[John D]

If the class cannot function with him in it, pull him out,

Wouldn't it be nice it were that simple. The problem is all the advocates for these people demand that the wants of a few need to outweigh the needs of the many.

[Smokin' Joe]

And the parents are stuck, too, if the State has compulsory attendance laws and they have not cleared whatever hoops are involved in home schooling.

Or perhaps they are a two income family up to their ears in debt and cannot give up one income...I don't pretend to know.

But the teacher could have had him removed from her class without the humiliation. That wasn't necessary.

If you can, put yourself in the shoes of a five year old kid (generally oblivious, anyway) and try to imagine what it would be like to be treated thus and banished, never to return.

If his misbehaviour is a result of an organic disorder, as I said, the treatment is obscene.