Linda Powell, a primary school teacher at St John’s CE in Kearsley (UK), has been suspended amid claims that she allegedly struck a 7-year-old girl. As reported in the Bolton News, the school has faced controversy before about its treatment of special needs students: In 2006, parents claimed that boys with special needs were being dressed up as girls, and that children were being physically abused and, as punishment for misbheaving, were “forced to suck a dummy.” Mel Livesay, who belongs to a parents’ action group, says that her 10-year-old autistic son was dressed up as a girl:
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