Video: Special needs kid voted out of class by kindergarteners
posted at 10:55 am on May 28, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A little ray of sunshine to get your day started right courtesy of the big A. It’s almost too bad to be true, especially the bit about the kids being encouraged to tell him what they don’t like about him, but the teacher’s been disciplined and has supposedly confessed. She’s not the only one guilty of something here, though: Watch the clip and ask yourself how the school administration could have thought this poor kid might be able to function in a general ed environment.
Special bonus feature: The most gratuitous Al Qaeda analogy evah.
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Oh geez! That woman (the teacher) is a flaming example of jackassery while being a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance! That is just pure hate. If I ever have children, no public school for them. THIS is what you get.
lsutiger on May 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM
Also comments made by Lily….im in the same field and these have been my experiences also…not taking sides, cuz case is unique…but generally speaking, there are unavoidable issues that people dont seem to want to face…
Also, thanks Josef!
Also that teacher should be fired and not allowed around little children, and have her license taken so she cant just move on to another school and start over. Her behavior is completely unacceptable.
surrounded on May 28, 2008 at 8:09 PM
That should be each case is unique, if anybodys still around, heh.
surrounded on May 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM
I am coming in late on this but I thought this little guy was extremely well behaved during the interview. Special needs or not. I haven’t read the whole thread but has anybody mentioned that it is MAY and the in Florida schools will be out in about two weeks. This teacher couldn’t suck it up for a bit longer? I use to give computer based tests to teachers to keep their accrediation current. There are some scary folks teaching school. I am adding my voice to those who feel that this was not helpful for anyone involved with the incident. I think it is really important to have an adult in charge and I think it is safe to say this was not the case.
Cindy Munford on May 28, 2008 at 8:14 PM
The mother stated that there were no criminal charges being brought against the teacher.
Why not? Doesn’t this fall under a hate crime of some sort?
Or it’s just evil and stupidity that we don’t criminalize?
That woman didn’t only do damage to that one 5 year old. She taught an entire class of students how to show and act on hate, and that it was okay to do so.
UGH..this story really gets to me…..too bad all I can do is rant on a blog to total strangers.
bridgetown on May 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Very good point.
surrounded on May 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM
MDs are slightly less clueless about autism than Andrew Sullivan is about conservatism. My wife & I (mainly her) are very active in our county’s autism group and the number of instances where children who at age 3 or 4 were diagnosed with autism - some with severe cases - but who at age 1 & 2 were told “nothing’s wrong” by their medical doctor has been staggering. It’s not really their fault as it’s not their specialty. But, seriously, a MDs opinion on behavioral stuff is akin to a NYT reporter’s advice on how to initiate an air strike on a terrorist cell.
rjwest21 on May 28, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Teachers like this make Mary Kay LeTourneau and Debra LaFave look completely sane by comparison.
Knuckledragger on May 28, 2008 at 8:41 PM
I haven’t read all [4] pages of comments. My 25 yr old son has Asperger’s among other issues. Having done battle with his school district in 1997, I have some familiarity with this type of action. The blatant IDEA violations to fire this teacher are familiar and most likely just the tip of the iceberg. Time to lawyer up.
UndertheBridge on May 28, 2008 at 8:42 PM
I have Aspergers Syndrome as does my teenage son.
What those creatures did to that boy WILL leave scars.
This is one of those rare occasions where I’m too angry to speak!
annoyinglittletwerp on May 28, 2008 at 8:49 PM
I like your analogies. Very apt.
Well, I’m officially checking out of the thread. It’s bath time.
Anna on May 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Public schools are a form of child abuse.
Stories abound of ignorant and vile teachers like this one - allowed to educate your children by inept, bureaucratic administrators.
Back in the day children that had “special needs” & kids that could not speak English were not placed in the “gen pop” - I guess it’s more PC to throw them all together - then single them out for ridicule now and again.
Disgusting.
Dorvillian on May 28, 2008 at 9:37 PM
I have a relevant situation. I just completed my first year of college (I turned 19 in May), and my room-mate, also a freshman, has Asperger’s.
He is utterly awful to live with: Stubborn, messy and completely oblivious to basic social norms, such as when he left a used condom in my rubbish bin.
He uses his Asperger’s as an excuse to be a jerk, and I know that he is the exception to the rule. But there ARE cases where people use their very real problems to create very avoidable ones.
Damian G. on May 28, 2008 at 9:37 PM
The mother made a gratuitous al queda reference, for sure, but she deserves a little slack.
The principal of that school should seriously question whether that teacher should be teaching young kids. I can only suspect that the teacher put on that display out of frustration over the kid’s behavior. However, that was not a good way to handle the autistic kid.
BryanS on May 28, 2008 at 10:04 PM
As you may have noticed, I have Asperger’s/Aspie’s too. Mind telling your roommate for me that I said to play the Asperger’s card very, very rarely so that when he actually needed it on a jobsite or down the road with you, he had it. The more he can overcome the disability now in college, the better for him.
Checking out tonight. Will come back tomorrow.
HotAirJosef on May 29, 2008 at 12:35 AM
Wow…poor little guy. Cut the mother some slack for the stupid AQ comment.
Hope he gets where he needs to be and has fun.
moxie_neanderthal on May 29, 2008 at 2:03 AM
Nice! Really nice!
sabbott on May 29, 2008 at 7:52 AM
Josef:
I’ve been told that I play the “Aspie” card a bit too often.
Thanks for the reminder to knock it off.
*slinks away in shame*
annoyinglittletwerp on May 29, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Sir, wasn’t talking about you or your son or anybody else excet the roommate Damian G. wrote about.
HotAirJosef on May 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM
I’m a woman first of all…and secondly I was agreeing that Aspies like anyone else can “play” their disorder.
annoyinglittletwerp on May 29, 2008 at 9:35 PM
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