In her first week in the Central Bucks School District, a teacher told Alyssa K. to allow a student to self-stimulate naked on the bathroom floor and watch from the door.
The special education teacher assured her, a personal care assistant hired to work with the autistic boy, that allowing the behavior was OK, Alyssa said, and that his parents knew about it.
It would happen almost daily. Alyssa, whose job was to provide one-on-one support to the child, understood from the teacher and classroom aide that they had done the same thing last year in the Jamison Elementary School classroom.
"I allowed her to convince me it was normal," Alyssa said in an interview this month.
But there was more. And Alyssa, who had previously worked in another district, was concerned.
Repeatedly, the teacher allowed the student to remain naked in the classroom in front of other students while she mocked him, Alyssa said. Sometimes the teacher or the aide would pin the student, naked, into his desk with their body weight to force him to keep working after they had confiscated his speech device — the...
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