Autistic child taken from school in handcuffs
COEUR D’ALENE — A Ponderay mom was left outraged when school officials ordered her autistic 8-year-old daughter handcuffed and taken from the school in a police car.
Outside her Ponderay home, 8-year-old Evelyn Towry, in her pink boots and favorite sweatshirt explains why she’s now suspended from school.
“Because I was trying to leave and they hold me down,” Evelyn said.
Evelyn is a third grader at Kootenai Elementary and has Asperger’s Syndrome, a high functioning form of Autism. On Friday she started to act out.
This sickens me!
My little boy (eight years old) and girl (six years old) also have AS. Children with AS reason things out very differently. They cannot possibly understand why they would not be allowed to "wear a cow shirt" and I think it was highly ignorant and wrong of the school officials to have reacted the way they did. It just shows that lack of compassion amongst those who work with our children these days. I too have issues with my eight year old’s school officials. It is troubling.