Special Ed Kindergartner Was Allegedly Tied up by Aide

2008_08_doll.jpgA Queens mother is filing a $6 million suit after a school aide restrained her five-year-old daughter, a special-ed kindergartner, by binding her to a cafeteria bench with her own sweater. Marissa Chunisingh discovered the treatment that her daughter Christyn was receiving in school when the girl began tying up one of her dolls with a scarf because she was “being bad.” Someone also reported to Chunisingh that Christyn, who is in special-ed for a speech disability, was “strapped down after she was found locked in a classroom by herself - screaming at the top of her lungs.” No one from the school or the city has responded to Chunisingh’s allegations, which are currently under investigation.

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give me a break, if you had witnessed what that doll did, you would have tied it up too.

Do you think velcro would have been less objectionable? At what age does swaddling become child abuse?

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