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 was also disgusted at what happened, but not for the mic grab as such. I watched the longer video and it's very clear that Caleb was not supported through that performance. He was just expected to go along with it in the same way as the other kids. As a result he was disruptive. He shouldn't have been in that position in the first place. He should have been involved in a way he could cope with. He looked confused throughout to me.

That may have been because he didn't attend rehearsals. A child who is NT could have been confused at that point.

He should have been involved in a way he could cope with. He looked confused throughout to me

This why his parents should have let him attend the rehearsals, so he knew what was going to happen and what was expected of him. Any child, with or without SN, would have been confused by the situation.

That wasn't the fault of the school or the teacher, it was the fault of his parents.

I suppose you could argue that it WAS the fault of the school because (technically) he shouldn't have taken part if he didn't attend at least one rehearsal. Seems that the school can't win; if they'd left him out then the parents would have made that a www.com issue too. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

He looked confused but not distressed. He seemed to be entertaining himself just fine wandering about the place.

Even when he was supposedly traumatised he seemed to recover pretty quickly.

If it's true that he didn't attend rehearsals then they've all failed him. Poor little lad.

^ going to self-report that as I shouldn't have shared a picture including other children without their parent's permission.

Of course there's a petition now

www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/717/913/238/we-ask-mrs-linsey-of-west-virginia-primary-school-to-resign/?taf_id=31045143&cid=fb_na

This is scary.

Minefields - I was quoting the original user of the ss phrase. I think our posts overlapped.

Oh she'll be resigning no doubt. Poor woman.

Comments from other parents of kids at the school:

"The teacher has been crucified is right! She's been receiving death threats!! I hate social media for situations exactly like this. The whole story isn't made known and the parents made the story out to serve their purpose. Well, they got their 15 minutes of fame at the expense of a teacher who loves that very child."

"I don't agree with how she handled the end of the play. And I am one of the few who will even come to her defense. This is one of the only teachers who has taken the time to help me with my son and his problems at school. She is a very patient person. With the posting of this 17 second clip the whole story isn't told. But people have turned to bully her, now my children's school is in lock down. It took me four times to call and get through yesterday because I had an emergency and needed to change how my children were to leave at the end of the day. Again I will say I don't agree how she handled it but thank god we all aren't in the public eye on camera when have done something we wish we could take back or change."

" I was there and laughed right along with the parents. Most of us, at that time, had no idea the kid was autistic. He just seemed to be a boy that was not following directions and speaking when he was not supposed to be. When the teacher took the mic (before the boy started crying), we were all thinking good. Something needed done because who knows what he was going to say. Obviously, now that I know the whole story, I at least understand why he was acting the way he did. I still feel like she did what she felt was best (for everyone) at the time. Yes, the boy was upset, like any other kid would be if they didn't get their way."

Bishop

You are proving the point exactly.

Surely you can see the real issue is not the poor teacher who was supposed to psychically know a kid who hadn't even attended rehearsals awash going to switch roles half way through and create his own lines after the play finished.

It's about attention seeking parents and papers like the daily mail using life altering conditions as nothing more than buzz words for stirring up hate mobs...

So concerned was the mum for her son she fucking filmed it instead of comforting her child.

Strange that you've not been back OP? Nothing to say? Are you perhaps one of the FB posters who wrote "This fat bitch needs to be publicly hung."?

whats the parents fb page. How do i see it?

So there is not such thing as a disabled community ? Or LBGT community ? I don't think it's being " lumped " together to use those words. On one hand people are told to treat people with special needs almost the same as everyone else, but on the other hand being told to " cut some slack" Can't have it both ways. This wee boy has been exploited by his parents, he clearly had his turn and that should have been that. That poor teacher AND poor wee boy with his attention seeking parents

What a deluded, stupid, thoughtless, selfish bitch.

That's the mother, not the teacher.

agree with cocktailqueen - mother will be lucky if none of the parents of the other children shown on screen sue her for breaching their privacy, let alone the school.

from what I've heard employment rights are much less stringent in US as well, so it could be as easy as 'sorry you're fired,' with little recourse other than legal action.

That fucking petition is fucking ridiculous

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

Brilliantly written article on this whole saga.

Sorry, wrong link.

Lost the bloody page now.

medium.com/@Ymloar/nutter-fort-primary-witch-hunt-9640beea1cb3#.ok0lo8hhf

This one Pirate?

medium.com/@Ymloar/nutter-fort-primary-witch-hunt-9640beea1cb3#.4aw5n58gz

X posts!

Someone has posted a picture of the program on the school's facebook page. Funnily enough there is no turkey or Caleb listed on the cast list.

Proof right there that the parents lied about Caleb playing the turkey. It also backs up another parents statement that Caleb didn't show up to any rehearsals and they stuck him in there at the last minute.

I think the school were being very generous to let him take part at all considering he didn't show to any rehearsals. I bet that if the school hadn't let him take part at all then his parents would have kicked off about that and people would be raging about the evil nasty school who does't let kids with SN be in the play 🙄

It's also been pointed out on Facebook by another parent that the teacher isn't Caleb's class teacher so assuming that's true then perhaps she didn't realise he was autistic?

From her point of view it might have looked like a case of a kid whose parents hadn't sent him to rehearsals but expected him to have a role in the play regardless. As a result she then saw a kid who spent the play wandering around and getting in people's way and not knowing what he was doing.

Perhaps she then saw him approach the mic at the end when he wasn't supposed to be there and decided enough was enough.

People are assuming that she knew he was autistic but if she wasn't his teacher then she might not have done or might not have known how his autism affected him.