School Pulls Autistic Student's Tooth Out

[druidp]

... and it was the wrong one.

www.circleofmoms.com/article/school-pulls-tooth-keep-10-year-old-s-hands-out-mouth-04247?trk=fbfp


A mom in Framingham, MA., is breathing fire over an incident at Woodrow Wilson Elementary, where her son is a fourth grader. The staff yanked out the 10-year-old's molar and casually reported the incident to his mother by email, after the fact.

The mom, Sabrina Grant, was told by her son's teacher that they took this unusual step because her autistic son, Chris, was overly distracted by a loose tooth. But whoever did the pulling left the loose tooth intact and pulled out one behind it.

Grant has since kept her son out of school and is considering pursuing criminal charges of assault and child abuse.

Has your school ever overstepped its powers in dealing with your kids?

[charminglife]

So they pulled out a tooth that wasn't loose? Wouldn't that have been incredibly painful for the student? I'd be livid too.

Here's another article - if the teacher had time to email the mom saying that the school pulled the tooth, why couldn't she have emailed her asking for permission FIRST!

boston.cbslocal.com/2012/05/22/mother-wants-school-nurse-charged-for-pulling-out-sons-tooth/

[UMaineTeach]

WTF
We has a child with autism with a loose tooth, blood everywhere, hitting, kicking, crying - we called the parents to come get her. No staff would go near her mouth, not even to make 100% sure it was the tooth bleeding and not something else wrong.

[meshaliuknits]

First, teachers shouldn't be pulling teeth.
Second, how do you pull out the wrong tooth?
Third, I really really love dp's Spike siggy. Between that and KA's I loose focus a lot.

[EloiseWeenie]

How did they even pull out the tooth that wasn't loose? Do teachers usually keep pliers in their desk?

[basilosaurus]

I don't see how that's possible. I had the majority of my baby teeth pulled by the dentist b/c they didn't loosen on their own. That shit took work and a lot of novocain. You can't just pull a tooth that isn't loose.