Sickening...(Middle)

Do you ever wonder what happens to your children when they leave the house?  Whether its when theyare out with friends are even going to school, what really happens? 

That is what Stuart Chaifetz wondered about his ten year old autistic boy.  Mr. Chaifetz started getting complaints from his sons teachers at school and he wondered what was going on becuase the complaints were out of the ordinary. 

The teachers at his son's school were telling him that his son was hitting teachers and throwing temper tantrums as well as yelling and screaming and crying.  He was surprised becuase his son never acted like that. 

So for six months Mr. Chaifetz and his son's teachers had meetings to see whether he was improving or not as well as try to come up with a game plan to make this behavior stop.  And after six months when nothing changed he decided that he was going to get to the bottom of things.  So he sent his son to school wearing a wire. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tfkscHt96R0

I have inserted the video of what the father had captured.  Along with the father as well as many other people I was shocked to tears at what he discovered. 

You can form your own opionion but I think that it is such a shame that all of that can happen to not just a ten year old boy with autism but to a child at all. 

After I watched that video I thought about it the entire day.  I thought about my little brothers and what I would do if something like that were to ever happen.  I have to much faith in the school system that they go to to think that anything like that would or could happen but at the same time Mr. Chaifetz thought the same thing about his son's school and his teacher's. 

How would you feel as a parent if you found this out? and not only that but how do you feel about it in general?  I don't have any children but I feel sick to my stomach watching this and even after thinking about it.

250=1, Story Eight.

In 250=1, I write stories that are exactly 250 words, including the title. Click this link for more of them. 

These Dead Composers.

“Did you ever wonder,” Tim said to Ayla one day in the hall as they passed each other, “Why these dead composers wrote all this music?”

Ayla just looked at him, unsure where this was going.  She was never really clear on Tim’s points, and, sure, he’s cute, she’d sometimes tell her friends, but he’s so… obscure.  She tended to keep her cello between her and him, not out of fear but as a way of keeping a little distance.

“No?” she asked him back.

“What if it was a message?” Tim wandered on, looking out the window as he spoke.  It was easy to keep a distance from him, Ayla often realized, because he only looked at you, as he talked, sparingly.  Tim would stare out a window as he said hi, or look at his shoes as he asked how your weekend was, or fiddle with a pencil while talking about a professor, and his eyes would slowly sneak over like a bird trying to get from one side of the patio to the other while you were tanning on it, and if they made contact with your eyes they would flicker away and start the journey over.

“A message.” This one was not a question, but Tim went on anyway.

“Maybe all this…” and he waved his hands in a way that could have taken in the school, her cello, or maybe all the music, ever, but then he stopped, and said “Never mind.”

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Mr Bunches did not want to be at the diner eating ice cream that day. (Life With Unicorns)

And he didn't want his picture taken, either.