Another update on Alex Barton
May. 31st, 2008 06:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Here.
Somebody elsewhere tried turning this into a commentary on mainstreaming, and why this proves that it's not appropriate or something (and when I was young there was no diagnosis Asperger, so this kid would never be "mainstreamed", would he. He'd just be in the regular classroom as a matter of course, and people would have to deal), ever - and I'm still upset. How is that relevant to the fact that the teacher acted wrongly?
"Oh, well we don't know the whole story."
Well, yeah. I've been following this story. I know we don't have the whole story, and I know people are so upset that it's quite likely we'll never have the whole story. But what we have of the story is that the teacher admitted to using the other students to - in the best possible light here - discipline another student.
Five year olds, too.
I'm not really sure what other part of the story is going to justify that.
Somebody elsewhere tried turning this into a commentary on mainstreaming, and why this proves that it's not appropriate or something (and when I was young there was no diagnosis Asperger, so this kid would never be "mainstreamed", would he. He'd just be in the regular classroom as a matter of course, and people would have to deal), ever - and I'm still upset. How is that relevant to the fact that the teacher acted wrongly?
"Oh, well we don't know the whole story."
Well, yeah. I've been following this story. I know we don't have the whole story, and I know people are so upset that it's quite likely we'll never have the whole story. But what we have of the story is that the teacher admitted to using the other students to - in the best possible light here - discipline another student.
Five year olds, too.
I'm not really sure what other part of the story is going to justify that.
