Today, a father protests outside an Ontario school as his son with special needs, Ryan, was left behind with two strangers on a school trip. It was later discovered that the teacher that was in charge at the moment had done it on purpose. Ryan is described by his father to have problems retaining information such as words and numbers, such that he does not even know his own home address. Officials from the Waterloo District School Board then tried to explain that Ryan was left behind in the care of an elderly couple so that the teacher can come back for him, after escorting the rest of his classmates back to the school. Kevin, Ryan's father, has pulled both Ryan and his sister out of school and demands that the teacher in charge of the school trip and the principal be fired from the school. It was also reported that the board is taking disciplinary action with the teacher, but it is not clear what punishment she received, or whether she received a punishment at all.
I strongly believe that the teacher was irresponsible for leaving Ryan behind on this field trip, since he is still a kid, and can get easily lost. Above that, he was left with an elderly couple he didn't know, and possible could have kidnapped him or done things many times worse. The teacher was wrong not in the sense that he purposely left the boy behind, but because there was an assistant available for classes with children that have special needs, but the teacher chose to handle the trip all by herself and was determined that she did not need any assistance. Overall, the teacher did not do a good job of taking care of the students and did not act appropriately, and so I firmly believe that she should be fired, or at least faced with some other major punishment.
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