AIBU to be really disgusted at this teacher in the news?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3944882/Nutter-Fort-Primary-School-teacher-snatches-microphone-autistic-boy.html

It's a DM link sorry....this teacher in a US primary school....she SNATCHED the microphone from a little boy who has Autism right before he said his line.

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It's made me really sad...it seems that some people have not moved past the 1970s in attitudes and think squashing children emotionally is "ok"

Some comments have said "she thought the play was over" and that the child had other lines in the play.

SO??? His face is devastating! He was really distressed! I'm inexplicably angry over this...a child so far away and yet he could be any child who has Autism....it's not ok!

Heartless, heartbreaking, devastation, malicious, cruel-

First world bloody problems! As someone else has said, pop off to Syria etc if you want to see children who are actually experiencing this!!

The teacher needs a big hard slap.

It looked to me as though it was the end of the play & she reached over to remove the microphone. She wasn't even looking at him.

The full video is on Facebook where he can be seen saying his Other lines. My first reaction was horror but on looking more closely it seems more like it could be a mistake.

I do agree that the teacher shouldn't have taken the mic but perhaps she didn't know he wanted to say an extra line?

Yeah, agreed Pterodactyl.

Fucking bitch. Putting on a school play. What a cunt.

I fail to hoe how I tear et outrage will help this situation in the slightest.

YABU

Wow. Brilliant spelling there from me

"I do agree that the teacher shouldn't have taken the mic but perhaps she didn't know he wanted to say an extra line?"

Why shouldn't she have taken the microphone? The play was over.

I think its worse now because his parents have sent his story to the media and now he's splashed all over the internet. Nothing like publicly humiliating your children, is there?

In the face of world events it is quite hard to get worked up about a 10sec gif from the daily fail isn't it? Who knows what happened before or after but bloody hell haven't we all got better things to worry about?

Pterodactyl- your opinion is bollocking shite! 'A good hard slap'??? GTF with that!

Don't think it was intentional on the teacher's part as far as I can see.

Total non event.

Wish there was some sort of retribution for people dragged into the public eye and been subject to an online witch hunt for basicallly nothing.

I think its worse now because his parents have sent his story to the media and now he's splashed all over the internet. Nothing like publicly humiliating your children, is there?

Mummy is having a total blast with her five minutes of fame. Just have a look at her facebook page. She's even posted the details and numbers of the various teachers at school so people can call them and abuse them.

At worst this looks like a misjudgement from the teacher, perhaps worth a word with the head teacher and an apology. The fact that the kid is autistic is irrelevant; a red herring flung in to drive up the emotive . Shame on the parents for exploiting their child in this way to manufacture 'outrage' and get Internet publicity. It's not as if the story is useful for a wide audience to know - it doesn't raise awareness of any particular problem. As others have said, a non-story, except as an illustration of the power of the media and social media to vilify an individual.

It's the parents who come out worse in this to me.

He'd said his lines.
The play was over.
The teacher is not even looking at him.
She didn't snatch the microphone from him at all.

PterodactylToenails

At least find out the full story before posting rubbish.

Toenails that's funny, I was thinking the same thing about the mother.

The DM hates teachers even more than it hates women.

interesting the way the DM decides to mention that its difficult to get rid of teachers "because of the unions". It didnt even happen in the UK ffs, but waste no opportunity to get a dig in to make sure the general public think unions are a terrible thing. Bunch of cunts. They are worse for people than any individual shit teacher

What ever happened to arranging to meet with the Principal if you have an issue with a teacher's behaviour?

It's easier to be a prat and splash it all over the internet instead.
Media Shaming at it's best.

Mummy is having a total blast with her five minutes of fame. Just have a look at her facebook page. She's even posted the details and numbers of the various teachers at school so people can call them and abuse them.

How far are we from the first lawsuit being brought by a child against their parents for public humiliation due to being splashed all over the internet? It will be soon, I'm sure.

Wish there was some sort of retribution for people dragged into the public eye and been subject to an online witch hunt for basicallly nothing

I agree. You only ever hear one side of the story.
There should be a law against internet shaming. Hopefully one day.

I think things are gradually changing.
I often see more sympathy for the 'shamed' person than the person doing the shaming, which proves that people do try to look behind the 'story' instead of automatically joining in with the witch hunt.