A Florida teacher lets her kindergarten students vote out one of their own:
Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn’t like about Barton’s 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote, Barton said.
By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.
Like the wizardry story from a couple of weeks ago, I’m going to hope there’s a lot more to this then we’re getting right now. Unlike the wizardry story, I cannot fathom what we might learn that could possibly make this teacher seem sensible, or even human.
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Not to take anything away from the primary issue of this story (which is thoroughly disgusting and cruel), but I was just now struck by what the rest of the class was “taught” by it.
“Today, children, we’re going to work on our fingerpaints, and then we’ll do our lesson on social ostracizing.”
Insane. Sounds like the family would at least have some sort of anti-discrimination claim based on the American with Disabilities Act.
On the other hand Apserger’s isn’t necessarily a legal disability. So who knows.
The autism part of this story strikes me as being completely irrelevant. This would be insane thing to do to any child.