Comments on: Kindergartner Voted Out By Students

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

[maba7]

If Ms. Portillo had been white and Alex black, by now the Shrub would have been involved, Ms. Portillo would have been charged with hate crimes, the school probably would have been closed until all the other children could be evaluated and treated for psychological damage and the various talking heads would be doing sound bites about discimination from the from the front step of the school.
There are very few ''good'' teachers out there, mediocre to inferior is the norm, and far too many are bad enough to be inexcusable.

[thcarson-2009]

Kids are fat because they sit in front of playstations and computers when they get home from school instead of playing outside. I remember when we were kids our parents had to drag us inside at dark.

[fabrat1]

This teacher should be fired. She''s an awful person!! She has NO business teaching any children or even being a mother. How could she do something like that.....

[deepperppl]

The child cannot be put in special ed without his diagnosis. Schools are strapped for cash, and one way they keep spending at a minimum is to make it harder to receive services. My son, WITH a diagnosis of Asperger''s was refused help at one school when he was first mainstreamed. I do have him in a new school, and they are toeing the line as the government expects when you have a 504 plan. What I don''t understand is how a teacher, knowing a kid has a problem, can allow something like this to happen. She''s obviously not mature enough to handle an Asperger''s child. (Well, I guess she fits in with her students pretty well, huh?) Her actions remind me of the British teacher who allowed her students to name their class mascot, a teddy bear, "Muhammed". There was an Islamic uproar. But do you think this kid will be championed so effectively? I doubt it. There really ought to be an IQ threshold for teachers. You''d think a teacher would have empathy for her students, regardless of any disability. She deserves censure (since it''s hard to fire a teacher, she may keep her job, but she needs to understand this kind of thing can''t be allowed). What is the world coming to that a TEACHER will act like the snobby head of a clique - intentionally harming another kid?

[darnedsocks]

HOW DOES SOMEONE AS IGNORANT OF SOCIAL VALUES AND LAWS AS PORTILLO GET TO BE A TEACHER IN THE FIRST PLACE? SHE SHOULD NEVER, EVER BE IN CONTACT WITH CHILDREN EVER AGAIN! I WONDER HOW MANY CHILDREN SHE HAS EMOTIONALLY SCARRED LIKE THIS, THAT HAVEN''T COME FORWARD!

[darnedsocks]

PORTILLO NEEDS TO BE FIRED AND NEVER WORK AS A TEACHER AGAIN! WHAT A HORRIBLE THING TO DO TO A CHILD! IT WILL CAUSE EMOTIONAL / SOCIAL STRESS FOR YKEARS TO COME!

[trenticus-2009]

The state attorney''s office concluded the matter did not meet the criteria for emotional child abuse, so no criminal charges will be filed.

WOW! How could this NOT be emotional child abuse???? I bet if the states attorney''s child went thru this it would be! This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!

[tootall10142]

Must be the gene pool where that teacher was born and raised.

[patriot12436]

I don''t care that she is black. The actions she , the p[rincipal and school board have taken warrant they all be removed from their positions. They are not fit to be responsible for the education of anyone.

[quetzalcrist]

Shouldnt this kid be in special ed?
we arent reading the whole story here,