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.

:(

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'm glad to see that other parents from the school are speaking up.

According to their posts Caleb didn't attend any rehearsals as his parents couldn't be arsed to sign a permission slip.

He was supposed to be a Native American but decided he wanted to be a turkey instead.

They've pointed out that the parents didn't even attempt to speak to the teacher or head of school they just decided to take it to social media.

Entitled parents like this make me so fucking

I bet the kid was a nightmare he was just wandering around the stage throughout.
He wanted to be a turkey which wasn't even part of the play. Why was he even allowed to take part in it if he didn't go to rehearsals.

"There usually is but it's easier to scream about a perceived 'ism' than tell the truth."

This, and the previous post I highlighted are appalling. With both would you be happy to say it to people facing racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia or xenophobia? Or is it just disability that means you should put up and shut up with all bigoted comments?

I completely accept that in this instance a parent is wrongly using social media to start some hate campaign against a teacher. Any grievance the parent had should have been kept between family and school and the vigilante type posts are completely out of order and dangerous.

But I really, really resent posters on here using this case to take cheap pot shots at the disabled community. It's completely unacceptable.

There's a thread about this in Chat.

It started off similar to this thread with the OP and the first couple of posters outraged and calling for the teacher to be sacked with more sensible posters arriving a bit later to tell them they don't have the full story and it isn't really wise to form an opinion based on a short clip.

Just like on this thread not one of those posters came back to admit they were wrong. Funny that.

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

Oh look another one.
Is one member of a minority group an accurate representation of them all or is it just disabled people that are fair game for jibes?

Just like on this thread not one of those posters came back to admit they were wrong

Just like the DM haven't updated the story with what seemed to have happened.

It's scary. They can print misleading stories but then don't have to correct them. The damage has been done.

I think these parents need to keep in mind that once you put something online it's there forever.

So when Caleb gets older those videos, tweets and Facebook posts will still be there for anyone to find and how is that likely to make the kid feel?

Poor kid.

BishopBrennansArse

But the jibe isn't aim at the minority, its aimed at those that have (in this case) vilified the teacher without finding out the facts.

What a storm in a teacup.

What is really eye-opening is the sheer illiteracy of the vast majority of the posters who are supporting Caleb's mother - you'd have thought the teacher had stabbed him. The sheer vitriol is astounding. And they have all got the story wrong as well. I despair.

And what was Caleb's mother thinking? Putting the video of all her son's classmates on the web? What about their privacy? She's nuts.

I hope the school/teacher take legal action against his parents. That sounds harsh but really I do. So sick of liars and entitled people who think they can post and say whatever they want

It's not a jibe at "the disabled community", it's aimed at the fact that when SN is focused on, any criticism of the child concerned is automatically taboo.

Racism, homophobia, ableism are labels used to shut down arguments nowadays.

A racist, homophobic, ableist act targets someone because of their characteristic, it is not anything that happens to a person that they don't personally like.

Yes OP, YABU.

That poor teacher! Some of the comments on the Facebook page are outrageous.
Cannot fathom why the mother would video her child's distress, still less share it worldwide.

This, and the previous post I highlighted are appalling.

Get a grip love, I was talking about the mother who has clearly not been truthful about the situation. It's people like her that damage the good work done by people campaigning for disabilities. She's shouting 'disablism' when actually that isn't the case.

The mother is coming across like an attention seeking pain in the arse but the comments on here about the child ( who we know little about) are uncalled for.

Cannot fathom why the mother would video her child's distress, still less share it worldwide.

Five minutes of fame and a shitload of presents in the post to her newly set up PO box.

Bishop this is nothing to do with disability and everything to with a mother humiliating her child with disability to her advantage the mother is a disabilist twat shouting my poor autistic son and probably ended the career of a teacher in the process

This sort of thread always brings a certain sort of person out doesn't it.

I've seen quite a bit of nastiness aimed at his parents on this thread and how they've chosen to handle this but none at the child. Can you give me some examples?

Ultimately the child is not at fault here. His mother lacks boundaries and has therefore not been able to help him understand that we can't always get what we want.

His parents didn't allow him to attend rehearsals but the school still included him in the play.

There was no turkey in the script but the teacher didn't try and prevent him doing his turkey impression when he pulled his Native American costume over his head.

He tried to step up at the end of the play and do an unscripted 'gobble gobble' and that was where the teacher drew the line.

Not the child's fault. Not the teacher's fault.

The issue here is that the teacher is being vilified due to a dishonest parent. Nothing to do with disability or him being a 'special snowflake' but everything to do with a deluded mother.

"I bet the kid was a nightmare" and we have just had "special snowflake" from a poster who clearly doesn't understand equality law.

honkinghaddock

I was quoting a previous poster but unfortunately used ' instead of " when doing so. I wasn't agreeing with them or referring to Caleb with that expression. The post has now been deleted by MNHQ.

I've been pretty clear (I hope) that the parents are the issue here not the child. The parents, as far as I know, are not autistic so I haven't been disablist/ableist with my comments about them.

It's not a jibe at "the disabled community",

I'm not sure disabled people appreciate being lumped together in a 'community'.
To use phrases such as ''the disabled community' It's a bit othering in my opinion.

That was to Bishop.

'm glad to see that other parents from the school are speaking up.

According to their posts Caleb didn't attend any rehearsals as his parents couldn't be arsed to sign a permission slip.

It's good to see that people are using their brains and not following pack mentality.