Wow, we haven't seen you around here in a very long time! I miss your posts from way back when.

My child has Aspergers and behavior is rarely an issue when they are in the proper educational program, with teachers and staff who know how to deal with it. Clearly this child wasn't and that teacher should be fired.

With the growing cases of various degrees of autisium in our society today, I have to wonder where or even IF this so called teacher has gotten educated in child developement. Ms Wendy totally needs a refresher course. I find this disturbing for many reasons.

We too have an Asperger's child. People are ALWAYS cruel to her - in church, school, neighbors. She has some ticks (nervous habits) and anxiety but otherwise does well. The few "abnormal" things she may do are enough to set other kids on her like wolves. Our society stinks.

Abuse? Of course, and specifically it's called BULLYING! Most schools of any merit have in place a policy to deal with bullying issues. I wonder if any of them address bullying by a TEACHER! Pull her license....

Ditto
Parents with special children of a handicap nature have a rough time as it is they don't need idiots like that teacher adding to the distress.

This teacher needs to go. As an educator and an aunt to an autistic boy I am completely disgusted. Children should not be subjected to humiliation regardless. What is it with Florida???????Teachers get fired for practicing witchcraft when actually trying to stimulate the students minds in a science room. Teachers sleeping with students. And now teachers allowing cruelty into the classroom and acting as ringleaders in a disgusting display of bullying.

Do they not know that Einstein had Asperger's Syndrome?

If Florida doesn't consider what happened to this child as abuse, Florida's lawmakers need more education!

This makes me sick to my stomach. Absolutley disgusting that this grown woman would teach a class of children to single someone out and savagely demean him. Autistic or not this is reprehensible. I hope this teacher loses her teaching license and comes into a solid beating someday over this. She deserves much worse.

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So where is Wendy's picture? I think she deserves some exposure for her teaching method.

To the Barton family. You can tell Alex that I think he is special. That he is a very handsome young man. For the teacher in the other hand she shouldn't have a job. This is horrific and she should not be teaching.

what the teacher did was wrong , however , there were obviously problems with the child and he should not have been in a class with regular children , he should be in a special ed class wth other children that can not behave normally, why should she get fired, are there any other complaints? People make mistakes , even teachers, letting the other children in the class tell this problem child what they don't like about his behavior is not wrong , just the way she went about it . Children have feelings and need to know how to express them and stick up for themselves. I think the boy should be in trouble , he has probobly been abusing his other classmates and teachers for years

I am completely appalled. In no circumstance is it ever acceptable for a teacher to do this to a child, especially a 5 year old!

oh my god!!! This is repulsive. This has nothing to do with disability. These children are 5 years old...what in the world is the teachers point. 'hey kids, let's band together and learn a lesson about hate'. She absolutely needs to go. Whether he has Asberger's or not is irrelevant to a degree. She is a teacher and her job is to find the gifts within each child and nurture those, not tear kids down and make them feel worthless. The other kids learned a great deal about control and power. Hope she is happy.

Mrs. Marcia Cully- Principal cullym@stlucie.k12.fl.us

Mrs. Patricia Gascoigne - Assistant Principal
gasgoignep@stlucie.k12.fl.us


http://www.stlucie.k12.fl.us/mse/staff/administration.html

Write to these people and express your horror at the school allowing this to happen to an innocent child.

Hello,
I am the mother of a 4 year old Autistic boy that knows his colors, matches objects, can sign his needs, assit with putting on his clothes and etc... why can he do all of these things when many people said he would not is because he has parents that support and love him and a school environment that is specialized to his condition.
This school system in this story should not only be reprimanded by the Federal Government under the ADA statue and for violations of this childs civil rights as he is not an animal. Moreover,, if I were one of the other parents in this horrible teachers class room what would I think was being done to my own child. Could he be voted out because his hair was blond?

Anywhere else in the co called civilized World...(?) both the teacher !!! and the person who investigated this incidence !!! would have been FIRED O N T H E S P O T ...---

WHAT BOTHERS ME IS THAT THIS WOMAN STILL HAS HER JOB!

I LIVE IN FLORIDA ALSO, A FEW YEARS AGO A MOTHER OF A FELLOW SECOND GRADE STUDENT OF MY DAUGHTER CALLED ME TO SAY HOW UPSET HER CHILD WAS AT HOW MY DAUGHTER WAS BEING TREATED IN THE CLASSROOM. WHEN I WENT TO THE PRINCIPAL IMMEDIATELY WITH THE ALLIGATIONS THAT CHILDREN WERE BEING PUT IN THE CLOSET AS PUNISHMENT, HER FIRST REACTION WAS TO DEFEND THE TEACHER AND SHE EVEN WENT AS FAR AS TO TELL ME THAT THEY RECIEVE SPECIAL TRAINING ON HOW TO USE SUCH METHODS. NEEDLESS TO SAY I CAME UNGLUED. BUT NOTHING WAS DONE, THEY EVEN REFUSED TO MOVE HER TO ANOTHER TEACHER.

REMEMBER THE ARTICLE ABOUT THE MOTHER WHO PUT A TAPE RECORDER IN HER CHILDS BACKPACK AND RECORDED HER ABUSIVE TEACHER? ALOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN OUTRAGE THAT THIS TEACHER'S PRIVACY HAD SOMEHOW BEEN VIOLATED. BUT I ASK, WHAT ABOUT OUR CHILDREN, WHO IS PROTECTING THEM WHEN WE SEND THEM OFF TO SCHOOL THINKING THAT THEY ARE SAFE FROM PEOPLE WHO WOULD DO THEM HARM. AND WHAT CAN BE DONE WHEN YOU FIND OUT THE PERSON YOU TRUSTED THE MOST, THE TEACHER, IS THE ABUSER?

That teacher should be humiliated in front of her peers to the highest degree and fired on live television. But honestly, will it really hurt her the way it hurt a 5 year old child with a disorder??? My first thought was really... she should be shot.