Teacher Forces 'the Only Friend the Five-Year-Old Boy Has Ever Made' to Denounce him Publicly

GlennSacks.com ^ | 5/27/08 | Glenn Sacks

[Blood of Tyrants]

Poor kid.

[Niuhuru]

Of all the low things to do....

[wastedyears]

I’d fire the teacher and make it so they’re never in education again.

[YourAdHere]

He’d do better being homeschooled.

[OpusatFR]

Where did this disgusting piece of tripe learn to do a “One Minute Hate” so perfectly?

This is actually frighteningly close to Orwell.

Fire her. Take her license. This woman is so completely abusive she has no business ever being around children.

[Always Independent]

If this had been done to my son I would probably be going to jail.

[Kirkwood]

Teacher shouldn’t be allowed to ever be near children again. She is either very mentally disturbed or just plain evil.

[End Times Sentinel]

There's no defending what the teacher did in this situation, it's cruel and sadistic.

That being said, why was a child who has an obviously serious disruptive behavior disorder mixed in with kids that don't have a learning disability.
I know if that were the situation in my children's class, I'd be furious that I was paying full tuition but not being afforded them a reasonable level of attention.

While the teacher deserves to have her teacher's license permanently revoked, the parents are not without serious blame for their role in destroying a year's worth of education for the other 16 children in the class. This is negligence that almost approaches criminal.

[TexasCajun]

I don't know in today's PC world that Special Education Classes even exist in public skewls any longer?

[TexasRepublic]

That sounds like the old Soviet style of education. Spurn the outcast, little comrades!

[contemplator]

I’d fire the teacher and make it so they’re never in education again.

Maybe the principal can hold a meeting with all of the other teachers in the school and vote whether or not she should be allowed to stay.

[subterfuge]

If this had been done to my son I would probably be going to jail.

Same here. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Teachers are a protected class of liberals.

[chrisser]

Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.

Kindergarteners voting on their peers? Sorta reminds me of the Democrat Party primary.

[twntaipan]

You know, if this were the kids themselves talking some kind of action against the little tyke it might be understandable.

But this is an adult LEADING the kids to take action, thus making it utterly reprehensible.

[Dixie Yooper]

This is one of the most shameful things I have ever heard of a teacher doing. On the other hand, a child with Aspberger’s can go from being a normal child to an absolute menace in a matter of seconds, and once they go off the deep end, only the kids mother or father can get them settled back down. I expect the teacher was a ropes end with the kid, the parents and the administration and couldn't think of anything else to do. She should have keep thinking. This was a horrible decision.

[subterfuge]

the parents are not without serious blame for their role in destroying a year's worth of education for the other 16 children in the class.

Bullsh!t. The parents do EXACTLY what our public school "servants" tell them to do--or else. Go outside those guidelines and CPS will come a callin'. You're on thin ice if you're going to blame the parents for a teacher mentally abusing a FIVE YEAR OLD in this way. Please tell us how this teacher's abuse translates into "criminal negligence" by the parents?

[DieHard the Hunter]

I am keenly aware that only one side of this story (previously carried on FR on a different thread) has been told. It is an emotive story and is written in such a way as to provoke an outraged reaction.

What should the teacher have done, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight? And what events led up to this incident? What is the school’s policy on mainstreaming kids, and was it being followed?

We aren’t told this.

[mbynack]

First and foremost, I don’t agree with what the teacher did. However, many of the kids that are being “mainstreamed” in the school system are a huge distraction for the teachers and other students in the classes. One of the cases that I am aware of involved a girl in Pensacola, Florida who screamed and disrupted the whole class every day. If they passed around something for show and tell and she didn’t get it first she would throw a violent tantrum. She frequently spent whole class periods screaming and throwing books and it prevented the other students from learning anything. The newspapers in Pensacola wrote a very one-sided story about her being expelled from class and failed to mention the fact that she had assaulted the teacher and several of the students.

[AppyPappy]

“He’d do better being homeschooled.”

Exactly. Imagine having a fire alarm that constantly sounds off in class. It is very hard for kids to learn in that environment.

But a vote on kicking him out was sick.