Council builds 'cage' for autistic pupil

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at that picture.

OMFG
That is beyond shocking. My daughter has ASD- I don't know whether to cry or be angry at this.

. OH MY FUCKING GOD !

Its a sorry day when an asd teenager has to put up with the fuckwits who thought up that "cage" .

hope the family kick some fuss up.

Oh my good god.

My lads' first school fenced off the whole infant playground and had 1:1 playtime supervision for them.

Quite apart from the vileness of putting a child in a fucking cage, where's the social interaction.

Unless they're going to get the other kids to feed him peanuts through the bars.

I am so bloody angry that anyone could think a bloody CAGE in a field acceptable.

....so asd kids dont deserve basic human rights , according to the western isles education department/council ?

Thank fuck we live in fife , where asd children are looked after very well.

ive seen dog kennels with bigger runs than that cage tbh.

omfg who on earth would think that was a good idea He hasn't been outside at school for 6 years, 6 years

That's awful, it looks like a prison enclosure but tiny, what did they think he was going to do in there it's not even very big.

My children don't have austism and I have no experience but even I can see that's just insulting to the child.

bloody hell!

that is heart-wrenching

. appalling.

bloody hell - words fail me

This is terrible

Good god. Well at least they've taken it down. Appalling that it got as far as being built though.

It's a shame they didn't stick the council in there instead.

Sickening . Words like inclusion and equality are floating around my head! As a mum to a very low functioning ASD ds I have to say that there are too many people with the "cage" type of mentality as far as our children are concerned.

Hope this gets the outrage that it deserves

I think at least one person should be sacked for this

I can just about imagine if that was my ds1

I actually don't have any words about this . I think I will be depressed for weeks thinking about it.

WHAT???
Who on earth thought that up?
At least it was dismantled 'immediately'.

Yes Green I think I would have been arrested for some kind of public order offence had I been offered that as a "recreational outdoor space" for ds.

good god, there would be an out cry if an nt kid was put in there.
sick

It is awful. I can't believe anyone ever thought it would be appropriate to build it int he first olace. It has now been removed - hopefully they will develop a much more suitab;le play area for him now.

So what happens now? They take it down and the child gets to stay inside for another 6 years?

Oh. My. God.