Kids can be so cruel. Will they ever let this boy forget it? It just hits me as a big whopping mistake, though the parents should probably take the hint that the mainstream public school system is not the place for him to be.
INCLUSION is for EVERY student with the obvious exception of someone who is violent. Inclusion has been proven for the last 30 years that is benefits ALL the students.
I had a teacher call me the whistla - “Hey Whistla”(Mass. - I whistled in class a couple times as I had just learned to) and pretty soon as I walked down the halls, I had just about every kid calling me that. This was in 3rd grade and I was already the shy type so I took it pretty hard.
It’s one thing for another kid to make fun or create a nickname, it’s another for an adult in authority position to do it.