At least this distracted me from that other, pettier thing I was raging over

[sasha_lilyrat]

I have NO WORDS.

I feel physically sick. I can honestly say I have never been so disgusted in my entire life.

I'm not even gonna rant. I don't know what I can possibly say to this. I'm just going to... well, to be honest, I think I'm gonna cry.

ETA: Making this post public. More people need to see this.

Comments

[malicious_pengy]

This is not processing. Like, at all. Especially the comments. One bitch lady from hell is unfortunate enough (and I've encountered a few), but the fact that like half of them were agreeing with her breaks me. I've done not an inconsiderable amount of work with kindergarteners...so the ones arguing that the kid was probably a distraction are not only morally but factually off base. While he's probably awkward, I doubt he's disruptive. The disruptive kids are the ones with untreated ADD, a percentage of the ones with parents that beat them, and a percentage of ones with very wealthy parents. Honestly, at 5 years old, every kid is fucking nuts in a million different ways, no matter what their health file says.

[sasha_lilyrat]

EXACTLY. And it's a class of FIVE YEAR OLDS, for god's sake. It's not like they're being taught astrophysics. I'd say teaching them to be good, considerate people and at least tolerant of their classmates is far more important than getting rid of any potential 'distractions'.

[malicious_pengy]

This is still somewhat bothering me.

[malicious_pengy]

...Fucking insane.

[otoselkie]

OH JESUS H. FUCKING CHRIST. The woman should be fired and banned from ever speaking to kids again. Not that that will ever help the poor boy heal, though.

[sasha_lilyrat]

*nods* I think that's the worst thing. Regardless of whether she's fired/charged (which she should be, of course, and the fact that this isn't considered 'emotional child abuse' makes me absolutely fucking furious) or not, and regardless of how much help and good education he gets from now on, this poor little boy is going to be scarred for LIFE because of this. He's going to have psychological trauma, insecurities, depression and all sorts of other issues that he wouldn't have had if not for this experience, and it will never, EVER go away. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this teacher has ruined his life. D: No-one will ever be able to fix this.

[sasha_lilyrat]

Word, on everything. HOW can this possibly NOT be considered emotional child abuse?! HOW ARE THERE PEOPLE AGREEING WITH THE TEACHER???

[_stolendreams_]

I... I don't know what to say.

To start with you never ever ever encourage children to focus on the negative things about each other. I couldn't even read most of the comments because they disgusted me. I've worked in the education system, that behaviour was unacceptable.

I don't care if he was in the process of being tested or not, I don't care if she knew about it or not, none of that matters. It's unacceptable, it's that simple, regardless of any other facts about the child, the simple fact that he's 5 years old and in her care makes it unacceptable.

[sasha_lilyrat]

EXACTLY. You would should not do this to ANYONE, regardless of age, mental ability, or diagnosis. The people saying his Aspergers justifies it absolutely sicken me. Oh, right, because Aspies don't have feelings of course *dripping sarcasm*. And any age is bad enough, but he's FIVE, for fucks sake. This woman has effectively ruined his entire childhood. The fact that he said "I'm not special" absolutely breaks me. DDDDDDDDDDDDD: