School Abuse on Dr. Phil - 12/5

[Guest guest]

School Discipline: Out of Control?

When you send your children to school, you expect them to be taught

in a

nurturing environment. But what should you do if you learn your child

has

experienced extreme discipline by those entrusted to teach him or

her? Eva

and Doug's autistic daughter, Isabel, was 8 years old when her

teachers

claimed her behavior became too difficult to handle, so they sent her

to the

Time-Out room. Cameras captured Isabel's time spent in isolation,

which her

parents say lasted for over three hours. Her parents say they had

worked

with the teachers regarding disciplining Isabel and were panicked and

horrified when they saw the footage. Next, Martha says her 12-year-

old

daughter was in a classroom when $42 went missing. In an effort to

find the

money, a group of girls were strip-searched. You won't believe who

reportedly ordered the investigation. Martha says her daughter is

devastated

and will never be the same. Then, when 5-year-old constantly

complained that his teacher was mean and yelled at him, his mom,

Tabitha,

sent him to school with a tape recorder in his pocket. Hear the audio

recordings and find out the shocking information Tabitha discovered.

Psychologist Ken Merrell, special education teacher Kathy Riley and

civil

litigation attorney Areva weigh in on these cases. And, after

years

of being relentlessly bullied by fellow students, brought

the

torment to a tragic end. His father, Jeff, joins Dr. Phil and Jay

McGraw to

speak for the first time on television