Comments on: Kindergartner Voted Out By Students

Outraged Mom Of Special Needs Son Talks Exclusively With The Early Show

[unschool]

Orderly classes? OH you mean BORING! Schools aren''t there to educate, they are there to dumb down and conform as many as possible. There is no respect; no rights. Public Schools are a breeding ground for hostility and most of it comes from teachers like this. Why send kids to public school when they can really learn about the world around them from home? Why do we have to pay for teachers like this? This is the 2nd incident I have heard of this week! The other is under criminal investigation and the teacher was removed from the school for a similar behavior. What was the difference? The parents thought their son was exaggerating so they sent a tape recorder in his cargo pants and picked up the berating the teacher gave.

I have seen good children become "bad" because a teacher has chosen that child as their "bad" child. I have seen children being abused by other classmates and teachers ignore it, unless that child should actually *gasp* stand up for themselves. A teacher is never objective, sort of like the media in todays society...

What a mess!

[sylbroyles]

it truly amazes me that his happened in Florida where they have resources and centers for autism.

After this, I am sure all the teachers will be spending the summer learning about Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis and other therapies to help the children get an education.

[sylbroyles]

Posted by Devotedmom:

I don''''t understand why parents of a special needs child would want their child in a classroom where they can''''t get the specialized treatment they need from specially trained teachers.

**on this your are right. the needs of the child should have been addressed all yr long. You need to have a good placement for the child. If a child is not doing well in a mainstream class and not acheiving educational goals, then the child needs to be reassessed and placed in a more appropriate setting such as a special day class where the child can achieve educational goals.

What this incident truly brings out is the lack of help and training the teachers are getting. This childs needs should''ve been addressed at the beginning of the year and all yr long, not at the end of the yr.

And the teacher should have not tried and psychological behavioural modifications without getting approval from the school psychologist and the parents.

You need to have a good relationship with your child''s teacher and contact at least weekly. I email my son''s teacher, leave messages, etc. She will call me back with updates with how he is doing and what he is not doing and how are we (the parents and teacher) gonna help him achieve his educational goals.

[devotedmom-2009]

A certain amount of tolerance is necessary but when a special needs child is holding back the rest of the class from learning, then it is time to remove that child from being "main streamed". In our school we are losing intelligent, well behaved children because the teachers are so busy with the special needs children that there is no time to work with the kids who are in the classroom to learn.
I don''t understand why parents of a special needs child would want their child in a classroom where they can''t get the specialized treatment they need from specially trained teachers.

[tootall10142]

Ater all this not rocket science they are learning here. Ivote we run that *** out town on a old fashioned rail.

[tootall10142]

dont we have programs and tax dollars for tis young man

dont we have tax dollars and programs for this young man?Dont we teachers that we can we replace this *** with?

[ferbaby724]

My son is developmentally delayed with some features of autism. He attended an elementary school where a majority of the district''s special needs students went. This enabled many more students to get occupational, physical and speech therapies on site than might otherwise be provided. It attracted the best of the special ed teachers, who often fought against retirement to stay with their students.
Students competed to be honor guards--you have to be an honors student with two recommendations from teachers to apply for the wait list. The primary purpose of the guards is to provide guidence to special needs students. They walk them to classes, eat with them, hang out at recess with them. Most work in pairs; if one gets sick a friend is still there.
In that school, my happy, gawky son with the LOUD VOICE had friends everywhere he went. Watching the attitude of the best and the brightest as they performed a selfless service often brought tears to my eyes.
This item is topical for me because he will go to middle school in Fall. For the first time, he rides without his sister. The bus is very noisy and that can disturb him. But then our neighbor offered to sit with Jay on the bus, "just in case he didn''t already have a friend on the bus. Because I know some kids can be mean, and I want them to know he has a friend."
When we exclude people with special needs, we deny ourselves the opportunity to demonstrate our better natures.

[hypnotoad72]

Has the teacher been watching too much "Survivor"?

Will the kids decide this is an acceptable form of discipline, to vote everyone they like out of class?

Did Alex get to say why he didn''t like the other kids?

Did Alex cause every disruption, or did his "peers" provoke him into responding, thus making him (wrongfully) look like the miscreant?

I think the other teachers should vote Ms. Portillo out and say why they don''t like her.

[purpleyr0se]

drivelphobe i hope you are always healthy in your life and "normal" cuz with your reasoning the minute your not someone should lock you away from polite society, your a sad sad indivdual and i pity you! you lack compassion and empathy hummmmmmm you really not normal at all those are the traits of a serial killer perhaps we should lock you away now just to be safe!

[patriot12436]

drivelphobe makes his comments because of his lack of intelligence. These people pay school taxes to have an education for their child like everyone els.