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Teacher seen dragging boy with autism through Kentucky school on video is fired

#TrinaAbrams #Teacher # WurtlandElementarySchool #Autism  A Kentucky school teacher who pulled a boy with autism down school hallways by his wrist has been fired, according to the district.  The teacher, identified as Trina Abrams by WCHS, was seen in a video posted to Facebook dragging a 9-year-old student through Wurtland Elementary School in eastern Kentucky. In the video, which is over a minute long, the teacher pulls the boy out of a classroom and down multiple hallways. "You want to walk," she can be heard asking. "No," the boy replies. At one point, she stops and says "Get up!" and pulls his body up as he refuses. He is first dragged on his back and then is dragged on his knees. The teacher was fired on Monday, over two months after the October incident, CNN affiliate  WSAZ-TV reports .  "I've seen him truly at his worst and it's never called him for being dragged down the hallway like that," Calep Nelson, the boy...