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Thursday, 29 May, 2008 @ 1:32 am
The teacher should be fired and the administration fired also for not doing anything about it. The teacher didn’t think she did anything wrong? Where did she get her teaching certificate? From the JC Penney catalog?
I hope the mother does sue and the teacher and administrators are the ones required to pay for any psychological damage done to any of the children–especially Alex and his friend who was forced to vote him out of the class.
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Guss Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 5:24 amVisit Guss
When you put a special needs child with children that are not, it can be very disruptive. Children are there to learn and as much as I hate to say it, not to spend most of the day with their attention being drawn to a disabled child that belongs in a special needs class.
Not everything is child abuse.
~J~ Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 11:50 amVisit ~J~
What if he doesn’t qualify as a special needs child? What if they don’t have a special needs class? He seemed pretty well-behaved in the video.
Why would an adult ask kindergarteners to tell her and the class why they don’t like a certain class member, even to the extent of forcing his only friend to say it?
What does this lesson teach those children? That it’s OK to belittle and ignore someone who is “different”?
I consider it child abuse of the worst kind because it was caused by a teacher and sanctioned by the administrators.
I have a kindergarten age grandson, and I know how impressionable he is. This is an innocent age for those kids. Why not let them keep their innocence?
David M. Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 12:30 pmVisit David M.
Guss-I agree that a special needs child can be disruptive, but how can this not be emotional abuse of the highest degree? For a child of that age to be humiliated in front of his peers is abuse and for the teacher and the school to apparantly think it’s acceptable astounds me. If he needed a different class, then the school should have provided it.
Guss Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 1:46 pmVisit Guss
Maybe I should be a little more sensitive. I just think that a child with special needs should, for his own good, should be in a class where other children aren’t able to torment him. You know how cruel children can be to their peers.
Guss Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pmVisit Guss
I have special needs. I can’t stop putting words where they don’t belong. Mostly should and should.
Sue Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 5:48 pmVisit Sue
Present this episode to the entire parental body at this school (video included) and see how many think the teacher and administration are the ones who should be “voted out.”
If they were made to stand there and be shamed perhaps it would make them think twice before they did this to another innocent child.
Such cruelty should never be condoned in our schools no matter what the age of the child.