I must catch a bus in just a few moments. One wonders about the community of Columbia, Tennessee and about the training of Ms. Tasha Walker. One wonders how these stories keep coming. Shame on Columbia, Tennessee. Shame, shame…
S.K.
Excerpt from The Inclusion Daily Express:
Mom Says Educators Stripped, Locked Up 9-Year-Old Son
(The Daily Herald)
September 22, 2009
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE– [Excerpt] Maury County judge has issued an emergency injunction against educators at Joseph Brown Elementary School after a developmentally disabled student was allegedly stripped down to his underwear and locked in a seclusion room.
“I don’t want this ever to happen to another child,” said Spring Hill resident Michelle Parks, mother of the 9-year-old boy. “My child’s rights have been stripped from him.”
Parks alleges she was called to the school Tuesday to pick up her son after he had acted out in his special education class taught by Tasha Walker.
After the mother got to the school, Parks said she was led to a door with a small window. When the door was opened she saw her son standing and crying in the middle of the room wearing only his underwear.
She said the first image that came to her mind was a jail cell.
“It’s just nothing that you should be put in,” she said, while fighting back tears. “I guess if he had committed a crime or if he had been locked up in jail, but emotionally it’s not good for a 9-year-old child.”
Entire article:
Mom: School officials stripped, locked up son
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/2009/red/0922d.htm
Planet of the Blind 
If you would have followed the story you would have found that the judge lifted the injunction against the seclusion room. You would also find that the student was not stripped of his clothing nor locked into the seclusion room! The comment was not mean-spirited as you want to call it. It is wrong for you to pass judgement when you know nothing of the situation other than what was posted in the media. Did it ever occur to you that this was a lawyer looking for 15 minutes of fame and not thinking of the acutal facts that were involved. You would also find that the judge also stated in the decision of lifting the injunction that “it takes a special teacher to work with these children who are disadvantaged.” For you to post something as the questioning of the teacher and the community then maybe you should get the factual information of the situation. You read one article and assumed that it was an abusive situation. This is false information and I refused to let anyone such as yourself post horrible things about this community or the teacher for that matter. PLEASE STOP PASSING JUDGEMENT WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW THE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!
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I am puzzled by the previous comment as “a Maury County Judge issued an emergency injunction” which certainly indicates some evidence of truth in the charges. I hope all who post at POTB will continue to inform us of abuses of all type whenever they occur instead of becoming afraid because of a mean-spirited comment like the one above!
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Before you read an article such as this poorly written article that does not state any of the facts you might want to do some research on it. Shame on you for posting an article that is full of lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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