5-year old aspie voted out of kindergarten by students

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It should also be added that another reason I don't trust homeschooling is because parents often use it as a means of isolating their children as a means of indoctrinating their children with very disturbing (or at least very stupid) religious or political beliefs that are not backed up by fact.
Some examples of which are religious nuts who homeschool their children so that they can teach creationism or racists who homeschool their children to teach their children to hate minorities.
At least in public school, or even private school, you'll meet a larger amount of people with a wide variety of upbringings and a wide variety of beliefs, allowing you exposure to knowledge that closed-minded parents wouldn't necessarily want or allow their child to have.
While I don't deny that home-schooling can be a great tool for good, it's an unfortunate fact that it can also quite easily be abused.

I've heard both sides of the story, and while I heard the kid HASN'T fully been diagnosed yet, and was extremely disruptive in class, it was a very poor way of handling it. 5 year old kids aren't mentally capable of understanding the procedure that they took, and it basically went to "mob rule". And then to make his own friend turn on him- lovely.

I emailed a link to the story, to my girlfriend, and told her "THIS is why I want our kids home-schooled". And one thing I must say...some good WILL come out of this for the kid: he'll learn the majority of NTs AREN'T tolerant. And please don't give me the "OH, DON'T BASH ALL NTS, SOME ARE GREAT PEOPLE!" I'm NOT bashing them all- but most of them sadly AREN'T very tolerant, and you wind up with THIS most of the time.

He'll learn to stop trusting people so much, and can take matters into his own hands. Good for him

And you all said you'd wished you were diagnosed at a younger age- I'm GLAD I was diagnosed when I was...again, in the early-mid '80s, no one even understood what Asperger's even WAS!! !! !!

Let me also go on record as saying, I then emailed the article to my girlfriend, and told her "THIS is why I want our kids home-schooled". Public schools are not prepared to handle "problem" children- the schools have an indoctrination agenda, and it doesn't work on everybody. Works on most, but not everybody. It's those few it doesn't work on that really benefit in the long run.

when I teach I like to use humor. But i've found I have to very careful doing that with children under 8. They believe everything I say just because I'm an adult.

Once a teacher brought in her first graders and said "that isn't Mr. Smith. Thats someone new." She left and I said "As you know I'm Mr. Smith." I was expecting laughter. The children just stared until one girl said "I thought you was a girl" and everyone agreed with her that yes I did look like a girl. It didn't dawn on them that I was a girl though because I had just told them I was Mr. Smith

If you take a vote in kindergarten, you can get pretty much all of the kids to agree to anything, even giving up playtime to take a hard test, by simply raising your hand when that option is given

And of course just as they aren't capable of understanding how to multiply, even if they memorized the multiplication tables, a kindergartener is capable of understanding what the voting that went on meant and how it affected their friend.

Also the really ridiculous thing behind this all is that a teacher has the right to throw any student out of her class, so there was no need for the vote in the first place.

When i was astudent teaching a boy was sometimes removed to the principals office (he had an undiagnosed behavior disorder). His mom was of the idea that he should be allowed to play on the computer when sent to the prinicpals office. The school was of the idea that his trips should be seen as a punishment so he'd want to stay in class rather than try to get sent to the office. The principal kept him from sleeping by loudly banging the drawers she needed to open and close, but she also made sure he saw as a friend to go to when he had a problem. He only sat in the prinicpals office for part of two days before it wasn't necessary to send him. He didn't do the work at the same time the class did, but he did the work. Once he sat there and made a book all about columbus while I was teaching and he read it to the class at the end of the day (it was complete with several facts on each page). The praise from his classmates encouraged him to do the classwork. I also solved the problem of his behavior during my lessons by making sure to call on him at least once for every 3 questions I asked. It was either that or he'd become bored/disechanted and revert to his behavior of throwing and destroying things

Hating my country? Socialist crap? That's where I learned "My Country tis of Thee" and marched, holding flags, and singing "You're a Grand Old Flag/Yankee Doodle Dandy" in the school auditorium. It's where I learned about our marvelous Constitution and the heroes of the American Revolution. It's where I learned about Pearl Harbor - when I visit there, now, 3000 miles away from my school, I still remember the things I learned there - which can sometimes seem almost like propaganda when I see what politicians do with my adult eyes.

Social life at school was hell on earth. But the learning part was simply wonderful.

I am a bit colored against homeschooling because everyone I've talked to that homeschools does it to keep their precious little white Christians from learning about "teh homos".