Special ed teachers defend dragging blind boy

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'Two special education teachers caught on camera dragging a blind 7-year-old boy 155 feet down the Gonzales Community School corridors are defending themselves and their method to move the boy between classrooms.

A mobility and orientation special education specialist with Santa Fe Public Schools told police weeks after the Nov. 15 incident that the boy wasn’t cooperating with her requests and that grabbing the boy by the ankles and dragging him “was just a way to transport the child and believed it was a natural way of taking the child,” according to the report released by police on Monday. A Braille specialist under contract with the school district also helped her colleague move the boy.

The report by Officer Michael Dimas says the 64-year-old special education teacher, when questioned about having the contract employee help her pull the child, “stated to me it had occurred to her at that point it could be construed as looking bad and therefore she had stopped and turned towards [another teacher] and [the contracted employee] and stated to them, ‘Do you think this could be construed as child abuse?’ ”