[luckystarmom]

Methinks that maybe you need to go back to school because the article does talk about the kid having special needs.

"No teacher should be doing things like that to children - especially children like Ben who have special needs. "

How do you know he isn't in a special needs classroom? It doesn't say.

[LibertarianInExile]

Gosh, golly gee, that pokes a hole in my entire argument, then. NOT.

The point is that classes that are distracted by special needs kids ought not to be. You're saying that any teacher that did that to your kid would get a whuppin'. I'm saying that any teacher that didn't do SOMETHING to change the class situation would be catching hell from ME.

We aren't necessarily disagreeing on the situation, depending on the facts which are missing, but your reflexive coddling of the kid behaving inappropriately is in itself telling. Me, I'd reflexively side with the teacher if my kid was running his mouth, special needs or no, and tell the kid to apologize to the class and teacher and ask the teacher to complain to me and I'd handle it, instead of acting like he's scarred for life and bitching out the school. Teachers don't make that crap up, and this kid wasn't abused by a freakin' piece of tape.