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!

I agree with you Giles this mother is using her child's upset to make some point about something that just isn't there the teacher and son are being humiliated this is nothing to do with shutting down conversation

I've never been to a primary aged performance where they have multiple mics so I would assume the mic needs to be quickly moved for the head to do the traditional thanking everyone weren't the children lovely and now we draw the raffle etc

That's what it looked like was happening

The child was sibling up to the mic not queueing the play was over and he was upset that he couldn't do what he wanted to. Fair enough that's what children do and it may indeed have had more impact as he has ASD however that does not mean that the teacher was wrong or mean. Even if it was done on purpose (which is not clear) then trying to prevent a child from doing something they are not supposed to is part of teaching.

Are we really outraged because a child was prevented from doing something he wasn't supposed to? Are we really saying that children with ASD are not entitled to the same level of discipline as others?

It's hardly worth being "disgusted" over this. If you actually watch the video, it's very obvious that the teacher thought the last child had performed. She's made a mistake, there is no malice in it. (Why exactly would she want to "destroy" the child in that way???)

Why didn't the mother stop filming as soon as he was clearly upset? why did she take her rage to Facebook? even if the teacher saw him I can't see her takibg the mic maliciously to make him cry she maybe thought he was just wandering about and not paying that much attention is this how some parents talk to schools these days rant on Facebook

Anyone quick to call for this teacher's head might be advised to watch the last episode of the recent Black Mirror series on Netflix- The Hate of the Nation.

The shit storm the mother etc are trying to raise is fucking terrifying. You would think from what is being said and reported (perpetuated even here!) that some horrendous tragedy or abuse had befallen the child, not that someone had inadvertently lifted a mic into which he had wanted to speak (unplanned)!

Jesus wept,- a complete non story. The kid shouldn't have been on the stage. He'd said his line.
The parents are obviously of the attention seeking kind. They're lunatics. Poor teacher.

Come on, thats awful whatever shitty excuse the teacher had.

Yes OP yabu and downright nasty that poor teacher

I cannot believe this has made international headlines. It's not in the slightest bit news worthy, it's one kid and one teacher in one school on the other side of the world. The DM truly is a crock of shite

There is now a Facebook group #teamgobblegobble spouting justice for Caleb. Poor boy I hope he's unaware of this . I sincerely hope the teacher and her employers can cope with this so called backlash.

Perfect example of FB witch hunting on the mother's timeline:

Margaret Magill
Can't see this as it says not available........reading the comments leads me to believe this teacher should be sacked with immediate effect........
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So this person hasn't even seen the video but because other people say it's outrageous then the teacher "should be sacked with immediate effect".

Righty-oh, that seems 100% reasonable and well researched

So many heads needing a wobble over this imagined outrage.

Yabu massively.
I thought like you, until i actually you know, read the story.
The same story you've linked too.
The play was over.
Yes it was very sad for the little boy but the teacher has done nothing wong.
The people in the wrong are the parents.
They're certainly going to find themselves on the end of a huge lawsuit, rightly if they are posting teachers details.
This is nothing to do with the little lad, but all to do with the parents.

i endured the video. that poor teacher, its clear that the kid was ad libbing and she didnt realise, snatching tge mic ffs hyperbole or what?

the parents should be fucking ashamed using their own child in a total non issue non story. Hope the school are supporting the teacher in this.

spouting justice for Caleb.

Justice? Fuck me. It's a six year old that didn't get to ad-lib an additional line during the school Thanksgiving play. He doesn't need 'justice'. His civil liberties weren't breached. His inalienable right to say 'gobble gobble' wasn't ignored. He is just a kid, who got a bit overexcited at his school play.

The mother has her FB page open to everyone including all of her photos of her children, including her vulnerable son.

Pardon me if I don't give her Mother of the Year award. Absolute fuckwit.

lord have mercy - her FB page! Im cringing so much every orifice in my body has sealed themselves. the utter turd that people have written

www.facebook.com/groups/658966440949676/?pnref=story

There's a fucking group called Team Gobble Gobble.

I've watched the video and the boys before him say Thank you for coming. Clearly the end of the play.

One of my best friends has a son with DS and autism. He absolutely LOVES using microphones. Literally will be at the DJ at the kids party begging to be allowed to use it. The problem is that it's never enough and he wants to keep having a go. So his mum has to tell him no and take him away and keep explaining to him that he can't use it all the time. He has his own microphone, karaoke machine etc at home but loves an audience!!

It's the same with a certain song. He will ask for it to be played. DJ will play it. Then it finishes and he wants it on again. DJ says no. Kid has a meltdown. Mum takes him away and deals with it and explains that you can't have the same song over and over. (I never have this song available in my car!).

I don't think the teacher was in the wrong. I think she has had to be extremely strict with this child who clearly loves being on stage, wants to get the applause (which is fine) but has no sense of boundaries.

That's not quite true though is it? He has autism which is slightly different to a " kid who got a bit overexcited at his school play "

Some articles, and the full length video, show that he was allowed to speak his lines, and also move around the stage where he wanted. He was allowed to change his own costume from being on his shoulders, to being a headdress. There are reports he kept shouting out during the performance. It sounds like he was accommodated to be able to perform and participate in the play, and the teacher took the microphone after the last practiced line. End of performance, despite little Caleb deciding he wanted to ad-lib another line.

Who the fuck would want to be a teacher nowadays?

Any mention of SN and everyone loses the ability to form a rational thought.

And I just noticed she's put an address on her page so people can send her son stuff in the post.

I despair!!

Yes people are posting the teachers details. disgusting.
I hope the teacher sues.

I wonder if the commentators have ever actually tried to put on a public event. The teachers are trying to control the audience, the children, the timing, the inevitable mess-ups. They have to make sure that safety rules are followed, there might be children with protection orders that can't be filmed. They might know that little Timmy just said they were feeling sick, a hundred things.

I put on a lot of events and can tell you that the odd occasion I do something bloody stupid. It's just too many things in my head. And I agonise afterwards. But public shaming? WTF?