“WRONG! 6 year-old children know it is wrong to assault someone (heck, even my 3 year-old is starting to figure that out). “
You don’t know much about autistic children, do you?
Seems to be the common theme on this thread unfortunately.
They are dysfunctional and other children should not be subjected to their problems.
I know that autism comes in a variety of forms, and varying levels of impairment. I have an autistic child in my school band. I have dealt with several different aged groups and have had a few autistic children in class over my 14 years of teaching.
Every autistic child (again, the term is rather broad)I have had as a student knew that hitting was wrong (pretty much as well as the other kids in the same age group).
Maybe I did not have any "profoundly" affected autistic children. But I didn't notice the article listing how sevier the child was disabled by autism (or they type), only that the child had a facilitator (which is not unusual even for relatively mild disabilities now, because of the threat of lawsuits).
If a 6 year-old is incapable of grasping the concept of not assaulting someone, then they have no business in the "regular" classroom.