To send a lesson to this teacher, other teachers, and the school superintendent.

This is what happened ...

"No wonder you don't have friends."

"No wonder nobody likes you."

Most would assume comments like those were the result of your
typical playground bullying between children. Awful, but almost
unavoidable. In the case of a 14-year-old special needs student
at Miami Trace Middle School in Ohio, however, the abuse actually
came from a teacher, and a former teacher's aide last spring,
WBNS reported.

After continuous complaints from the girl, her parents decided
that before they took action, they needed proof ... and hid a
tape recorder in their daughter's clothing. What they picked up
has sparked shock and outrage -- the educators were calling the
child lazy and dumb.

"Don't you want to do something about that belly," the recording
obtained by WBNS reveals former teaching aide Kelly Chaffins
saying to the student.

"Yes," the girl responded.

"Well, evidently you don't because you don't do anything at home,"
Chaffins said. "You sit at home and watch TV."

Audio also reveals the girl was made to run on a treadmill while the
speed increased. Since presenting the school with the evidence against
the pair, district officials demanded Chaffins resign, which she did,
but not Wilt.

Miami Trace Superintendent Dan Roberts told the station Wilt's
involvement with the alleged abuse "did not meet what the educational
aide had done."

According to a consent agreement signed by Wilt and the state's
superintendent of public instruction, she "engaged in conduct
unbecoming to the teaching profession when she made inappropriate
comments to a student with disabilities and allowed a co-worker to
make inappropriate comments to a student with disabilities," the
Columbus Dispatch reported.

Instead of resignation, Wilt will undergo a probation period, as well
as eight hours of mandatory training in "how to recognize child abuse
and stop bullying."

The girl's parents sued, and the school district subsequently paid
$300,000 in damages.

After a law allowing verbal bullying in schools by teachers and
students as long as it was backed by religious beliefs or "strong
moral convictions" was passed in the Michigan state Senate, lawmakers
in the house have responded to a wave of controversy and vowed to
make changes that "provide protection to all students."