Followup to "The Terrible.....Eights???"

So a few days have gone by, and we've gleaned some additional information about what was allegedly a case of the terrible eights.  It turns out there was quite a bit more to the story about Tyler's behavior at school.

In the days subsequent to my previous post, we were called several more times about Tyler's behavior.  After talking to the new teacher, and Ashley having to go to his class more than once, we've decided we're going to have to homeschool him unless we're able to find a suitable alternative to his current classroom. 

For starters, Tyler's new "teacher" most likely has no teaching degree and has had no training in special education until just the other day; and that amounted to all of an 8 hour class.  In addition to these lovely revelations, we found out Tyler had been locked in a padded room not even as big as a coat closet, with no light whatsoever, for an undisclosed amount of time; this was a "timeout".  Not only that, but this was done during recess, unlike a normal timeout, and he was not given any bathroom breaks.  Ultimately, he took his clothes off and went to the bathroom in this room (we're assuming he took off his clothes so as not to get them messy).  This information was substantially different than the information we were initially given about the first incident. 

I guess I won't get into it much more than I already have, except to say that even beyond what I've told here, there's evidence of substantially more neglect and abuse on the part of the classroom staff; probably to other children as well.  Obviously we will be contacting the appropriate people at the school, the district, and beyond. 

To end this post, I'll give out a bit of advice.  Parents, if you have school age children, ESPECIALLY if they're involved in special education or another non-typical classroom environment, keep a close eye on them.  If you start getting reports of them suddenly acting up, or they are suddenly very unhappy about going to school, INVESTIGATE!!!  Talk to your kids, talk to the teachers, find out as much as you possibly can.  If something doesn't fit, or doesn't seem quite right, trust that feeling and dig deeper!!!  Your childrens' safety is at stake!!!