent as parents of

> children who can speak and tell. IT is up to us to protect our children

> when they are out of our sight. This is a cautionary tale.

>

> I don't reprint this awful stuff to scare people away from schools or DFCS.

> They can both protect and help our children. But we are the key.

> *

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>

> FYI †" See below from Vance……..

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> *From:* GA-ChildrensNetwork [mailto:

> GA-ChildrensNetwork ] *On Behalf Of *Vance

> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 1:34 AM

> *To:* GA-ChildrensNetwork

> *Subject:* [GA-ChildrensNetwork] Abuse of Disabled Childrne - Hearing this

> Monday, August 29, 2011

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>

>

>

> Next Monday, at 10 a.m. at the Office of State Administrative Hearings, 230

> Peachtree Street NW, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30303, a preliminary hearing

> will be held in the matter of *A.W. v. Fulton County School District*. This

> case involves being severely abused by the Fulton County School

> District and one of its teachers. Before the school district ever placed

> in the class to be abused, the teacher was known by a lot of school

> folks to hit, curse at, scream at, isolate, jack up, push down, name call

> (including calling the disabled children “little shits,â€) and do other

> severely harmful acts to disabled children, including spraying Lysol on the

> children.

>

>

>

> The issues to be addressed on Monday include DFACS objecting to providing

> documents of abuse of disabled children by the Fulton County School District

> and its employees even though the children’s names are to be redacted.

> Another issue to be addressed is whether the media can cover the full

> hearing (’s parents have opened the hearing to the public to try to

> prevent what happened to from ever happening again). The media is the

> first entity to care about and his peers, and the media’s efforts may

> help to stop this horrific abuse from happening so freely in the future.

> The administrative law judge has entered an order allowing the media to

> attend this Monday, and she will decide on Monday if the media can attend

> for the full hearing when witnesses are called to testify.

>

>

>

> In addition, the school district has been served with subpoenas to produce

> documents this Monday as well as the chairs the children were tied to by the

> FCSD and its teacher. The family knows, much after the fact, that was

> abused at school, as many reported this, but the family does not know all

> the abuse suffered. ’s parents have asked the school district

> probably at least 10 times to please tell them what happened to their son,

> but to no avail (the district did finally provide documents upon threats of

> litigation, but there is information that is needed that is not being

> provided). Hopefully ’s parents will learn more next Monday.

>

>

>

> The public is invited to attend the hearing this Monday. If you can and

> wish to attend, please show your *utmost respect* for this forum, the

> administrative law judge, and the process and do not give the administrative

> law judge any reason to think less of us parents of our special children.

> It is easy to become emotional in such situations, and emotions are

> understandable, but we need to present who we really are and a united front,

> one that shows the world we are like everyone else, and in fact, that we, as

> parents of children with disabilities, have our priorities in order.

>

>

>

> The abuse was severe and known. As one administrator put it, “everyone knew

> but the parents.†One educator stated, “They can’t talk anyway, so who

are

> they going to tell?â€

>

>

>

> Other comments by educators include the following: “I’ve never worked in

a

> place like that †" it’s just horrendous.â€, “A lot of people saw it.â€,

It’s

> pretty ugly.â€, No way you could miss it.â€, Everybody is bullet proof.â€,

it

> was all “washed under the table,†“I did not want to come back.â€,

“the

> system sucks,†“Nothing changed,†“Ain’t nothing gonna happen.

Something’s

> gotta happen.â€, “I could not sleep at night,†“I told her over and

over †"

> you are breaking the law.â€, “It was awful. I hated working there, and

I’d

> never go back there.â€, “the whole situation was horrendous,†“it was

just

> horrendous,†“pitiful,†“so bad,†“it was a constant thing . . .

even up to

> the last event . . . the same things happened every single time,†“there

is

> nothing to undo [the harm],†“it’s so upsetting,†“I felt so bad.â€

>

>

>

> What is heart wrenching is that and his peers and their parents will

> never recover from the abuse these children suffered.

>

>

>

> We must all do whatever we can to stop this from ever happening again.

>

>

>

> Please share this with all your other Georgia list services, friends, family

> members, neighbors.

>

>

>

> Chris

>

>

> --

> Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

>

>

>

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YES! I would not have re-published without permission.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:43 AM, agirlnamedsuess21 <

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> Since he asks at the end for us to share, then I presume it is okay to copy

> post and share on other groups?

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> > [GA-AdvocatesNetwork] FW: [GA-ChildrensNetwork] Abuse of Disabled

> Childrne -

> > Hearing this Monday, August 29, 2011

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> > *

> > **

> > * *Please note that I have permission - and was asked- to re-post this.

> >

> > Altho this is GA , we as parents must be twice as vigilent as parents of

> > children who can speak and tell. IT is up to us to protect our children

> > when they are out of our sight. This is a cautionary tale.

> >

> > I don't reprint this awful stuff to scare people away from schools or

> DFCS.

> > They can both protect and help our children. But we are the key.

> > *

> >

> >

> >

> > FYI †" See below from Vance……..

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > *From:* GA-ChildrensNetwork [mailto:

>

> > GA-ChildrensNetwork ] *On Behalf Of *Vance

> > *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 1:34 AM

> > *To:* GA-ChildrensNetwork

> > *Subject:* [GA-ChildrensNetwork] Abuse of Disabled Childrne - Hearing

> this

> > Monday, August 29, 2011

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > Next Monday, at 10 a.m. at the Office of State Administrative Hearings,

> 230

> > Peachtree Street NW, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30303, a preliminary hearing

> > will be held in the matter of *A.W. v. Fulton County School District*.

> This

> > case involves being severely abused by the Fulton County School

> > District and one of its teachers. Before the school district ever placed

> > in the class to be abused, the teacher was known by a lot of school

> > folks to hit, curse at, scream at, isolate, jack up, push down, name call

> > (including calling the disabled children “little shits,†) and do

> other

>

> > severely harmful acts to disabled children, including spraying Lysol on

> the

> > children.

> >

> >

> >

> > The issues to be addressed on Monday include DFACS objecting to providing

> > documents of abuse of disabled children by the Fulton County School

> District

> > and its employees even though the children’s names are to be

redacted.

>

> > Another issue to be addressed is whether the media can cover the full

> > hearing (’s parents have opened the hearing to the public to try

to

>

> > prevent what happened to from ever happening again). The media is

> the

> > first entity to care about and his peers, and the media’s

efforts

> may

>

> > help to stop this horrific abuse from happening so freely in the future.

> > The administrative law judge has entered an order allowing the media to

> > attend this Monday, and she will decide on Monday if the media can attend

> > for the full hearing when witnesses are called to testify.

> >

> >

> >

> > In addition, the school district has been served with subpoenas to

> produce

> > documents this Monday as well as the chairs the children were tied to by

> the

> > FCSD and its teacher. The family knows, much after the fact, that

> was

> > abused at school, as many reported this, but the family does not know all

> > the abuse suffered. ’s parents have asked the school

district

>

> > probably at least 10 times to please tell them what happened to their

> son,

> > but to no avail (the district did finally provide documents upon threats

> of

> > litigation, but there is information that is needed that is not being

> > provided). Hopefully ’s parents will learn more next Monday.

>

> >

> >

> >

> > The public is invited to attend the hearing this Monday. If you can and

> > wish to attend, please show your *utmost respect* for this forum, the

> > administrative law judge, and the process and do not give the

> administrative

> > law judge any reason to think less of us parents of our special children.

> > It is easy to become emotional in such situations, and emotions are

> > understandable, but we need to present who we really are and a united

> front,

> > one that shows the world we are like everyone else, and in fact, that we,

> as

> > parents of children with disabilities, have our priorities in order.

> >

> >

> >

> > The abuse was severe and known. As one administrator put it, “everyone

> knew

> > but the parents.†One educator stated, “They can’t talk

anyway, so

> who are

> > they going to tell?â€

> >

> >

> >

> > Other comments by educators include the following: “I’ve never

worked

> in a

> > place like that †" it’s just horrendous.†, “A lot of

people saw

> it.†, It’s

> > pretty ugly.†, No way you could miss it.†, Everybody is bullet

> proof.†, it

> > was all “washed under the table,†“I did not want to come

back.†,

> “the

> > system sucks,†“Nothing changed,†“Ain’t nothing

gonna happen.

> Something’s

> > gotta happen.†, “I could not sleep at night,†“I told

her over and

> over †"

> > you are breaking the law.†, “It was awful. I hated working there,

and

> I’d

> > never go back there.†, “the whole situation was horrendous,â€

“it

> was just

> > horrendous,†“pitiful,†“so bad,†“it was a

constant thing . . .

> even up to

> > the last event . . . the same things happened every single time,â€

> “there is

> > nothing to undo [the harm],†“it’s so upsetting,â€

“I felt so

> bad.â€

> >

> >

> >

> > What is heart wrenching is that and his peers and their parents will

> > never recover from the abuse these children suffered.

> >

> >

> >

> > We must all do whatever we can to stop this from ever happening again.

> >

> >

> >

> > Please share this with all your other Georgia list services, friends,

> family

> > members, neighbors.

> >

> >

> >

> > Chris

> >

> >

> > --

> > Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

> >

> >

> >