[rawhide]

Gosh, man, do I need to tell you also? I did not say the teacher was right!!! I even made the point that perhaps she could have done it different. The point I made was trying to understand why the teacher did what she did. Who knows? is what I wrote.

[CAluvdubya]

I'm with you...The teacher did not handle this correctly but the article did say that the boy was in another school and had trouble in that school, too. I wonder if the parents investigated their son's behavior in the first school or simply changed to a different school? Even with IEP children, some parents are not very helpful in working with the school.

IMO, the problem stems from mainstreaming special needs kids. It helps neither the special need child (as we see here), nor the other students in the class. So much of the teacher's attention and time is devoted to the special needs child and preventing harm to other students.

In kindergarten, since the DX and IEP take time to establish, the lone teacher has no help in the classroom at all. A 20 to 1 ratio is NOT sufficient with a special needs child and no aide to help.

Everyone suffers.

[Right Wing Assault]

perhaps she could have done it different

I think the word "perhaps" is the problem. I think most people agree she SHOULD have done it differently - no "perhaps." But most likely she shouldn't have done it publicly at all.