Autistic boy "voted" out of class

[Genna14]

Sick that teachers are just as cruel as the kids are these days. He's FIVE YEARS OLD! Lets destroy him while he's young then!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358956,00.html

[Mandy Robbins]

Sick that teachers are just as cruel as the kids are these days. He's FIVE YEARS OLD! Lets destroy him while he's young then!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358956,00.html

I remember when I was in school that our headstart was shut down because the teacher held a deaf boy still and let the other kids hit and kick him.
( I was older, but the boy and his brother rode the bus with us)

I am sure I had 50 kind and good teachers growing up. But I can definately remember the few that, to this day make me shudder.

[Andi]

wow

Another reason why homeschooling is on the rise!

[Jake]

That kind of stuff just pisses me off to no end. I had to do some observations in a friend's third grade class for one of my Psychology classes this year, and wound up working with an autistic kid. Great kid! Not a problem at all if you knew how to relate to him.

The fact that someone who is supposed to be a PROFESSIONAL chose this way to deal with this kid irritates the crap out of me.

[Kansas Wheathearts]

That's too bad! Our school has had great success with 3 different autistic students "mainstreamed", the students are so caring and the boys really seem to be growing and learning. One boy sang a solo in the Christmas program and the whole place errupted in applause.
I am sooo thankful for our school system and my heart goes out to the family of that child.

[Sam!]

That kind of stuff just pisses me off to no end. I had to do some observations in a friend's third grade class for one of my Psychology classes this year, and wound up working with an autistic kid. Great kid! Not a problem at all if you knew how to relate to him.

The fact that someone who is supposed to be a PROFESSIONAL chose this way to deal with this kid irritates the crap out of me.

Lots of autistic kids are great. Some are not very well behaved, no matter how you relate to them. They probably shouldn't be in a mainstream class.

BUT. NO child should EVER be voted out of a class this way. Despicable.

[VerbumReale]

Lots of autistic kids are great. Some are not very well behaved, no matter how you relate to them. They probably shouldn't be in a mainstream class.

BUT. NO child should EVER be voted out of a class this way. Despicable.

As one who has worked with autistic kids and is the father of a three-year old boy recently diagnosed with autism I can say you are right. If a child is severely autistic they probably should not be mainstreamed, but from what it shows on the video, and admittedly it's a brief glimpse, he appears to not be of a more severe form. But yes, even if he is no child should ever have to go through something like that.

The article mentioned something about an online petition. Does anyone know where that is?

[VerbumReale]

Never mind. Found it.

http://www.petitiononline.com/autism08/petition.html

[ausgirl]

I would agree that 'regular' school may not be suitable for autistic children, but depending on the severity. A mildly autistic child would benefit from being in a class of 'regular' children as would the children also benefit from having someone a little different in their class.


I am a director of a child care centre here in Australia, we have a very stringent Accreditation process on a biannual basis, if we don't pass this, we lose our licence. One of the quality areas which you must pass is working with families to ensure that all children are equally treated and accomodated.

If my staff singled out any child for any reason, like this teacher did, they wouldn't be on my staff anymore.
This kind of discrimination is no different to if the teacher took a indigenous child infront of the class - imagine the uproar if that happened.
This whole thing disgusts me.