As I said, anyone who would try to prosecute a 6-year old for ANYTHING is a complete and utter idiot. And how can you prosecute the parents for an act that the child did? Do you think that the child learned this behavior at home? Perhaps, perhaps not.
Should the child and parents be forced to undergo mandatory counseling? Yes. Should the child be in a mainstream class handled like all the other children? No. But, the article states that, “Nathan’s teacher’s aide, Glenda Schiltz, filed a juvenile fourth degree misdemeanor assault charge against him.” To file criminal charges against a 6-year old is just plain stupid.
I stand by my original statement, she should lose her job and her teaching creds.
Ruck
You have no idea about the political situation at the school. When you hear of people filing charges like this it is because of the situation at the school. When people are attacked they have the right to do what they want to legally, everyone assumes the child has no control. The parents have so many rights, often these rights are abused to the point where the rights of others are infringed on. Just because a child has a disability doesn’t mean they should be given a protection under the law to terrorize others, especially when the child is being mainstreamed. I personally believe the child is capable of having some self control, otherwise, they wouldn’t have mainstreamed the child at all. There are various degrees of autisum. It sounds like the parents are using their child’s disability to take advantage of the situation because the situation sounds out of control. People who over-react like you and start screaming someone should lose their heads are in effect the reason why others are able to abuse their rights and then it becomes an abuse of others rights.