Indianapolis, Indiana Special Education teacher Trinda Barocas has been accused of poisoning an eight year old student with Autism so he did not have to go on a class field trip to the zoo. According to reports Barocas told a classroom aide the student would misbehave and “maybe he could be sick enough not to attend and we won’t have to deal with it.” Barocas gave the eight year old a peanut butter filled candy bar – knowing the autistic student had peanut allergies. According to the boys mother the child did not eat the candy bar, but the boys mother says the boy has serious allergies to peanuts and, “to tempt a child with something that could take their life — honestly, it blows my mind. I think that she should be held accountable for what she’s done.”
The administration at the school contacted the child’s parents in March after classroom aides reported the abuse. Barocas – the accused teacher left the school in February due to reasons that have nothing to do with the allegations. The lawsuit further alleges that the boy was treated like a caged animal, kept in a cubicle all day and that Baracas repeatidly pinched the child, stood on his foot and drug him around the classroom by his arm.
In 2007 Barocas was put on Administrative Leave after a nurse witnessed her force feeding and improperly restraining a student.
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Makes me cry.
sent my comment before I was done!!
Anyway, makes me cry but I am glad to know she ain’t teaching no more (pardon the bad grammar
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Sad. Terrible, disgusting, sad. If you don’t want to deal with different kinds of children, then you should not have anything to do with a school or any other teaching position.
Allow me to slightly rephrase that… if you don’t want to *lovingly, patiently, and gently* deal with different kinds of children… if some of that is how she was taught to deal with special needs children, then I don’t want to know how long ago it was – suffice it to say – that kind of training is antiquated at best.