Michelle Villanueva’s son was just 11 when Douglas County school resource officers handcuffed him and put him in a patrol car, leaving the sixth-grader for two hours before booking the boy, who has autism, into juvenile jail for poking a classmate with a pencil. After the August 2019 incident, Villanueva no longer felt comfortable sending her son to Sagewood Middle School in Parker. “There was just a whole lot of trust broken,” she said. But Villanueva’s son, who The Denver Post is only identifying by his initials — A.V.