Teacher lets Morningside students vote out classmate, 5 |
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By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.
Kid may have Asperger’s which may mean he’s a genius which may mean he’ll eventually show them by becoming rich and famous. That’s after he becomes rich from the lawsuit. Haha!
#8 – The kid has “learning disabilities” or is “hyperactive” or he just can’t STFU because he never had any discipline from his parents – so the rest of these kids should suffer? So instead of proper parenting they will drug this kid and he will become a bigger asshole. Please, click my name and blow me.
#19 – Noop. Starting them off assimulated right off the bat take away more valuable time to the rest of the average students and possibly NOT give the ‘special’ ones the special attention they deserve.
Don’t isolate them totally – have the special classes in the same campus’ as others. Let them have recess & breaks with the rest, but give them teachers that are more skilled to work with them. After school is over with, the special kids don’t go to college, hold jobs with 99% of their class or join the armed services – they will be out of the mainstream for life, learn to deal with it early.
last note – the parents are in denial.
Having the other students vote is stupid when you can’t even trust them to be alone or cross the road. It is the adults responsiblity to make a reasonible and prudent choice.
Having said that I’ve known some kids that were pretty far gone this way and being in the same class room with them as a student or a teacher is bleep! Besides being an upleasant non learning environment it can be dangerous. If I had a kid in a class with one of the worst cases I’d transfer the kid if at all possible. It depends on the kid and I don’t know this kid.
How ridiculous. This isn’t f’n Survivor where a 5 year old gets voted off the island! A professional needs to be handling the kids fate which is obviously NOT the teacher. What a great way to teach the rest of the kids intolerance and how to cast off what doesn’t fit “perfectly” into our society.
Stephanie, he wouldn’t have been picked for kickball either. It was a fair vote and he was kicked off the island. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Said: nice troll. However you really do define “retarded”.
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Ok, let’s take a vote- who wants to see the teacher eat a handful of ‘POOP’?
Prison for the teacher.
Must be a lot of Republicans posting on this. No respect for the democratic process.
Get the message idiots !!! The rest of the class didn’t like him. He kept distracting them from learning. From THEIR time and reason for being in school.
In the process of being diagnosed? Right. And I’m in the process of winning the next big lottery.
This child should have a teacher’s assistant working with him. The process of having a child assessed is often a long one. In the meantime it is up to the school to handle things appropriately, which in this case was not done. May this be an eye opener to other districts when it comes to helping our kids with special needs.
And #26, don’t insult people with mental retardation by refering to the poor sick damaged mind of Said.
Excuse me, but let’s leave it to the educated amongst us to decide about inclusion. I am dismayed by the shameless display of bigotry and prejudice seen here by some of you.
Karma is a bitch.
It must be frustrating to have a kid who is constantly disrupting the class. He should be in a special needs class or if he is really out of control then he needs to be institutionalized
Well, we could know what the kid is prone to. random outbursts, or simply not doing schoolwork and drawing pictures are two totally different things. if the kid was just a pr**k, so be it, but it doesn’t mean the teacher can actually have the children vote him out of the class. Where did he go? home? the office? did the principal let it happen and send the kid home? i feel that this is just the product of a teacher who doesn’t know a thing about anger management.