PD*Poll: Students vote autistic 5-year-old out of class

Sounds like the teacher is the bully in this instance. She exhibited totally unprofessional behavior.

This is atrocious! I hope the school and the teacher get sued for what they did to that little boy. ASD kids are so sensitive!

That is so sad to here but even worse it happens more then people realize. I have a son with Asperger's Syndrome and he also gets picked on at school and the response we get is there just being kids. The problem is by looking at them you would know anything is wrong until you spend time with them. So they just get labeled as weird or something else. People just have to learn to treat people the same way they would want to be treated and world would be a much better place. I hate to say it but this teacher better start to learn how to work with kids with this problem because more kids are being diagnoses everyday. I would love to put that teacher in front of the class and let people do that to her. I hope you keep fighting this in court.

Please let Alex know that he is a very SPECIAL child and that NO ONE will take that away from him or you. What that teacher did was cruel and very hurtful. She should be fired for what she has done to Alex. That was uncalled for and I would not tolerate it if that was my child. I am so sorry that you have to go through all of this and I hope that you get this resolved soon. Alex is a SPECIAL CHILD!!! GOD put him for a reason.

Obviously this young man deserved punishment. Assburger is a made up disease as an excuse for bad parenting.

I noticed the teacher was African-American....

Parents should get a lawyer and sue the school. This is beyomgd not meeting any educational goals. Parents must fight this as the school is at fault

I think this is disgusting.I think this teacher should loose her license to teach. Payback is a $%#$^ and what goes around come back around. What do you think this would do to this handsome little boy's self esteem. As if the poor mother does not have enough to worry about. As a person with two autistic nephews i am disappointed in what this country has come to. It seems they will give anyone a license to teach. I would love to be locked in a room with this woman and really express what I wanted to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE BETTER GET FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you! This teacher needs to be fired for her callousness and the District fined or sued to ensure that this never happens again. No one in my family has these issues, however, we all feel the same way, never, never should a teacher ostrasize a student in front of other students, ever! It is demeaning and degrading. Maybe the parents should be given the opportunity to discuss this teachers personal/physical failings with her in front of either other parents or other teachers to let her know how it feels without the teacher being able to respond.

Those kids need to be strung up by their ears! But you have to blame the teacher mostly.

My son is 5 years old, has been diagnosed with Austism, and this teacher should be fired and the school system sued.

The teacher should be charged with emotional abuse not the school.

this is really humiliating for this child but even though they are really mean these people dont have no right to do all of this this kid is just a human being

I can not believe that teacher is still working!! These are children being taught to be so judgemental when they need to be taught to treat everyone the same equally!!! I am so disgusted by this teacher!

I have worked with asperger's students. There are two sides to this issue. Parents of the other children in class should be aware of the increidible potential for disruption an asperger's student brings. The teacher was probably spending far too much time with that student, who probably made inappropriate, possibly hurtful comments to and about other students. He might want to talk about himself during class time, start singing or get up and walk around. There may have been anger issues as well. I cannot condone her response, but the frustration was undoubtedly real. A student like that should not be in a regular classroom, until he can learn to modify his behavior. Why should the other student's right to an education be constantly compromised by his behavior, even if it is not intentional? Inclusion is not the answer for many students.

I work with under income and kids with disabilities and if I eer did that to any of the kids I would have been fired on the spot. When I come up with problems like this we talk about it. The kids and I. It is okay to explain why they are different and that everyone has something that is different from everybody else. They kids need to know why the children do things that aren't normal. I have worked with autistic children and you just have to let them and the kids that even if they are different you will treat them the same. I give each of my students hugs no matter what. By the end of the year they will tell me if I forgot hug time. "Time to line up for hugs." They smile and they laugh but I treat them all as if they were my own child. Some of them it is hard but if we show kids while they are young how to treat people maybe there won't be as much violence in the world. Like I said earlier a good teacher would of explained that the child had autistic traits and that it is not his fault but what his body does as a reaction as an example. I had one child in my class not wanting to come back to school he told his mom it was because I and the other kids talked funny. I was talking in Spanish because I had a 95% hispanic class. I explained that I talk like that so that they understand and that as we go along through out the year I will speak more English and less Spanish. By the end of the year we spoke mainly English his best friend was a little boy who spoke Spanish but by the end of the year the little boy spoke English and now they keep in touch. By the way I try to keep in contact with the kids that I have had just to see how they are doing now. Both little boys will be in 2nd grade this year but one will be moving to a differnt school. But the power of explaining really works with kids they are not dumb. They are only as dumb as we let them be. This teacher was sSTUPID though. It is clear ignorence to do that to a child. That's is what makes children hate school they remember experiences like this. I work with the 5 year old age group. They know a lot more than they let on.

My sister has two teenagers that have Austim. An incident happened to my niece back in Kindergarden where she was not allowed into class and was put off for weeks. My sister contacted our county's Department of Education and within days the issue was resolved. Essentially my niece's rights where being violated and when it was brought to the attention of a higher up things have changed.

I agree with Theresa. What's going on with some teachers today? I thought teaching was a "calling" like a physician or minister. Well...anymore I just don't about any of "the professions". Now it's all about money.

Hi, I am in abslute awe and disgust with this teacher. She should have her teaching license revoked at once! I'm a 73 year old (male) teacher and I teach 7th graders. Every year for the past 6 years, I have had "special" students in my classes and, I can and do deal with them. I do not treat them any different than the other kids, and they seem to progress well. Maybe a little slower than the rest, but they do complete almost every class assignment.
I have even had them (boys and girls) come to me to give me a hug because I was helpful to them and they knew I loved them as much as the regular kids. The other kids accept them because I told them about the "special" kids at the beginning of the school year.

I can't even imagine a teacher thinking that her behavior would at all benefit that adorable child. She obviously does not have any of the compassion that you would hope is part of your childs learning process.
Maybe her next move is to librarian where they promote keeping your mouth shut.
Good luck to his family