Intense Support For Spurned Kindergartner, Fla. Boy Was Voted Out Of His Class; Reports: Teacher Rea

[jason]

Intense Support For Spurned Kindergartner, Fla. Boy Was Voted Out Of His Class; Reports: Teacher Reassigned, And Boy Has Autism - CBS News

It is very interesting that mainstream media is picking this up finally. CBS has pictures and an interview. Well I really don’t have enough actual information to have a clear opinion, for anyone to even consider ‘voting’ someone out of the classroom leaves me with a feeling beyond words. Anyway, the point is the interest in the story globally.

Comments

[francisb.livejournal.com]

Thank you for keeping track of this story. I am glad to see that attention to it is growing. I was struck by something in the article, the comparison of the boy to "all the other children." There is no "all the other children," there are a number of children, each of whom are unique.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I totally agree. Aside to the individual child's experience, what it is saying to all the other children is scary... "You're normal, but he is not." And, if one of the children is hiding a developmental or social particularity, the implicit threat of being different is clearly expressed. Truly scary.