Some Ottawa parents of children with autism are calling for cameras to be installed inside classrooms to keep watch over students with disabilities w

'There is no trust': Parents of children with autism call for cameras in classrooms

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2021-06-07 14:00:08

Some Ottawa parents of children with autism are calling for cameras to be installed inside classrooms to keep watch over students with disabilities who may not be able to speak for themselves.

Deborah Christian said the cameras would provide parents like her a sense of peace, knowing that what goes on in the classroom would be recorded.

She never imagined that just 15 months later, she would be pulling the five-year-old out of school over concerns for his safety.

"If you're not doing anything inappropriate, then you shouldn't be concerned with who's watching and who's looking," she said.

Shortly after her son started at Good Shepherd School in Gloucester in 2018, his behaviour started changing, Christian said. She said he would often come home and give himself timeouts and had regressed on his toileting.

She believed so strongly that something was going on at the school that she took the extraordinary measure of outfitting him with an audio recording device.

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