Once years ago, a parapro at a high school whipped a special needs child with a belt. of course she was fired.. but what horrified me was that the supervising teacher was also let go from her job even though she had nothing to do with the incident nor did she get to choose her parapro was. Then all of the teachers at the school were transferred at the end of the year... I almost went to that school that year to teach special ed....It was a blessing that I didn't. You sound very calm about this. I guess the school was afraid of a law suit.