Tobinworld Incident Summary

Our aim as a change agent is to consider if having camera’s at Antioch Unified School District in the special education classroom will be more effective with promoting a safe environment. Tobinworld School which is located in Antioch Unified School District has had problems with situations that involves the teachers abusing their students. Kamaljot Kaur was a teacher’s aide at Tobinworld who was suspended for child abuse after a video of the incident surfaced on SnapChat. In the article Gafni states that “The video shows a woman wearing what appears to be a blue Tobinworld employee T-shirt striking a young boy multiple times, tackling him to the ground and throwing items at him, while men, identified by the Antioch woman as teacher's aides, hold the boy, laugh and film the incidents.” If the teacher’s aide had better training this incident would not have happened. If a situation like this were to happen the camera’s …show more content…
In fact, use of either seclusion or restraints in non-emergency situations poses significant physical and psychological danger to students.” Patti Ralabate who is an expert on autistic kids agrees that, “There’s a huge question of how much safety or teaching a teacher can provide if he or she is being called on to calm or contain a student on a regular basis.” The schools did not tell the parents of the methods the teachers use on their kids. It is unimaginable the kind of torment the kids go through and why the government is not doing anything about it. It is quite sad that there is no law in place to monitor such behavior. This just shows that Tobinworld School isn’t the only place abuse has occur and we need to come together and protect the