Comments on: Florida Teacher & Students Vote Kid Out Of Class — He’s 5 Yrs Old

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:16:59 +0000

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.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:34:56 +0000

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

By: Lila

Lila — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:33:27 +0000

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.

By: mar

mar — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:42:28 +0000

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.

By: Mr. Gawd Almighty

Mr. Gawd Almighty — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:55:27 +0000

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.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:32:12 +0000

Prison for the teacher.

By: osamiface38

osamiface38 — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:14:20 +0000

Ok, let’s take a vote- who wants to see the teacher eat a handful of ‘POOP’?

By: Said

Said — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:32:50 +0000

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By: QB

QB — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:42:59 +0000

Said: nice troll. However you really do define “retarded”.

By: Said

Said — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:26:08 +0000

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.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:15:04 +0000

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.

By: deowll

deowll — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:30:25 +0000

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.

By: Barovelli

Barovelli — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:37:27 +0000

#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.

By: Said

Said — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:02 +0000

#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.

By: Poet_in_Pause

Poet_in_Pause — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:04:48 +0000

“I’ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized”
Dr. Haim Ginott

I just hope Alex is able to find a school that will teach rather than tramatize…