“Maybe the kid’s violent assault and battery — hitting other students, punching, kicking, leaving scratches and marks “
Funny as the kid is being arrested he’s screaming “I don’t like being touched” and the mom is saying “he’s autistic he does not like being touched” Yet he did a lot of touching of other people while in class. Strange is that not?
Your ignorance is astounding. You think autistics adhere to logic and consistency in every facet of life? Do ANY ten year olds do that? Autism is a diagnosis based on the presence of inconsistencies and/or “bad wiring”.
I normally have a great deal of sympathy for people with mental and physical disabilities, but even I’m getting tired of the way autistic kids are being allowed to be just plain vicious.
This little punk in question had previously threatened to kill the paraprofessional; the school let it slide, and gave the punk multiple opportunities to change his behavior. He then escalates his behavior into felony assault, and his mother expects the school to let that slide, too?
So the poor widdle babykins doesn’t like to be touched? Well, people don’t like to be beaten up, either. I’m sick of hearing about how parents and teachers need to tiptoe around and use “strategies” to deal with these little psychos. Beat his @$$ with a belt when he gets violent; if the little diva-boy doesn’t like to be touched, he’ll quickly learn that he will be hurt when he hurts others.
I remember there was a kid like this in my class at school. In addition to being mean, he was also a pervert, bothering the girls. Boys and girls were all afraid of him, and of course, the teachers never did anything to intervene when he went on a rampage. One day, he started in on some girls, including my cousin. Tired of his B.S., she turned around and kicked him in the crotch so hard, that he screamed and fell to the floor.
Amazingly enough, that aspect of his “autism” was cured that day, and he never bothered the girls again.
Autism is the new diagnosis du jour.
Did you know there's also now something called *Oppositional Defiance Disorder* where the kid does the opposite of whatever he's told?
In the old days, we called it rebellious, and took care of it appropriately.
Now they are coddled and reasoned with and negotiated with so as not to *trigger* them.
I am not kidding.
A lot of kids are labeled as autistic who aren't but are rather anti-social. In short, I don't trust the diagnosis any more as I think it's too widely applied when it's just an excuse for bad behavior.
BINGO! The “disabled” label gets liberally thrown around as an excuse for poor/abdicationesque parenting IMHO. Dangerous meds have replaced “abusive” spankings.
This is especially true in “single mom” households. The government and school district’s response is to throw more taxpayer money at it.
If dad wants to discipline, he is portrayed as an ogre, then run out on a rail by mom and the compliciit “family” court system.