WTF?!

I didn’t know one could do this but in Florida (which my brother says isn’t a state, but a virus) a teacher let her kindergarten class vote a 5 year old student out because he’s autistic.

Wow.

The 5 year old in question has Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a high functioning form of Autism. It can lead to social anxiety, isolationism and eccentric behavior. However, with the right encouragement, people with it can be mainstreamed, I personally know several and most of them are brilliant. After the vote he spent the rest of the day in the nurses office and now, when his mother drops his siblings off at the same school he starts crying and screaming that “he’s not special.”

So I guess the pertinent question here is what kind of dumbass lazy teacher lets 5 year olds make that kind of call? 5 year olds barely know how to tie their shoes, much less make a competent diagnosis on the social skills of kids with mental disabilities. It seems like someone just didn’t want to deal with a challenge and passed the buck…to a kindergarten class. Way to go ‘teach. That’s some fine edumaticating there.

And what a fantastic lesson to learn at a young age too. If you don’t like someone…just deport them.

That teacher should not be teaching. It’s a hasty judgment, granted, but I’m making it.

~ by Sean on May 25, 2008.