This just made me feel sick :(

[hanaka88]

this teacher should be fired

Why should a teacher be fired?? Doesnt read like the teacher was even there?

teacher wasnt there, but looks like carers were. Think its a bit odd to call the police! They were taking a group of young people with SN to a pool, they should have been better prepared.
Police were daft, according to report water was only chest deep.

FGS He jumped into the shallow end. He was not going to drown. If everybody had backed off he would have come out on his own. I am appalled that the police reacted in such a heavy handed way. I do think though that whoever was acompanying the children should have (and perhaps did) try to reason with police about the best way to proceed. Also have to say I wouldn't suggest taking young person with SN to a pool if they weren't actually swimming! DS would have also jumped in because that's what you do at pool - swim!

I would very much like to know who called the police, and why?

Not that anything excuses their actions when they arrived.

Barbarian. That was exactly what I thought when I read the story. Surely it is the lifeguards job to get someone out of the water - not the police. Why where the police even there - difficult enough to get them to respond to a crime but suddenly they are available when a boy with ASD jumps in a pool - surely the carers must have been capable of dealing with the issue and if not then they shouldn't have been taking him out!!!

Seems a bit harsh to leap to the conclusion that the teacher is at fault, it's the police at fault here. I bet it was pool staff that called the police when they heard a commotion, sounds like no-one was listening to the carers to me. :-(