NO child should be singled out like that, EVER, under ANY circumstances.

Discipline, if appropriate, should be done as a private matter between child, teacher(s) and parent(s).

To be singled out like that and treated in such a horrific manner, and by the one person in the classroom who they should be able to trust to protect them, would be damaging to ANY child, let alone an autistic one; and would only serve to exacerbate any behavioural problems – in ANY child.

Such treatment must be extremely psychologically damaging to a child; with particular regard to their self esteem, and their perception of and trust in authority figures. And this psychological damage is, in the long term, likely to cause behavioural problems far greater than the one it was a very misguided attempt to solve.

Even if a child’s behaviour did ‘improve’ in the short term, as a result of such cruelty, it would be for totally the wrong reasons (i.e. terror), and as a result behaviour problems would no-doubt resurface at a later date as a far more serious and deep-rooted problem; which could have been avoided by dealing appropriately in the first place with what was a fairly minor problem.

I just cannot believe that ANYONE could even think of treating a child in such a manner – that such a concept would even cross their mind.

What kind of mind must a person have to even dream up such an appalling concept in the first place; let alone actually go through with it.

I wouldn’t even allow such a person to be left alone with children, let alone be employed to teach them. I shudder to think just WHAT this person must be teaching them.