that was the exactly the phrase i was thinking not only in the obvious, "this is fucked up as it is so cruel" but also "this is fucked up as it is so illogical"
I have seen this from a couple of sources and it makes me furious. What it boils down to is that disability legislation like ADA and IDEA are not working for aspies and other higher functioning people with disabilities like they should. If you are deaf they accommodate, if you are blind they accommodate, if you have physical disabilities they accommodate (at least to a certain degree), if you are autistic (or aspie) then they promise to accommodate and then hang you out to dry.
I totally sympathize, too...cause I once got in trouble for talking when the entire class was also talking. I wasn't handcuffed, but the teacher had me stand up and walk to another seat away from the other kids while they were staring.
But this story...this is just rediculous. So the kid sang in gym class...so what? And then wanted to know why what he did was wrong...response was to handcuff him and then suspend him for three days? Fucked up. Totally fucked up. And what the school had to say in defense...total BS. Protect them? Protect them from what? From the ability to be able to see kids with autism as more than just folks that are too 'different' from them? God forbid it!
This seems more like discrimination and harrassment to me. Would that have happened if some NT kid was singing? Probably not.
This is why I'm of the opinion... tell no one that you absolutely don't have to. If the kid hadn't already been singled out from letting the school know, I bet nothing would have happened. The horrid part is that once they know you're different, they attack any way they can. If they have even the smallest doubt though and you can get away with more.
similar thing happened not too long ago [within a year or two] with a child of color who, if i remember correctly, appeared to have adad, though i could be wrong. but basically she wouldn't sit still and behave the way the white teacher wanted her to and if i'm not mistaken they brought the police in and 'arrested' her.
too busy right now to check the facts, but i'm pretty sure that was the gist of it.
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And yeah, for a kid who probably gets picked on anyway, handcuffs don't make it better...
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not only in the obvious, "this is fucked up as it is so cruel" but also "this is fucked up as it is so illogical"
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I totally sympathize, too...cause I once got in trouble for talking when the entire class was also talking. I wasn't handcuffed, but the teacher had me stand up and walk to another seat away from the other kids while they were staring.
But this story...this is just rediculous. So the kid sang in gym class...so what? And then wanted to know why what he did was wrong...response was to handcuff him and then suspend him for three days?
Fucked up. Totally fucked up. And what the school had to say in defense...total BS. Protect them? Protect them from what? From the ability to be able to see kids with autism as more than just folks that are too 'different' from them? God forbid it!
This seems more like discrimination and harrassment to me. Would that have happened if some NT kid was singing? Probably not.
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too busy right now to check the facts, but i'm pretty sure that was the gist of it.
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