Poor kid.
Of all the low things to do....
I’d fire the teacher and make it so they’re never in education again.
He’d do better being homeschooled.
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.
If this had been done to my son I would probably be going to jail.
Teacher shouldn’t be allowed to ever be near children again. She is either very mentally disturbed or just plain evil.
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.
That sounds like the old Soviet style of education. Spurn the outcast, little comrades!
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.
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.
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.
I’m a teacher, and I cannot imagine a scenario where what the teacher did was right. I’m sure the little boy is difficult to have in class, and I suspect that not enough is done, as he probably not only drives the teacher nuts, but clearly his classmates as well. That being said, it’s not HIS FAULT. I would QUIT before I would do something like that to any child, no matter how annoying.
Sadly, there are people teaching who should not be. I don’t know if this child was best served in that particular environment, but if most of his classmates were willing to vote him out of the class, I suspect he would be better served in a different environment, as his educational needs are probably not being met, and he’s most likely interfering with the education of the other students.
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Basically the same thing happened to my baby on a different angle. She is ADHD and once the kids found out she was targeted for bullying and every time she would attempt to tell teachers about it she was chastised based on her behavior and either dismissed, told to suck it up, or punished for “tattling”.
My psychologist wife went up and talked to the teachers and it got a little better. I went with a bad attitude and my laywer’s business card and visited the principal and it got a lot better along with an apology from one teacher to my child. We are attempting to make adjustments to home school her next year.
I’m not a teacher, nor a parent, but I can’t imagine a more horrible non-physical thing to do to a kid. This was a very cruel thing to do and as much as we’d like to “get over” all the cruddy things that are bound to happen to all of us, this could create some permanent damage. Very cruel, very thoughtless.
I read the first article on this. I’m going to reserve judgement until the whole story is out. Anyone who reads a fraction of the articles out there knows never to fully trust the parents’ account of the incident.
Since when do 5-year olds get to vote on whether a classmate can stay in class, when even parents don’t get to make that kind of decision about class enrollment?
What exactly was the purpose of this excercise, other than pure psychological abuse?
Forget firing. The system doesn’t have that kind of recourse built into it for parents. Taking her on an instructional “field trip” where she can learn about which bone is connected to which bone would be more appropriate, if you know what I mean.