Last week, [Wendy] Portillo held a vote in her classroom in which the students “voted out” 5-year-old Alex Barton, who is in the process of being tested for Asperger’s Disorder, a type of high-functioning autism, said his mother, Melissa Barton.
After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn’t like about Alex the teacher said they were going to take a vote, Barton said. They said he was “disgusting” and “annoying,” Barton said.
Kids are mean enough to each other without calculated help from their teachers. Ridiculous.
WTF, maybe they should rethink their fucking criteria!
I don’t know what you would call it if it isn’t emotional abuse. A very similar experience happened to our son when his third grade teacher decided to hold a class meeting and let the kids say how they felt about our son’s behavior in the class. He has Asperger’s Disorder.