A North Carolina community is outraged following reports of an elementary school teacher who allegedly poured hot sauce on the hands of an autistic student to stop him from picking his nose.
While the Weddington Hills Elementary school teacher, whose name has not yet been released, began to discipline the child, the school’s principal walked by the classroom. She immediately contacted the child’s mother, Cindy Joseph, who is now fighting tooth and nail to have the educator fired.
“She was reported putting hot sauce on DJ’s fingers because he kept digging in his nose … I don’t think she should be allowed to be teaching, period,” says the livid mother. “She took advantage of him, and needs to be held accountable.”
The child, CJ, is an 11-year-old non-verbal autistic boy, and was unable to tell his mother about the events leading up to his punishment, which makes this incident so much more heartbreaking to me. How can a teacher do something like this to a child, any child, let alone one with a disability? How would she feel if someone did something like this to her child? She should be fired.http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/daily-roundup/north-carolina-teacher-pours-hot-sauce-on-autistic-student-as-punishment/ar-AA7BQo8?ocid=iehp