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My wife is a Special Ed teacher. She substitued until she got on permanently. I was a Substitute Teachers Assistant at age 18-21. We BOTH worked for our County Office Of Education. We had our son fairly early, we still had to finish college, though she had a jump start.
During this time, I worked with many types ofspecial ed kids. Planned for this job while attending High School. I learned how to use sign language, and other skills I can't remember offhand. The more skills, the higher the pay. I also attended College some evenings.
After our son was born, we did respite care for a few Autistic Children, at the same time. It was wonderful, and great pay. I did most of the work, my wife was in College at the time. It paid our rent. Both sets of parents agreed it was fine for me to watch both kids together and our toddler. They were wonderful. They fit into our family routine, ate over for dinner, sometimes spent the night, etc..
After a while, you can usually watch a child for a minute or so and notice things about him.
It is easy to see this child, from this video, does not belong in a class with children so high cognitively that he was voted out. The school system would not allow this. This was done by an overbearing parent, whom does not realize or care that the destruction this kid causes in class, just the mumbling to himself to drownd out whatever Autistics seem to have going on in their mind, is interruptive to the other students learning.
My wife came home elated once because she got her (first grade or kindergardener,can't remember) Autistic boy integrated into a regular kindergarden class for an hour or so a day. This is wonderful! All the kids enjoyed him, and she got a break. Her kids weren't labeled as grades, but this child would have been about the age of a kindergardener or first grader. She kept her same kids in class for like 3-4 years at a time.
I have never seen an autistic who is predicatable. Maybe this is why I like them (We could have done respite care for any kind of child). But when you plce this type of kid in a class with others of higher cognitive ability, they can drag down the whole class. Never met a violent autistic, but the do jump and sometimes scream, or run unexpectidly.
I can see this child's problems by viewing the video. You can bet it's the mothers doing of forcing her son in this class. Btw, that kindergarden class is probably technically "a special ed class", but obviously with much higher functioning students.
I don't believe the parent over the Teacher, as you all seem to do. The Teacher is probably not allowed to defend herself in the media.
My wife has came home crying over these overbearing parents. They often lie. Yearly IEP's were dereaded and looked forward to at the same time.
I have asisted in my wife's class to keep it "safe", when some animal of a child came in. Poor kid, telling him to sit down and expecting things of him that he is unable to do is not fair. It is caging a child like this.
I have ADD, and can't sit for very long. And dyslexia. Maybe that is why I like Autistic kids, is they have it going on, but it's like there is too much stimulation in their minds for them to accomplish what they need to. My aunt is down syndrome, we had her birthday yesterday.
I have gone on field trips with her class because some parent pushed their special ed kid on her, and he didn't belong there. And this type of kid takes so much more attention and care, that my wife worries over their safety. So sometimes I would go with her to work to give her a break.
Because of these parents, she left and has taught at Juvenille Hall for the last few years. No parents to deal with, and the kids are great. She loves them. When I was a Teachers Aide years ago, I worked mostly in Juvenille Hall.
So I will not back up an overbearing parent making accusations at a Teacher which look more to be false than true. If I wasn't married to a Teacher, and had a different background, then I might view it differently.
It's sad you all assume the Teacher played a part in this. The kids probably voted him out, by looking at his eyes, he is probably very hyper. Probably needs to run, that is what we did with our autistics in class. Something is wrong when kids vote out another child in class. His mother says he has one friend in class, that's just sad.
There could be more to the story. Around here, there is only ONE class for the parents kids to go. And if the Teacher is a nut, then I can see her wanting to move her child elsewhere. And maybe this class is the closest to this boys needs.
If this Teacher did something this awful, she should be fired. He may be autistic, but I have NEVER met an autistic who didn't know what you were saying, even though many babble on in front of them as if they don't understand.
Kids need to be in a class with other kids their own cognitive level. By the time a whole kindergarden class votes out another child, I would say he probably has some serious behavior issues. But we don't know if the Teacher instigated it or what. There are so many things we don't know about this child's abilities vs the other kids, how he got into the class etc..
