A child having autism and a child just plain out misbehaving are two different things!!

“If the parents did what they were supposed to be doing at honme and discipline their children then this would not be a problem!”

You can’t beat/punish/dicipline autism out of a child, but you CAN put them in LD classes!

oh please my butt! It is the teachers job to teach what is right in the classroom. That is what they get paid for. Teaching students at a young age separation, segregation, hate, judging.  Why don’t we let students and parents vote on which teachers get to stay in class? What that teacher did was abusing that child mentally. Who as an adult would want to behave for someone who mentally abuses them. Not many of you. This should not be about a diagnoses or not. No matter who or what diagnoses a child may have should not give an adult the right to do this kind of stuff to any child, not only to the one it was done to but also the ones who learned from the teachers behavior. My teacher did it so it must be o.k. to do that kind of stuff. Degrading students or anybody should not be tolerated. We are all equal and we all have behaviors, some worse than others. Please all of you who teach, don’t do this kind of stuff to our children. Every child has good in them, every child has feelings.

Yes that is true.  I don’t believe the teacher was aware of this diagnosis.  I don’t know the teacher just in case some of you are wondering.  I am just saying…. you don’t know what went on inside of the classroom.  Only what is reported.  I don’t believe this teacher was trying to cause mental harm to the student though but merely to point out the poor behavior.  There is no way a teacher can even vote a child out of class I mean come on. This situation could be resolved with parental support and the support of the principal.  What I don’t understand is if the child was sent to the principals office twice in one day the parent should have been called immediately!!!  It takes special people to teach Kindergarten anyway!

SumOneILove, if, and I’m saying IF he has Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a form of Autism, his behavior is not completely within his control. The oddest part about it, is that they can pick up on an extremely advanced form of speaking for his or her age. For instance the child may prefer to use the word “speak” instead of “talk”. Or “correct” instead of a simple “yes”. This along with other symptoms causes misdiagnosis. Some parents who are told their child has this disorder do not believe it because their child seems so advanced. Many scientist believe that some Autistic individuals are some of the smartest people on the planet, however many have no way to communicate their intelligence to us.

Thanks babe but I AM a teacher.  For those of you saying the child should not be in the class.  Welcome to the fabulous world of the public school system.  It is called FULL INCLUSION.  It is what happens.  Does it take time away from the other kids absolutely.  If the parents did what they were supposed to be doing at honme and discipline their children then this would not be a problem!

If this child was Autistic, what was he doing placed in a regular class anyway? I mean, they should have interaction with normal kids also, but they should not be taught in the same classes. The biggest characteristic of Asperger is difficulties in social interaction and restricted, stereotyped patterns of behavior and interests. How could he even make it to Kindergarten before being diagnosed?

If my child was OFTEN SENT TO THE PRINCIPAL, I would not be surprised if he was asked to leave the class, and quite honestly I’m surprised he wasn’t suspended or expelled!
I would hope my children would not be this disruptive, but it truly is not fair to the children who do behave to have to put up with this behavior.

you are right he should not have been in the class, but that does not automatically mean that the teacher gets to treat him the way she did, there a lot of kids that are way disruptive that do not have asperger or autism or at least have not been diagnosed that way, and have the attention of teachers instead of other students but they would never do that to one of those kids, just because a child has special needs does not mean you treat them like dirt.  How would you feel if that were your child that got voted out of class, be it in a class that they should or should not have been in?

IF HE WAS AUTISTIC HE SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN IN THE CLASS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

What she did was not wrong in my mind. This child was DISRUPTIVE, and had already been sent to the principal TWICE that day. How would you feel if YOUR child wasn’t learning because the teacher was always too busy trying to control a disruptive child that SHOULDN’T have been in the class in the first place????