weswelker#83

After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about 5-year-old Alex, his teacher said they were going to take a vote. By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex out of the class.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/...t-classmate-5/

Zeke_Mowatt

Unreal, someone ought to beat that teacher senseless. Can't blame the kids, kids can be brutal, but a teacher ought not put a 5 year old, with or without social disorders, on trial like that. But look at what we expect out of Kindergarten teachers, who they are and what we pay those who take care of our kids...can't say I'm totally shocked that they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed sometimes.

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Patriot_in_NY

Wow, 14-2............. That kid must of been a real PITA.

Our school system is in peril, it really is.

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jcdavey

microcosm of what's wrong with the US and the world

but it is democracy right? lol

poor humanity

Mike the Brit

OK kids, now we've learned what "tyranny of the majority" means. Now, for an extra bar of chocolate, who can tell me what's wrong with it?

[P.S. For our English fans. Any bets on whether Wendy is related to Michael?]

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Michael

I love how every kid that has no discipline is diagnosed as autistic. Use to be ADD. I spent 8 years in a private grammar school and oddly enough not one kid ever showed signs of ADD or Autism. The teacher sounds like an immature product of a school system that makes excuses for everyone and graduates everyone as long as they show up (most of the time) herself.

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Zeke_Mowatt

Maybe not the right place for this, but please don't equate ADD and Autism, ADD could be looked at as hyperactivity and a short attention span, we had plenty of kids around who fall into that category when we were younger, but they didn't prescribe Ritalin for it so they usually just went special ed and ended up being held back a grade until they matured, or they were pushed forward because nobody wanted to deal with a hyper kid. Autism is a severe to crippling mental disorder characterized by what is essentially a mis-wiring of the brain, an inability to handle social situations, and often coupled with "savant ism"...it is also pretty easy to diagnose with very straightforward symptoms, especially now that is has been recognized and studied further, but there are no real "cures" drugs, or patches. ADD has a very loose range of symptoms and is, again, often just hyperactivity and handled with Ritalin. Not trying to be a douche but equating the two minimizes the more serious one.

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Michael

Then how is it that something like 1 in 250 kids is diagnosed at Autistic? I'm not equating the disorder. I'm saying they are quick to throw labels to make them helpless victims instead of what just may be a severe lack of discipline and boundaries at home and at school. If these disorders are so prevalent now how is it that 100s of kids were actually able to sit at the desk, do their work and pay attention when I was a kid? Not one kid acted out or disrupted a class ever. But, now the kids can't control themselves? I think a little Super Nanny is what most of them need.

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KontradictioN

The difference is that ADD is way overdiagnosed and Autism is not.

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"But the state attorney's office concluded the matter did not meet the criteria for emotional child abuse"

Making a kid stand at the front of the class whilst the rest of the kids point, say why they dont like him and make sure it's known he's not liked in school?

That teacher should be hung.