Disabling comment to Ds

[Comefromaway]

I’m asking here not Education or SEN as I want to guage general opinion

Ds is 17 and autistic. In his class at college is a conspiracy theorist, anti vax, anti masker.

Yesterday he was told by her that if I hadn’t have vaccinated him as a child he wouldn’t be autistic. He told her to F off. (Inappropriate response I know but that’s autism for you)

Should we complain? He thinks it’s going over the top. I want it logged for his own protection. She already made a complaint he was victimising her because one day during January lockdown on zoom after she’d been going on about how Covid isn’t real (not long after a family friend lost their mum) he ripped her theories to shreds using science/logic.

@Comefromaway

It's a student who said this billy, not a teacher. If it was a teacher I would go up the wall(put in a formal complaint) as I did very recently at my dd's school when one of her teachers indirectly called her "special". (as in I'm going to go through this again slowly as though you are all (long pause) special.

My apologies OP. I think the other student can be reported.

Oh my goodness, that is so dreadful from your daughter's teacher.
Who are these teachers.
So many good ones out there but the rotten apples are off the scale sometimes.

Being as your son doesn’t want you to say anything, could you maybe have a more general chat with the college about disruption from other kids. And your sons autism making it hard for him to not be drawn into things. But that you expect him to be supported, not disciplined because troublemakers are enjoying goading him. I really feel the college has a responsibility to help him here and show understanding.

@ComtesseDeSpair

Is this the teacher? In which case, absolutely report to the college. If it’s a classmate then ultimately, your DS will meet plenty of people in his lifetime who have different beliefs and opinions to his - and some of them will be wrong and some of them he’ll find offensive. I’m not sure what writing to the school will achieve - some people do believe that vaccines are linked with autism, and they’re wrong of course, and if somebody tells them to fuck off then that’s the consequence of sharing that opinion; but I don’t think the belief is disablist in itself.

I agree with the above and it seems your son handled himself really well.