The Effects Of Child Abuse In Schools

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There is a classic story of the young child coming home from school and saying to his mother, “My teacher was mean today.” Today, this is not a story of a student feeling that his workload is too heavy or that he feels his teacher doesn’t care for him because he wasn’t called on. Today this is a story of actual abuse. The reporting of child abuse in today’s schools is greatly surpassing any recorded evidence from past years. This abuse is causing controversy in schools all over the nation. Alarmingly, the statistics for child abuse in public schools include a population of children who need protection because their inability to protect themselves is even less than the average young student. These children are our mentally and physically challenged students. Mentally disabled students are in the care of institutions meant to nurture and protect them. The people in charge of these students take advantage of their authority to a vast degree. It is universally believed that a teacher’s job is described as one that helps guide children to a successful future. Qualifications for this position include providing a safe, nurturing environment. Acceptable types of discipline are taught to teachers and workplace standards are supposed to be adhered to. A professional, safe classroom allows students to feel comfortable to learn, function, and develop the tools to excel. Families of mentally disabled students should be worry-free knowing that their children are in a safe learning environment.
Child abuse is an unthinkable crime under any circumstance, let alone abuse to children who are typically more helpless and less able to communicate than their peers. Incidents of student abuse in schools are not always reported. This is d...

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...one to eliminate the possibility of abuse in the first place? Child abuse in today’s schools toward special needs students has risen tremendously in the past few years. A teacher that abuses a student might serve jail time but the majority of cases lead to the firing of the staff member so that they are free to seek employment at another institution of the time the teacher is just fired. The institutions that these young children attend need to raise the qualifications of the teachers and aids they hire. The people that are the worst candidates for working with special needs kids are still out there in the job market. Children with special needs deserve to be taught and cared for with respect and professionalism. Their families deserve to have the piece of mind that when they drop their children off at school they are being treated as they are at home.

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