In times of 'selfies' on the rise and solidarity on the decline, the federal capital sets a shameful example for the country. Located in the cradle of the upper middle class, where federal servants live who are well endowed with federal taxes (which we all pay), Escola Classe 111 Sul, located in the superblock with the same designation, decided to 'hide' her special student, a ten-year-old autistic child (name not revealed), who remained forcibly locked up (would this be a case of the crime of false imprisonment?) and segregated from the rest of the class, in order not to 'damage the image' of the school.
According to the complaint filed by the student's father - who suffers from Autistic Spectrum Disorder - to the Public Ministry of the District Federal and Territories, to the Ombudsman of the Department of Education of the DF and to the Internal Affairs General of Justice - Everton Venâncio de Souza, the order of 'arrest' of the autistic student would have come from the director of the public educational institution, not identified by the report on the website Pais e Children.
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In a video recorded by a witness, the boy is lying on the classroom floor – in the company of two teachers – screaming and moaning, manifestations of the disorder and auditory hypersensitivity that this tease.
Before that, however, the autistic student was forcibly taken to the closed space, which enhanced his aggressive behavior. According to Everton, “the director stated that, in cases of crisis of autistic students in front of the school, the norm is to remove the students so that neighbors do not film what happened”.
According to a report on the Metropoles website, the director had previously dismissed the teacher in charge of teaching and care provided to special children, in addition to removing the social educator who maintained an 'affective bond' with the autistic student confined.
For an educator, who preferred not to be identified, for fear of reprisals, the removed educator, Wanderson Gonçalves Silva, 39 years old, would have filed a police report against the school manager for slander, as she would have accused him of stepping on the child. Silva also claimed to be being pursued by the director.
For a second anonymous educator (where is the law?), “taking him [the autistic student] to the classroom was not a good option, as he refused to enter”. She says that, in her entire career, spanning more than 20 years, she had never gone through this experience, of school segregation of an autistic child.
On July 12th, the minutes with the signatures of nine civil servants were sent to the Plano Piloto Regional Board of Education (responsible for regulating the region where Escola Classe 111 Sul is located), with the request that the director of the institution be replaced. The Corregedoria of the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District, in turn, limited itself to informing that “the case is being investigated and that all appropriate measures will be taken”.
