Arkansas private school director encouraged students to assault classmate, forced child with autism to scrub floors
Videos obtained by ProPublica show Mary Tracy Morrison, director of The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain in Jonesboro, Arkansas, leading a group discussion in which she encouraged students to assault a 13-year-old boy. Additional footage documents students, including a child with autism, scrubbing floors and walls while being verbally berated as punishment. The institute opened in 2024 following Arkansas's expansion of its school voucher program, which allows families to use public education funds for private school tuition.
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✓ Verified
- ✓The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain opened in 2024 outside Jonesboro, Arkansas. (ProPublica)
- ✓The institute opened after Arkansas expanded its school voucher program. (ProPublica)
- ✓Videos show Morrison leading a group discussion where she encouraged students to assault a 13-year-old boy. (ProPublica)
- ✓Videos document students scrubbing floors and walls while being berated. (ProPublica)
- ✓One of the students documented scrubbing was a child with autism. (ProPublica)
- ✓Forty-nine mainstream media articles have reported on these incidents. (verification via MSM article count)
~ Interpretation
- ~The incidents represent institutional failure in a voucher-funded private school setting. (ProPublica reporting and implicit in the outlet's investigative framing)
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