After her once happy and loving son became angry and aggressive, a mother trusted her gut and hid a microphone in his backpack. When the principal heard the recording, the boy\u2019s teachers were immediately fired.<\/p>\n
When parents send their children to school, they expect their teachers to care for their students like they were their own. That\u2019s why it was particularly horrifying for Milissa Davis, a loving mother, to learn that she had been offering up her child with special needs to his abusers each time she dropped him off for class.<\/p>\n
When 12-year-old Camden, who has been diagnosed with severe autism, began exhibiting abnormal behavioral changes, Milissa knew something must have happened to her son. The typically sweet and affectionate boy had become aggressive and began wetting the bed. The intuitive mother suspected that his sudden personality change had to do with school. Since Camden couldn\u2019t communicate what was wrong, Milissa came up with the plan to hide a recording device in the child\u2019s backpack, WBRZ reported.<\/p>\n
After Camden came home from school, Milissa listened to what had been recorded that day in his class at Hope Academy in Baton Rouge. What she heard confirmed her fears.<\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s two special needs teachers took turns berating, mocking, and abusing Milissa Davis\u2019 mentally disabled son in front of his entire class.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re just writing the word. What is hard about it?\u201d one of the teachers said in a frustrated tone. The boy tried to answer the teacher but his words were unintelligible. The teacher mimicked the child\u2019s response, mocking his inability to speak clearly. She then pushed him further, asking, \u201cCamden, why don\u2019t you have anything written down? That\u2019s why you can\u2019t sit with everyone. Tell your momma that.\u201d A teacher was also heard saying, \u201cLet\u2019s see what they do with him in f\u2014king public school. He was going to go to Live Oak Middle. Uh uh, he wouldn\u2019t make it for a minute.\u201d
\nMilissa was understandably angry and hurt by what she heard. Knowing she would have a fight ahead of her, she immediately pulled her son out of the school and hired an attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to cry, scream, and do everything I could because it was so bad,\u201d Milissa Davis said. \u201cTo think that I had sent my son there every day, and what had happened before, that I didn\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Milissa released the recording to the public, the school acted quickly by firing the two teachers and publishing a statement, according to KTBS.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recording appears to be a compilation of audio clips, many of which involve private conversations between two adults with no other persons\/children present,\u201d Hope Academy Principal Linda Stone wrote. \u201cThe recording contains regretful conversations between these adults. The parent never brought the recording to the attention of Hope Academy before posting it to social media. The parent has also refused to meet with Hope Academy to discuss the actions we have taken to address the issue. The persons involved in the communications are either no longer with the school or will no longer be with the school after this semester.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe already had issues,\u201d McGehee said. \u201c\u2018I would like to address where my son is seated, that my son has had a behavior change.\u2019 None of those issues were addressed prior to her going and getting the evidence of abuse that was going on with her child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milissa has since transferred Camden to a different school. However, she hopes that the Department of Education will implement a better protocol at Hope Academy to ensure that students, especially special needs children, are protected.<\/p>\n
After the transfer, Camden was reportedly doing well at his new school but still having residual effects from the abuse that occurred at his old school. Only time will tell if he can fully overcome the trauma inflicted by the verbal and psychological abuse.<\/p>\n
Parents should be able to trust that their vulnerable children will not be abused by the educators that care for them. Disturbingly, these dangers are becoming more commonplace in the education system, making alternative schooling more appealing each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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