Posted on 05/25/2008 1:36:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker
This whore of Satan, Wendy Portillo, belongs in a classroom with children about as much as Ted Bundy belonged in a woman’s dormitory.
Whatever evil befalls her, she deserves.
As a conservative Christian, I would ask you why she should be the "people's" burden, rather than the family that brought her forth, AT ANY TIME OF HER LIFE?
Then why is he in the classroom in the first place? That's the crux of the problem. You, and others like you, advocate putting these children in regular classrooms where they are open to this while at the same time stultifying the learning process for everyone else.
The selfishness of parents who demand their disruptive children be forced on other children abounds.
It's all about MY child!
It's all about MY child!
It's all about MY child!
And to heck with everyone else's.
And probably a fan of those so called reality shows were teams are allowed to vote members of an island.
Nice...you said it...I was merely restating what you said. I sure hope you have no contact with children.
Wrong! You did not. You completely screwed up what I said with your own emotional reaction. Try again.
Of course it's Bush's fault! /s
NCLB is just another chink in his armor. Along with mandatory psychological testing, I think he has slipped into the dark side. Big spending and more gum't are not in my definition of conservative.
I voted for him the first time, and held my nose the second. I love the Man, but I have rally been disappointed in many of the things that have been done, or not done.At least he gave us good judges, and has prosecuted the war (though I would like to use a few nukes!). He has honored our troops, but he has screwed the taxpayers (and don't give me the crap about Congress spending, he gave them the checks)...
McCain? Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!
I remember when I was in school, I was disruptive as well, though I did not have a disability. When I was a group of students chose to ostracize me for being a jackass, I felt bad as well. I think though that it helped me realize that the world is not going to revolve around me, and that if I want to have better relations with people, I will need to learn to properly behave myself in social situations.
In retrospect, I am grateful for the learning experience, but with regard to this child having a disability, part of me feels bad for him.
Democracy...
Why we have a republic.
If the boy had problems, deal with the problems, but public humiliation when the kid has a disorder is just cruelty.
If the class cannot function with him in it, pull him out, but this is an obscenity.
Sums it up, just right! She was wrong!
No thanks...you and your type aren't worth the effort.
Until you have been in a teacher's shoes, trying to control a class full of undisciplined children who are raised by overly permissive parents, you will never understand how a teacher will sometimes search for innovative ways to bring a child to the understanding that some behavior is NOT socially acceptable by his peers. Sometimes the only thing that will make sense to a child is being accepted by peers.
Naturally, this would not hold true for an autistic child, but as I said before..... do we know the teacher had any idea that this child might be autistic. And lets be honest, the child has not yet been diagnosed, perhaps they will find that he is not autistic after all. As Rawhide so appropriately pointed out, "who knows?" So let's don't be so quick to judge this teacher!!
A root cause of these issues is the underlying notion that disabled people are normal.
They are not normal no mater how much much we pass laws and issue decelerations stating that they are.
It would appear the child is unfit to be in normal school.
To prevent repeated disruption, isolation seems necessary.
Bingo.
Maybe this will teach him to straighten up and stop being a little spaz.
If that's the case, then what's the big deal here?
I'll bet he cares now. The teacher did a great job of pointing out to everyone that actions have consequences.
"Berates disabled kid" The headline is intended to invoke outrage and make the kid a victim - Disabled is a person in a wheelchair, not a disruptive brat.
“...a teacher will sometimes search for innovative ways to bring a child to the understanding...”
Sorry, but wanton cruelty directed toward a five year-old isn't an “innovative” anything.
The teacher should be canned, barred from teaching everywhere and for all time, and given a job more suitable to her talents, gifts, and apparent educational attainment levels.
Like cleaning toilets in a flophouse.
sitetest
Sorry, it was not so much "the liberals in education" as the parents of these children - the parents did not want their children to be stigmatized with a label and segregated from the rest of the school population, but they also wanted their children to receive the services required to compensate for their disability.
This left one teacher to deal with the special needs of one student (which could even include catherization for incontinent students) while trying to teach a full class of "normal" students. On its face, the idea is ridiculous, but is still practiced in some school systems.
Actually, it's being pushed on more and more school systems, in part because of parents and in part because of No Child Left Behind.
If special education students need to pass the same standardized assessments as regular education students, it is thought that perhaps they'd better be learning the same things in the same environment.
So you have a problem that these children are put into a regular classroom and problems occur. You think it perfectly acceptable then, because of that issue, the teacher's frustrations should be taken out directly on those children to prove that point? Do you also kick crutches and walkers out from under people.
Yeah. Are you on crutches besides the mental ones?
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