[struggle]

As someone who knows - if your 19 year old “autistic” son is in “resource,” and a police officer has to be called to handle him, it’s not because he’s out of place.

I’ve taught dozens of autistic kids, and while their thinking is quite different from normal kids, I have yet to meet one that’s become violent. I have a feeling this (19 year old) kid was a bit farther along than autistic.

[fso301]

Would the mother prefer that he have been tased?

[goodwithagun]

As a mother of a son on the autism spectrum, this breaks my heart. This is why my son attends a private school.

[AppyPappy]

The Newtown shooter was autistic.
Just sayin’....

[Chainmail]

The spread of the Autism Spectrum is a tragedy and a disaster and we haven't the smallest iota of interest from the government on its causes and cures. We can funnel billions into AIDS/HIV treatments which can be solved instantly with some self-control but this increasing disaster to our children is ignored - other than forcing teachers into accommodating disabled kids in with everyone else.

What if the causes are something the leadership did/is doing? Has anyone mapped the increases over time of ASD to the increased uses of pesticides or nuclear radiation or new products?

Instead, we seem to be just staring at the problem if it affects us and ignoring it is it doesn't and crossing our fingers during every pregnancy.

[Prospero]

This incident shows the incompatibility of humans with the oddball Progressive 19th century Prussian public school system universally chosen as a model for American public schools. The autistic students are, perhaps, the raw end of the spectrum, but, these days, I venture to guess that most students are just as at odds with a system that has inevitably followed the course of all reformed institutions, changing over time from a system devoted to it's reason for being to self-continuity; rather than existing to properly teach, it's primary purpose is to provide employment for social engineers, experimentalists, professional administrators and other Central Office personnel.

When students (and their families, and thereby society at large) once again become their primary purpose, with the well-being of educrats, shielding their interests behind those of teachers, the one-room school house may eventually reappear, with far better results.

The institution designed to educate the next generation is designed to be incompatible with its original function. This is the triumph of a single philosophy of education, one flavor of "experimentalism" given the emotive label "progressive education," that has succeeded in crowding out every other philosophy of education to the point where, to graduate from any teaching college in America, educrats must adopt the godless brand if they expect to receive a license to teach.

It's taken more than a hundred years, but its triumph is complete, with the causes of the attendant disaster having become almost completely invisible.

The ghost of John Dewey marches on.

[metmom]

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[GladesGuru]

Why has “mainstreaming” of children with obviously divergent educational methodological needs been allowed?

Thanks to the “mainstreaming” of students with issues like autism, they do not get the specialized education they need AND they disrupt the classroom of ‘normal’ students.

“They are vewy, vewy, cwazy.” Mr. Fudd.

PS The ‘cwazy’ I referred to are running the schools.

PPS They are running the schools into the ground.