Abuse Alleged at Lakes High School

Parents of severely disabled students are suing the Clover Park School District, says the Tacoma News-Tribune:

According to a police report, two paraeducators and a 17-year-old student said they saw a teacher slam Nam Su Chong into a locker in March 2004, apparently after he grabbed her arm. One of the para-educators also said she saw the teacher “at least 20 times” shove the teen so hard he lost his balance.

She told police she informed another teacher about the locker incident and another instance of the teacher shoving Chong, but it didn’t appear the teacher reported it to district administrators.

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In the claim, she says she saw paraeducators joking in front of a student about the teen being on her period and a teacher maliciously teasing her son. She said the same teacher called her son, who’s half black, and the other students “slaves.”

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Yukon said she worked as a substitute paraeducator with the teacher for three days and the teacher did not appear to be using a curriculum. When she asked why, Yukon recalled, the teacher said, “This is a glorified babysitting job. These kids are too stupid to learn anything.”

This can't go well, for anyone. The quotes and the allegations are horrible; one wonders where the truth really lies.