[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.

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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?

[brytlea]

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.

The ADA and the courts.

susie

[DancingMyRainbow]

The point isn’t if he should have been allowed in the class, he was there and it was the teachers job to protect him as she would any of her other students. There should have been, and probably were, other options besides humiliating him and forcing his classmates to humiliate him too. That was beyond cruel.

[CDHart]

"I'd be furious that I was paying full tuition but not being afforded them a reasonable level of attention."

This has been going on for years, thanks to fedgov. They dictated that a disabled child should have the same teaching etc. as regular children, and that's where it started.

Carolyn