Fwd:: Teacher punishes 9-year-old autistic boy by putting him in a bag

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Stop Mercer County, KY school from abusing autistic children.

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When Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris's teacher had stuffed him in a gym bag and left him in the hallway as punishment.

" When I walked in, " told CBS News, " I went down his hallway, and I saw this big green bag laying in the floor beside the [teacher's] aide, and I saw it moving. " Then heard a voice come from inside the bag: “Momma, is that you?”

demanded her son be released immediately, but allegedly the bag was tied so tightly the teacher's aide struggled to open it. When finally got out, his mom says he was sweaty and uncommunicative.

Lydia Brown, a freshman at town University, is autistic, too. When she heard about Chris's ordeal at school

, she started a petition on Change.org demanding the Mercer County school district discipline the teacher who put in the bag and require its teachers to complete training on interacting with autistic children. Click here to sign Lydia's petition now.

At a meeting with school officials last week, learned this wasn't the first time Chis had been stuffed in the duffel bag as punishment. The teachers allegedly referred to the duffel as a “therapy bag,” but lacking even basic training for working with autistic children, were unable to explain how confining to a drawstring bag constituted “therapy” of any kind.

Here’s the worst part: after her meeting, says she rec

eived no guarantee that this kind of abuse wouldn’t happen again -- either to or to other students in Mercer County schools. That’s just not acceptable to , or to the 12,000 people who’ve already signed Lydia’s petition on Change.org. Lydia is hoping to deliver the petition to the Mercer County school board at their next meeting. The school board won’t be able to ignore this issue when they see the thousands of people angry about Chris’s treatment and calling for changes.

Please sign Lydia’s petition to get Mercer County schools to fire Chris’s teacher, and to get the school district to require its staff to complete comprehensive training on i

nteracting with autistic children. Thanks for being a change-maker, - and the Change.org team

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