From the Mother's article
"Unfortunately, the medications did little to improve Brendan’s condition and had onerous side effects: he gained over 100 pounds in a year, making it challenging for us to manage him. Following guidance from healthcare professionals, I reached out to our local police to have Brendan placed under a Baker Act whenever his aggression resurfaced and we could no longer physically calm him down as we once could when he was smaller, by wrapping our arms around him."
So the parents realized the meds had side effects (who knew) and that he was a physical challenge. By all means - send him to a public school instead of homeschooling him as you did at an earlier age. You know- where the danger to smaller people would be of greater importance than his need for socialization.
"We have lived with the unintended consequences of small and various factors that at times snowball into devastating results for many years. It is never malice or even negligence, but an accumulation of seemingly minor and even reasonable and well-intended acts that somehow reach a critical mass no one would have expected. This is what appears to have happened."
No one could have expected this- with the exception of the parents who had to get police involved due to his size. By all means- have the school district get out the checkbook.
Yes, if we entirely ignore the extensive documentation of his condition in the school’s possession we can safely return to blaming these desperate parents. Good call!
So you are all for parents sending a dangerous kid into a school and expecting the teachers aides to do the work of a parent.
Got it.
Not only does that make your perspective really fucked up, it also means you are a horrible parent if put in that position. Please don't get rid of wife #4 and marry that 20 something that wants kids at your age.
For all the readers who have a sane perspective, these adoptive parents have been through hell with this kid. God bless them for taking this challenge on. It seems they have done everything possible to treat this kid, showered him with love, paid for medication, therapy, special ed, schooled him at home. The problem is, when they couldn't handle him, they clearly sent him to the school, the very school they are now trying to sue. After watching the video again, the other teachers who came upon the beating and did nothing in the moment? That is all the more reason the teachers aide should sue. The kid was treated with kit (kid) gloves. There was no physical retribution but they had to call the cops. The parents have zero reason to sue and I blame them for that. After a life time of work on this kid, why would they claim someone else didn't do right by a mentally ill individual.
