An Iowa special needs teacher has been fired after she blew the whistle on a staffer who ignored a non-verbal autistic child s cries as he was banging his head on a concrete floor.
The Urbandale School Board voted 4-1 to terminate Webster Elementary School teacher Amanda Delzell's contract after she spent several months on paid administrative leave, according to WHO13.
A teacher who witnessed another member of staff failing to help a non-verbal autistic seven-year-old as he injured himself and informed his parents against the school's wishes has been fired