Bullying of Special Needs Children

[mwalton]

I cannot personally say this any better. So with permission I repost this from http://theconnorchronicles.wordpress.com/

April 24, 2012 by Flannery

How would you feel if your child was being bullied at school?  When I ask that, I mean your child with autism, who

Comments

[sassie_kat]

You know, I hope, that I would NEVER condone this type of behavior in any adult working with children of any kind. And I know these aren't YOUR words. But please keep in mind that teachers like this are in the minority and many of us care about your (universal) children beyond the wildest imaginings.

[mwalton]

I agree! Which is why I think it's so important to call out the bad ones. In fact I think Connor's Resource teacher is an amazing woman. And when I think of good teachers I think of you too, wish there were more like you and Mrs. Rohr, because you guys are the best! Unfortunately lately I've been running into more of the bad kind than the good kind but people you you and her give me hope!

[mwalton]

Nope not my blog but I highly recommend it, she is amazing and funny and so very real.

[elamine]

OK, so what do you think the most succinct way of posting this to Facebook would be? I know if I just put it all up I'll get all the BS back, and I want to have the message actually be effective.

[mwalton]

I don't know that's why I copied it from the source to here, you could always post as a link the original source. If you go to http://theconnorchronicles.wordpress.com/
where I got the post from and scroll down past today's entry to this one there is a share on Facebook link at the bottom of the post.

[nannanewman]

That bullying incident was so painful for me to watch/listen to. I think that fully falls into the IWN....category...I cannot even imagine why anyone like those "educators" would be in the occupation they are...