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Inclusion in the classroom, the numbers show that students with disabilities who spend the majority of their school day in a regular classroom has risen to stand at about 63 percent in the 2016-2017 school year – but what happens when they get there?
Allegra Willow posted a Tumblr thread on her page sharing various classroom horror stories from people with disabilities. From getting insulin pumps pulled out to being ignored during life-threating emergency health reactions, these tales of maltreatment will shock and appall you. At the end of the post, Willow included her own story but didn’t stop there. The 21-year-old informed any disabled readers of what is called the 504 plan. The plan is a legal protection program for United States students with disabilities or chronic illnesses in public schools. Some of the accommodations afforded with 504 can include verbal, visual and technological support along with excused absences or missed classwork. For Willow, it meant she as able to keep her medications on her person in the classroom in case of emergency.
Scroll down below to read these important stories and share your own! (Facebook cover image: theivorytower)
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Tumblr user Allegra Willow shared a thread of classroom discrimination stories from disabled students and they are shocking
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Willow didn’t just shed light on discrimination issues but shared some valuable information on a legal protection program for disabled students attending public schools in the U.S called the 504 plan
People in the comments couldn’t believe these were true stories
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BusLady 7 years ago
Teachers, including subs, should be informed about any special needs students before they even enter the classroom. They also need to be aware of this law and what it covers.
BusLady 7 years ago
Parents and students do need to be aware of their rights. We were with my oldest son, who is autistic. You wouldn't believe what the schools tried to do. We fought for his rights.
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Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
In all of the cases described, the teacher, sub or whatever should have been fired on the spot. It's worrying that someone has to point out that there's a special plan targetted at helping students with disabilities, but it's unbelievable that a student has to figure that out himself or herself. In my country most primary schools have an employee who takes care of these things: applying for subsidies, informing teachers about their students which need extra care and what to do in an emergency, keeping in contact with the parents to check if the child's needs are met and so on.
Josie Jones 7 years ago
Totally agree, sacked immediately! Really baffling how these things happen. I dare guess this is in the US no European country I think would let this happen. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I doubt it's near as many.
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diane a 7 years ago
Teachers can truly traumatise very small children. A new or substitute teacher (dont recall) had a policy of not allowing a child to leave the room to go to the toilet during lessons as she thought it would teach us "control". She changed her policy the day 4 kids wet themselves in the same class and she had to clean them up, find clean pants and clean up the mess - we were 4 and 5.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
4 and 5 yo not allowed to go to the toilet whenever they need???? Which planet was she from??
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Sierra Hall 7 years ago
I once had a teacher that was probably too old to be working with children anymore. She taught 4th grade, and my mother actually had her in 4th and 5th. She was so verbally abusive it was traumatizing. I went into depression and quit eating. I lost so much weight and one day she walked over to me and pulled my shirt against me and commented on how much weight I was losing and that I looked so much better. Old b***h. I was also sick one day and she wouldn't let me call my mom. I had my head on my desk crying when low and behold my mother walks in. She had that mother intuition thing going on and just felt the need to see me. My mom grabbed me, marched up to the teacher and said "Don't you see that she's sick? Why didn't you call me?" I never loved my mom more. She ripped that teacher a new one!
Natasha Monzolevskaya 7 years ago
In middle school, I literally peed my pants in class because a b***h a*s teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. She then made fun of me in front of the whole class, and told everyone what I did, even though I tried playing it off like spilled soda on the floor. The next day, my mom pitched such a fit with the school, I was never told "no" when I asked to go to the bathroom.
Valerie Lessard 7 years ago
i had a very similar experience as a 5 year old, some c**t of a teacher clearly had no idea of the needs of 5 year olds. i needed to go so bad i ended up peeing on the floor. i was teased relentlessly by other children and the school made me wear the spare clothes instead of letting me go home. my mum was livid and shouted at this freak. when a child that young has to go, they have to go, horrible thing to do to a kid
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athornedrose 7 years ago
my little sister has multiple chronic illnesses and asked her high school chem lab teacher to open the windows because her lab table's vent was taking away the fumes properly. he refuses and shouted at the whole class about kids being wusses these days until she collapsed, falling off her lab stool and breathing really shallowly. luckily, the bio teacher wasn't an unreasonable idiot and the other students ran and grabbed him. not only did he physically carry my sister to the nurse to make sure she got her meds, he brought the chem lab teacher into the principal's office for neglect to read student medical files and endangering his students. i will always appreciate him for that.
Sally Appleton 7 years ago
In 7th grade we went on a school tour across the country for about a week. I started feeling awful soon after we got there and was in such a daze that 8 years later I still can't remember much about the trip. On the night it was the worst my roommates called the supervising teachers in because I was literally alternating between blacking out and throwing up. I guess they weren't too happy that someone interrupted their drinking, as I got told "You're just overheating because of all these blankets." I was freezing. They left and my mom had to call a cousin who lived in the city to take me to the ER.
Flare 5 years ago
I think that people who want a teaching license have to meet certain requirements involving knowing what to do in certain medical emergencies to even be considered.
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Johnny Frostbite 7 years ago
When I was in high school we had assigned seating and I was sat next to a girl who wore very strong perfume, which was triggering my asthma and making it hard for me to breathe. I asked the teacher after class whether I could move my seat because the scent was causing breathing problems, and the teacher lectured me for a solid five minutes on how I was being insensitive and not respecting her cultural right to wear perfume. (I'm sorry, what now??? I couldn't breathe!) Eventually I just switched with another kid and the teacher never noticed.
lunanoir69 7 years ago
My nephew's professor read his disabilities accommodation list out loud to the class, and then made fun of the name of his disease. Can we say major HIPPA violation, anyone? I made sure he will never teach there again...
Herb Eaversmells 7 years ago
Its not as bad as these. But when I was younger I had quite a bad speech impediment. It took about seven years of speech therapy to clear it up. So naturally reading in front of the class was very embarrassing. Most teachers knew this and gave me a pass. Except one teacher who demanded I read all my anwsers to the class. I kept repeating "I don't know". He raised his voice and said "the answer on your sheet, what do you mean you dont know." I just kept repeating I dont know. It seemed like it went on forever. Until finally he realized and ended by saying "sorry I forgot you are the one who doesn't speak well."
Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
He sounds like such a d*ck. I've had a similar situation like this, except instead of really having speech problems I'd have selective mutism (I've still got it now, in fact). For some reason my SPED teacher was the one who liked to call on me when my hand wasn't raised and would often yell at me when I froze up.
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BusLady 7 years ago
Teachers, including subs, should be informed about any special needs students before they even enter the classroom. They also need to be aware of this law and what it covers.
BusLady 7 years ago
Parents and students do need to be aware of their rights. We were with my oldest son, who is autistic. You wouldn't believe what the schools tried to do. We fought for his rights.
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
In all of the cases described, the teacher, sub or whatever should have been fired on the spot. It's worrying that someone has to point out that there's a special plan targetted at helping students with disabilities, but it's unbelievable that a student has to figure that out himself or herself. In my country most primary schools have an employee who takes care of these things: applying for subsidies, informing teachers about their students which need extra care and what to do in an emergency, keeping in contact with the parents to check if the child's needs are met and so on.
Josie Jones 7 years ago
Totally agree, sacked immediately! Really baffling how these things happen. I dare guess this is in the US no European country I think would let this happen. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I doubt it's near as many.
Load More Replies... diane a 7 years ago
Teachers can truly traumatise very small children. A new or substitute teacher (dont recall) had a policy of not allowing a child to leave the room to go to the toilet during lessons as she thought it would teach us "control". She changed her policy the day 4 kids wet themselves in the same class and she had to clean them up, find clean pants and clean up the mess - we were 4 and 5.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
4 and 5 yo not allowed to go to the toilet whenever they need???? Which planet was she from??
Load More Replies... Sierra Hall 7 years ago
I once had a teacher that was probably too old to be working with children anymore. She taught 4th grade, and my mother actually had her in 4th and 5th. She was so verbally abusive it was traumatizing. I went into depression and quit eating. I lost so much weight and one day she walked over to me and pulled my shirt against me and commented on how much weight I was losing and that I looked so much better. Old b***h. I was also sick one day and she wouldn't let me call my mom. I had my head on my desk crying when low and behold my mother walks in. She had that mother intuition thing going on and just felt the need to see me. My mom grabbed me, marched up to the teacher and said "Don't you see that she's sick? Why didn't you call me?" I never loved my mom more. She ripped that teacher a new one!
Natasha Monzolevskaya 7 years ago
In middle school, I literally peed my pants in class because a b***h a*s teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. She then made fun of me in front of the whole class, and told everyone what I did, even though I tried playing it off like spilled soda on the floor. The next day, my mom pitched such a fit with the school, I was never told "no" when I asked to go to the bathroom.
Valerie Lessard 7 years ago
i had a very similar experience as a 5 year old, some c**t of a teacher clearly had no idea of the needs of 5 year olds. i needed to go so bad i ended up peeing on the floor. i was teased relentlessly by other children and the school made me wear the spare clothes instead of letting me go home. my mum was livid and shouted at this freak. when a child that young has to go, they have to go, horrible thing to do to a kid
Load More Replies... athornedrose 7 years ago
my little sister has multiple chronic illnesses and asked her high school chem lab teacher to open the windows because her lab table's vent was taking away the fumes properly. he refuses and shouted at the whole class about kids being wusses these days until she collapsed, falling off her lab stool and breathing really shallowly. luckily, the bio teacher wasn't an unreasonable idiot and the other students ran and grabbed him. not only did he physically carry my sister to the nurse to make sure she got her meds, he brought the chem lab teacher into the principal's office for neglect to read student medical files and endangering his students. i will always appreciate him for that.
Sally Appleton 7 years ago
In 7th grade we went on a school tour across the country for about a week. I started feeling awful soon after we got there and was in such a daze that 8 years later I still can't remember much about the trip. On the night it was the worst my roommates called the supervising teachers in because I was literally alternating between blacking out and throwing up. I guess they weren't too happy that someone interrupted their drinking, as I got told "You're just overheating because of all these blankets." I was freezing. They left and my mom had to call a cousin who lived in the city to take me to the ER.
Flare 5 years ago
I think that people who want a teaching license have to meet certain requirements involving knowing what to do in certain medical emergencies to even be considered.
Load More Replies... Johnny Frostbite 7 years ago
When I was in high school we had assigned seating and I was sat next to a girl who wore very strong perfume, which was triggering my asthma and making it hard for me to breathe. I asked the teacher after class whether I could move my seat because the scent was causing breathing problems, and the teacher lectured me for a solid five minutes on how I was being insensitive and not respecting her cultural right to wear perfume. (I'm sorry, what now??? I couldn't breathe!) Eventually I just switched with another kid and the teacher never noticed.
lunanoir69 7 years ago
My nephew's professor read his disabilities accommodation list out loud to the class, and then made fun of the name of his disease. Can we say major HIPPA violation, anyone? I made sure he will never teach there again...
Herb Eaversmells 7 years ago
Its not as bad as these. But when I was younger I had quite a bad speech impediment. It took about seven years of speech therapy to clear it up. So naturally reading in front of the class was very embarrassing. Most teachers knew this and gave me a pass. Except one teacher who demanded I read all my anwsers to the class. I kept repeating "I don't know". He raised his voice and said "the answer on your sheet, what do you mean you dont know." I just kept repeating I dont know. It seemed like it went on forever. Until finally he realized and ended by saying "sorry I forgot you are the one who doesn't speak well."
Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
He sounds like such a d*ck. I've had a similar situation like this, except instead of really having speech problems I'd have selective mutism (I've still got it now, in fact). For some reason my SPED teacher was the one who liked to call on me when my hand wasn't raised and would often yell at me when I froze up.
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