Child School

Hello.
I am a former student of The Child School when it was located on 317 East 33^rd Street. Maari De Souza who is a former director of the school ran it like a concentration camp. She had no respect for children with special needs. On October 27, 2002, 8:00 AM, I came into school a ½ hour early but was unable to enter the building because it was too early. There was a new student name Amanda Santos who was also was also waiting to enter the school. While we were waiting outside the school, we started talking to each other. During our conversation, I complained about my back problem and agreed to massage my back. While she was straightening out my back, the Maari de Souza walks up to us and starts screaming at us. I tried to reason with her but she than started to make inappropriate comments to Amanda Santos stating she is drawing attention to herself by behaving like a prostitute, and that only raped woman behave the way she does. While the new girl talked back to Maari, she called Amanda a Wh@#e. This was over a minor back massage outside of school!