A father posts a YouTube video in protest after secretly
recorded teachers bullying his 10-year-old son, who has autism
After Stuart Chaifetz was told that his "sweet and non-violent"
10-year-old son Akian was acting violently at his New Jersey
school -- including physical assaults against his teacher and
teacher's aide -- he decided to investigate.  Akian has autism,
as do the rest of the students in the class. This prevented him
from being able to explain to his father if anything had been
happening to him at school. Chaifetz decided the only way to
find out what was behind the outbursts was to send his boy to
school wearing a hidden audio recorder.  While Akian's teacher
and colleagues denied anything out of the ordinary was
happening, the recordings Chaifetz listened to told a different
story.  Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts  "You would never get
away with talking about your alcohol abuse the night before if
this was a mainstream class," Chaifetz says in the YouTube video
(below). "And that's the point