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[TheUrbanMyth]

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[Kaypea]

We know so little about the situation! What the teacher did sounds like an extension of the kind of thing a lot of people say to little kids when they're being difficult: "If you act like that, nobody's going to like you." I suspect it got blown out of proportion.

[nathanrutledge]

While I agree with TUM about autistic people being introverted, if they are pushed they can explode, especially at a young age.

ANYONE who has taken Childhood Psychology (which is required if you want to be an elementary public school teacher where I'm from, and I'm sure it is in Florida, too) should know that at that age, kids don't have a moral structure like adults do. They are very simple. It is very hard to separate a child and his actions. Allowing classmates ANY input on punishments is totally unacceptable. This teacher should have known better and she should be fired for something like this, regardless of why it was done. There is absolutely zero reason to treat 5/6 year old students like this. They don't learn the lesson that is trying to be taught; they just feel excluded and unwanted, bringing on more and more anti-social behavior.

[Kaypea]

Yeah... actually, what the teacher did is probably the worst thing a teacher could do to a kid who might be autistic, or any kid really... I recount my previous statement that the teacher was just doing an extreme version of a "normal" kid control routine (telling the kid that if they keep doing such-and-such nobody will like them)... maybe that's not such a great thing to tell kids, either. I remember my friend would always say that to her kid, who was a really annoying kid, so it's not like it actually works.

[warmachinenkorea]

These kids are too young to understand what the consequences are for voting someone out of class. I'm sure all of them are thinking, "Yippie he can never come back!" Like someone said, their moral structure isn't they same as adults.

For me this doesn't speak well of the administration of the school. If I was the teacher after my attempts to correct he students behavior have failed I might go the SPED teacher for advice. Then I go to the principal.

I worked for a great principal back in the States. Probably why he is now the director of schools for that school district. He had no bones abut telling parents, either there kid gets in line or their gone for a few days. If that doesn't work then it's a week. Any thing else and it's alternative school for the rest of the year or expulsion.

Depending on where his level of autism fell on the spectrum has a lot to do with it. If it's low or mild then he can manage in a normal classroom setting. If it's high or severe then this kid will never be able to handle the level of stimulation that is in a regular classroom.

[roknroll]