Mother pulls daughter out of school after she comes home covered in bruises
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2024
- A second parent has come forward with concerns at one Milwaukee Public Elementary School. It's concerns she found so troubling, she pulled her student out a week into the school year before things got even worse.
Two weeks ago, we told you about Brooklyn.Brooklyn's mother, Johnetta Fort, contacted TMJ4 after her daughter was allegedly pulled out of her wheelchair by another student at Gaenslen Elementary.
Fort shared with us and showed pictures of Brooklyn's five teeth that were knocked out during the incident.
Jennifer Talley reached out to TMJ4's Jenna Rae after seeing that story.
"My daughter was actually a classmate of Brooklyn's in special education room 111. I knew Brooklyn, and I also removed my child from Gaenslen after she was mistreated and injured at school," Talley said.
Talley's six-year-old daughter, Franceska, is also non-verbal and uses a wheelchair part of the time, similar to Brooklyn. A week into the school year, Talley pulled her daughter out.
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If your child gets bruises, go to the hospital and make a police report. You can fight placement. I had to get a lawyer.
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I was thinking the same!?!
Retired IEP Paraeducator here, this should have involved Police and CPS investigators AT THAT SCHOOL!
I am a paraprofessional at a special education school and this is outrageous. I hope the mom gets a lawyer and sues, as well as, press charges.
As a teacher I have the unpopular opinion that some children would do better in a dedicated special education school. Given staffing realities, it is simply impossible for most teachers to deal with special needs students, much less honor the contrasting IEPs of a half dozen students. Mainstreaming these students means that each one requires a paraprofessional to assist them, and that simply doesn’t happen. A special ed environment would allow for the smaller classes and individual attention that these children need to thrive.
As a sped teacher, I agree.
@@kimberlywoodbury1739It sounds like she wasn’t mainstreamed? I worked as a para. I was in classrooms 1/1 or 1/2 with these mainstreamed students!
This is the problem. They pack the rooms with children that have high needs and don’t give more support. The teacher is overwhelmed and the paras are paid less then McDonalds. The paras I see at my school are the ones being abused by violent kids. There is no excise for what happened to her sweet girl. But i hope parents realize public school are not the best place for a high needs child. They have to accept very violent disturbed children who can hurt their child. It should be required that parents know when this happens.@@kimberlywoodbury1739
As a retired special education teacher I am absolutely appalled. What this school did is egregious. I wish this parent the best for her daughter and my prayers.
Did u see the 2 cases of the kids and the schools the 12 yr on the bus being choked out til he had multiple strokes and the 7yr old hung in bathroom
This happened to us too many time in the 90’s, only difference nobody cared. I’m glad they are finally listening to children…🙏
No doubt. I was discriminated against, denied an education and psychologically @bused ages 7 through 18 because of a motor disability in my hands. It would have been easily accommodated by just having me write less.
Same. In the late 1970’s I was hit HARD in the back of the head by my fourth grade teacher, all the time.
One time, he hit me so hard that my head went foreword and hit the lip of the desk and I got a very fat lip and a bloody nose. His answer to the class about my bloody nose and lip ?? “Next time, she’ll know the answer when I ask it” (I didn’t know the answer to the math problem he wrote up on the chalkboard. )
It ruined my zest for learning, that year in school did…and from that day foreword (the bloody lip/nose day) I truly thought I was stupid. For years I though I was stupid. Was a horrendous experience. It defined my entire school experience after that. I just gave up. I quit trying all together.
Just terrible. Just thinking of it makes me terribly sad for me as a child. I was a very kind little girl, I didn’t deserve that. No child should be hit or beat because you can’t understand something.
My ex used to tell me stories about being locked in the closet frequently in school. He couldn’t even read until high school when a teacher took extra time with him (turns out he was dyslexic and never tested), he dropped out at 16. This was late 70s early 80s
This is so sad. These kids deserve better
I agree!
Makes me SICK 😡
Excellent job, mother, for advocating for your daughter!!!
She should have gone to the hospital and made a report right then and there.
Anyone that puts their hands on any child, let alone a non-verbal special needs child, is the lowest form of life.
Sometimes the hiring is just a warm body! Education, Training, Supervision, and Unfortunately Big $$$$$$$$$$ to hire the right staff. Not to mention ❤!
They didn’t say how the bruising occurred. She could have fallen. I worked with a child who had bruised shins from climbing all over the playground equipment. I wasn’t able to identify when those bruises occurred. You can’t just assume that she was abused.
@@annmcginnis6531You are correct. These paraprofessionals are not paid well. It’s a really HARD job. Legally, I thought they had to be under the guidance of a CERTIFIED special ed teacher (there has been a shortage for a long time). My guess is the entire building is not well managed.
agreed
I didn't see the earlier story as that poor little girl who had teeth knocked out when she was yanked from her wheelchair.
I wonder if they knew how that happened?
Wow what horrific stories about these two little girls. It’s very unsettling to think this is likely the tip of the iceberg. I wish this mother the best of luck in finding a better place for her daughter’s schooling. This school and district need to be thoroughly investigated by a third party.
Like bruising is bad enough, and I am glad this mother caught it and is able to do what she can, which sounds pretty substantial and I am glad she contacted the media to confirm the other mother's suspicions, but the other mother's daughter...........TEETH knocked out, not even one MULTIPLE TEETH!!!! My goodness, these two instances alone should have the cops/CPS/ SOMEONE of authority all over that school. Absolutely unacceptable. Heartbreaking. My kid is low needs, but I am still terrified of people taking advantage of him since he won't talk about anything that goes on at school.... absolutely unacceptable. Yeah he is super frustrating sometimes, but I can't see doing anything more than accidentally bruising him from time to time by, idk... grabbing him a bit too abruptly to prevent him from getting hit by a car!! Ya know?! Geeze. I am actually the one often getting injured from the kids trying to keep them safe or just play with them, lol, or idk we are somehow banging heads, stepping on my feet, or they are throwing something hard at my face, lol....😅 Help me.... But seriously put cameras in especially special needs classrooms! Absolutely no excuse, and if there are true accidents happening it protects the workers too and can help with training to prevent future injuries...smh.
I’m sorry that she’s bruised. I hope she will heal and recover quickly
All schools should have cameras. I worked for a program back in the 80’s that had two way mirrors and a place for parents to come and watch. This was before cameras were used.
What a joke that they say their students safety is their top priority. Obviously, it’s not and they should be shut down!!!!!
Yes that would solve the problem lol why do you even bother sharing such incredibly stupid opinions?
Troll much?
Oh those poor kids! WHAT IN THE WORLD?!!!
This used to happen to me. I was viciously bullied by other kids in my first school. So badly that my mom had to take me out.
The teachers absolutely ignored it and said “they’re kids”. I was covered in cuts and bruises on a daily basis. I have no memory of that school BESIDES the attacks on the playground.
My second school was almost as bad, but verbal rather than physical. Except the teachers. They began to get physical with me and by brother because my brother was in the special needs class and I was on the bus with him.
I homeschool my kids for now. They can go to public school when they beg me to, or when they’re at least in middle school. Im not risking anything on them.
Praying for the child..
My mother taught at Auer Avenue for 30 years and told me once they was a kid with a heart implant/device who was being physically bullied, even after the mother warned the teachers that any sort of violence or over the top physical contact could kill him. My mom actually had to take the mother to the side and tell her what was going on, warning her to take the kid out of the school because administrators weren't going to do anything.
your mother is a coward. she didn't do her job to protect her students. shame on her.
@@irynafox3593 What are you going on about? She did, that's why she contacted the mother privately and told her what was going on. She wasn't the kid's classroom teacher fyi.
@@baller84milw , she was obligated to report the abuse to admin. not to "take the mother to the side''.
you are trying to portrait your mother as a hero. she is not. she didn't do her job.
@@irynafox3593 She did and they didn't do anything-which I already stated. Learn how to read 🤡
@@irynafox3593she’d probably already talked to the admin who weren’t doing anything. I’ve had a principal tell me that well, your son is in public school. This is what it’s like. Then didn’t really do much. He was being constantly harassed by a certain student. There was nothing I could do. No open spots, and he wasn’t being physically harmed, so I couldn’t force a transfer. I changed his school for the following year because thankfully we live in a choice school district.
Omg. I'm so sorry. The staff needs investigated.
some of the staff need jailed
This is horrible I’m autistic and I can’t imagine what these moms r going through 😞
Love and hugs to you both, you both deserve so much better ❤❤❤❤❤
Some of the meanest people I have met are teachers and nurses.
This kind of stuff happened to my middle son who was nonverbal. It happened in preschool so I took him out. It happened again in first grade and scarred him so bad that he’s a teen now and still has nightmares about it and now that he is talking, he is starting to tell me that crap that happened. I knew something was wrong when he saw one of the teachers out in the community and got so scared and ran away.
Only cowards attack kids.
anyone who does that..... their lives are forfeit imo
They didn’t say whether she was yanked by another student or an adult? Also, were those kids just playing or was it malicious? We need more information.
Years ago my daughter was abused at the same school and nothing was done about it my daughter is now an adult she also got abused at 53rd street school for those that are from here know that I’m not just in the comments section making up a lie because they know both schools are here in Milwaukee, so long story short my daughter has a gash on each of her eyebrows one from each school I reached out to more than one attorney and no one wanted to go up against MPS I felt helpless so both times I just had to sadly take it.
There were openings at that Ganesland because it is terrible. I had an employer that hired me right away because the had openings. I quickly found out that there were openings because everyone quit with good cause after about a month.
I had my daughter not only physically handled badly but mentally and emotionally abused by a teacher. Nothing was done about it.
Poor child, I'm so sorry
These school people should be ashamed of themselves!
Handicapped none the less. Just disgusting 😡. Those people in charge at that school need jail time and not allowed to deal with any child anymore.
These are innocent, precious children. 😔💔💕These monsters that hurt kids need to be in jail😡
Why are there no police and or CPS investigating.
The State obviously doesn’t give a rats ass about government child abuse rampant in their schools, and would rather ignore it and cover it up!
Disgusting!
Is it a Democratic State?
Meanwhile this was any one of us that showed up with our child bruise like that we'd be in jail and the kid would be taken from us! Make it make sense anytime a kid shows up with bruises there should be an investigation in somebody should be charged!
Theres some sick people in this world!so disgusting, these children deserve much better!
She’s much calmer and more polite than I would have been!
Was a police report immediately filed?! This is abuse and the perpetrators must be jailed!😊
This makes me sick those so called teachers should be fired and charged
I am so sorry for you, I raised a special ed child. I'm praying for her and you❤.
Good mama! I had to do the same thing for a preschool when my son was screaming “sit down” at 2, and then refusing to go to preschool? A week later the teacher was arrested for breaking the foot of another classmate. I wish the owner was charged because I made a complaint and she refused to believe us or that my son was learning this at school.
My special needs child was very lucky to be in school for children disabled. When school districts learn there was money for each child. That is when the environment went down hill. If parents don’t speak up and demand needed services nothing will happen.
Homeschool for the win❤
Homeschhool with private therapy and no peer interaction is not a win. Private therapy is expensive and a violation of the law for the public school not to provide appropriate placement, support services, and education.
@Flipper86 excuse in our homeschool meetups my kids have plenty of interactions. Good day
Social interaction is much less likely for a child with significant disabilities.
Homeschool for all of our children, we didn't allow playdates with a biter when they were babies why allow it as they get older? They aren't teaching academics anymore and what business do good people have with trash. None.
@ As a former special education teacher, it’s not uncommon to get bit (hit or kicked) as a teacher or para working with non speaking students or students with emotional/behavior disorders. Peers biting (hitting, or kicking) a peer also happens. Not as often because we work to structure the day to avoid behaviors and aggression, but students who struggle to self regulate and communicate can be aggressive.
Prayers for this family and love to heal and have a safer and brighter future.🙏💕
The poor kids! 😢
Her schooltime would have been hell if she hadn't got a mother willing to advocate for her like that ❤ so within her misfortune she is also blessed. Hopefully arrangement can be taken for a better option!
I don’t care how much a parent wants their handicapped child to be “normal”, they just won’t ever be. My brother has cerebral palsy and there was a school nearby dedicated to children with special needs. The entire staff had special training to take care of the children and there was extra medical staff on site. My brother loved it and made many friends there. He didn’t care about being at a “normal” school and us girls were envious of his school. They had alot of fun and the kids still learned. My brother went on to a regular school for JH & HS and has worked for IBM since he was 21, without a college degree. This was also a public school so no extra charge to the families. Regular schools are just not equipped to handle children who need more care and supervision and we shouldn’t expect it of them. My brother’s elementary school prepared him to stand up for himself in JH & HS and to not care or just ignore kids who were bullies. He never had any problems. We need to bring these schools back.
If one more politician says they care about the education of children, and the health and welfare of children I am going to scream.
Advocate ☆ Great interview! Wonderful Mom❤ So sad this is happening to children/families...Hope there will be a follow-up story with a promising plan.
This needs to be addresses immediately. No excuses. Shameful. Whiever is being paid large salaries for running these schools needs to be let go & straighten this up now! 😢
This whole mess is going to end up in litigation. What about the child's trauma? That needs to he addressed as well.
Only ONE way to be sure they're safe, HOMESCHOOL.
There might be an aggressive kid in their classroom. Or one who has out of control violent meltdowns, putting others at risk of injury.
There should be a camera in the classroom for the administration's use only because of privacy concerns.. Such an easy thing to do.
I have a 5-year-old autistic granddaughter, who is verbal. my daughter won't put her in public school because she's terrified of what might happen
Need to call the police and CPS
My daughter who is not special needs, was yanked by her arm and tossed outside the classroom by her teacher one year. When she came home with the bruises I went to school and yanked her teacher outside by her collar. She and I had a firm talk about the dangers of putting her hands on my daughter ever again. I let her know how lucky she was that moment that I didn’t kick her ass. When the Principal showed up he and I had a talk about the coverage the school was going to get over the incident. He interviewed some classmates and it was confirmed my daughter was accosted by the teacher. Her classroom assignment was changed and we had no problems with my daughter the rest of the year. If my daughter had deserved to be thrown out of the classroom, I would have done it. Yes, in front of her classmates, but I’ll be damned if I let anyone put hands on my child. The teacher was reassigned to another school at the end of the year. She also had to have an aid in the classroom at all times. Some people should not be teachers. I recognize the frustration and the patients needed to be a teacher. But putting your hands on a child is not acceptable standing by and watching someone else put their hands on the child is not acceptable.
In 1983 the Dept of Ed. put out a report "Nation at risk".
Almost none of the recommendations were followed.
Now, we pay the price.
Vote "yes" for any school tax. Goddamit. Or this is what we get.
My grandmother told me that even during the Great Depression, she always voted for schools.
These are people we are supposed to be able to trust with our children. When actually they shouldn't be anywhere near kids! Abusing handicapped children, how disgusting. What goes around comes around! I truly believe this.
I still remember being dragged across the floor at 4 years old by Mrs. Pullman. I'm 60. What kind of an impression did it make that I still even remember the lady's name? It's hard being a little kid.
They’re failing miserably at student safety if one child had her teeth knocked out and another went home in bruises.
call cps on the school. thats what they would do if a parent sent their child to school like that. my friends son fell of a chair and cps put him in a foster home for an entire year while she was forced to take parenting classes and get drug tested
When I was in school, the special ed kids,cleaned the school, rather than being taught by the teachers. Such a total shame how these kids were treated. Glad their parents disenrolled the kids;
My daughter had suffered physical abuse and mental abuse just in primary school right up to teen years mother has to pick up all the pieces and put them back together again and just can't do it children suffer of today just going to school 😢
Id go to the police and ask for a child abuse investigation
I feel so sad for this mother, but the point she made about not having a certified teacher is not the school’s fault, but the fact that there are no teachers. The profession has fallen so hard that no one wants to be a teacher anymore. The pay is bad, and the respect is non-existent. Until things change, people are going to be finding many classrooms without teachers. So sad.
This is why school choice is so important.
WTF? 🤬 this is absolutely unacceptable! Everybody better start homeschooling your kids just to keep them safe! So fked up!
Kindergarten I had a teacher who locked me in a wooden box hidden behind her box that had a master pad lock with a key. You couldn’t stretch your legs so you had to keep your knees bended you couldn’t keep your back straight. There was no hole in the box other then one circle hole the size of a 5 year olds hand. I was putted in that box for the first time from telling on a girl that was a bully that one day I had to sit in that box throughout lunch without anything to eat forced to watch the other kids eat from the hole behind the teachers desk. She forced me in there by my hand. I never felt so betrayed. She told me she was going to talk to the girl to. Came back to tell me I’m in trouble. I’m 18 now and there has been more teachers in different schools who hit me or mis treated me but this was one of my worst times in school other then the time I had a man in elementary school hold my hands down and scream at me while I was crying I’m sorry. I been in special education all the way to graduation.
It would seem because of your circumstances, now that you're an adult you should be able to bring charges against teachers and schools. I hope that's true, although it might be very stressful. They should have to pay for counseling to help you get through damage they have done to you, and the destruction of a future you could have had with the correct education and treatment. I hope the best for you.
And now they want to dismantle the Dept of Education? This will crush all the children with IEP’s or any special learning disabilities & leave no one to support or advocate for the kids. There won’t be any funding & then the few good teachers left, will leave too. I’m so sad for our children-they deserve so much more.
In Minnesota I witnessed through DHS the tendency to only rename programs even though a public announcement was made that informed the general public that the program was being discontinued. Only parts of a program would be discontinued and a few new approaches to service were added. The motivation to make changes in this manner? I’ll guess it’s a cautious attempt to avoid admitting to failures and other degrees of neglect. That’s how government entities behave; public schools transfer problem teachers, HMOs relocate problem doctors to other clinics (try so hard to support Independent clinics!)
I worked in education prior to Scott Walker cleaning house. Sadly, our education system has been declining since then. Nobody wants to teach anymore. The benefits used to make up for the low salary. 😕
Praying for these brave and dedicated moms and their beautiful girls. May you all get justice and a good option for school. So sorry you’re going through this. Should NEVER happen.
When the Dept of Ed disappears this kind of abuse will only get worse. Special needs kids will not have resources like they do now, and those are already scarce. I hope these parents get lawyers and sue the district.
That is horrible. I can’t believe the things these schools are pulling
That bullshit. The state pays for the children to get special attention. You can and should go to the board of education you are your child’s biggest advocate you hold the power.
Are they not on an iep? If my kid came home with bruises like that cops would have been involved for child abuse!!!
That is not right kids need to be treated with respect and kindness not disrespectful that is wrong
When is the public going to wake up and DEMAND that there be cameras in these public schools??? We have cameras everywhere in our public areas. There should be cameras in these schools in this day and age!!!
Absolutely!
I was bullied by mainly two kids... one who "coincidentally" shared the same last name as the principal and the other who also "coincidentally" shared the same last name as the town police chief!!! Its also funny how i apparently "started" every fight and i was the only one who got inschool suspension!!! Zero tolerance blanket punishments that they usually dole out to both parties involved suddenly became very onesided for some strange reason!!!
This is so sad this happened to your daughter. She didn’t deserve this .
My heart goes out to these children... So sad I can't imagine how many more children are being harmed and can't physically tell.
sounds like a hate crime 🍻
File a police report and get them charged!!
This is horrible
Horrible!
It took me 18 years to get the school in the town that we lived in for them to approve a class for special needs . the town push these kids off to other school districts . I learned the schools are suppose to provide for whatever the child needs . Get a child advocate and IEP .
When will it's time to start caring cause the school and environments are absolutely unsafe for children?😢😢😢😢😢
Horrible & disgusting. Poor kids. 😢
They need to look into the mps schools this school is not the only one .
I'm thankful I live in New York state sometimes because in a situation like this the state would require the current School district to provide busting to the new school district. Or they would make the school pay for sending the girl to a special school and there are so many special schools for kids with special needs in our state. Too bad she had to sell her house and move just because the school can't adequately keep her daughter safe. But as a parent you will do anything for your child and she is the epitome of that saying
Amen! I have dealt with the same in MN.
As Para Professional at a nearby high school, my job consists mostly of helping students keep on track, redirect, and basically tutor in my field of expertise.
This story sickens me!! No matter how frustrated I or my coworkers become, we would never lay a hand on a child no matter how difficult they can be. I am so sorry you had to experience all that heartbreak and trouble!❤
I have no disabilities and public schools are terrible. I was picked on by white kids that had parents with money. The parents were senators and mayors so they wanted to look inclusive by sending their kids. The black kids were terrible to me because I was white. So white and poor doesn't go well in public school. I was more physically hurt by black and Puerto Rican kids. Hair pulled, pushed, kicked, things thrown at me etc. Couldn't tell my parents because they were already poor and neglectful.
The mom did what she had to do to keep her child safe. If it does continue with other kids the school should be closed down not investigated.
This is crazy how this people are geting away from this is Why didnt thay see the sighns thats crazy how on safe this is for this children When in doubt that your child is being abouse Take them to the hosiptale and get it reoorted from the ploice
This is elementary school, where kids are supposed to be watched constantly. Was it the same child doing this to both girls in wheelchairs?
Homeschool !!
I’m sorry Mom. I was lucky that my son got an excellent education and socialization at a tiny school district in Texas. Good luck and keep searching - I moved into that area for him and it was worth it. ❤❤
Thank God the abuse is being exposed!
Lost money because she had to sell and move? Add that, plus pain and suffering to the lawsuit. That email was the standard cookie cutter reply for all inquiries that are a pain the in the butt….in other words, ye ole kiss off.
SOOOOO SAD THEY DID MY GRANDSON LIKE THAT THEY EVEN CALLED THE POLICE ON HIM HES WAS ONLY 4 YRS OLD POLICE PUT HANDCUFF ON HIM 😢😢💔💔💔💔
Home-school all the way. Nobody (nobody) cares about/looks after your child better than you do. Get certified to become a Nanny (First Aid/Early Years Dev) & get paid to look after other peoples kids in your own home.
Heartbreaking story.
So sad. In the land of the brave and the free ?😢😢😢
I'm am glad the best thing she has done for her safety next time they will seriously irjure her best to do home schooling for there safety my daughter was went through psychological abuse now has more mental health problems doubles with her special needs they suffer most of their life to growing up to adults best of wishes to you & daughter 💝🙏 from Australia 🇭🇲
No child is physically, morally, or emotionally safe in public school regardless of ability--especially children in diapers who cannot communicate. You cannot advocate for a child unless you are physically present 100% of the time.