Detroit special ed student handcuffed to door for four hours at school

From Click on Detroit:

DETROIT -- The Detroit Public School District has launched an investigation into the treatment of a special education student.

The student was reportedly handcuffed to the principal's door following a fight at Sampson-Webber Elementary School on June 1.

According to school board member Marie Thorton, the school staff said the principal ordered a Detroit Public Schools police officer to handcuff the boy to a door in her office.

Thornton said the boy, a fourth-grader, remained handcuffed from 11:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. when he was allowed to go home.

The student has been identified as 11-year-old Antonio Hobson (pictured).

Thursday, his mother told Local 4 News she was never contacted.

"The school is right down the street from me," said the boy's mother, Charmaine Hunt. "My cell phone is turned off but you still can come to my house. Be professional like that, and bring him to me and I could have handled that instead of someone else."

Hunt said she may sue the school district. District spokesman Steve Wasko confirmed Thursday the principal, Regina Randall, was one of a number of principals whose contracts were not renewed for the coming school year.

Thornton said the case has been forwarded to the district's Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb.