Articles labeled: Kindergarten

Hundreds of parents of autistic children are outraged over the report that a kindergarten teacher in Florida allegedly allowed the other children in class to vote an autistic boy out of their classroom, Survivor-style.

Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., recently alerted Melissa Barton that her son, Alex, suffers from a high-functioning form of autism called Asperger’s Syndrome, WPEC News reported.

Barton claims that Alex was punished for symptoms of his disability, such as humming and eating his homework. She says Portillo went too far last week when she kicked Alex out of class, and then allowed the other students to vote on whether he should be allowed back in.

Each student was also allowed to say what he or she did not like about Alex. By a 14-to-2 margin, the students voted Alex out of class, according to The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

“She said this was her way of correcting his behavior,” Barton told WPEC. “I asked him how that made him feel and he said, ‘I feel sad.’”

A school bus carrying 32 kindergarten students and 9 adults was headed to Charleston for a field trip collided with an SUV in Dorchester County, South Carolina. Again, not helping with our school bus phobia, guys!

A highway patrol spokesman says a Chevy Blazer traveling westbound on Highway 78 crossed the center line, sideswiped a car and then hit the bus head on.

Dorchester County Sheriff’s Sergeant Mike Miller told The Post and Courier that the driver of the county-owned SUV was airlifted to the Medical University of South Carolina and was in serious condition.

Miller said the county vehicle crossed the center line on US Highway 78 shortly after 9am and hit the bus.

There were 32 kindergarten students from Harleyville-Ridgeville Elementary and nine adults on the bus.

The children were all taken to Summerville Medical Center with bumps and bruises.

Oh, for crying out loud, with all the problems occurring in our nation’s public school system, should administrators really be making a priority how a mom cuts her kid’s hair? Really, who gives a shit?

A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.

Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.

“I understand they have a dress code. I understand he has a uniform. But this is total discrimination,” she said. “They can’t tell me how I can cut his hair.”

An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn’t acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.

Mohawks violate the school’s policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district’s dress code allows school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.

Do any of you feel that a child with a mohawk in your kid’s class would be a “distraction” to their education?

A NY kindergartener was handcuffed after having a temper tantrum at school.

Some reports claim that the school contacted various hospitals to set up a psychiatric evaluation for the boy.

The mother claims that the school used unnecessary force and brutality in handling her son who has some developmental issues and possibly ADHD.

Even though handcuffs seem way over the top for a little kindergartener, I reserve my judgement on this one. Some children with ADHD can disrupt the classroom and cause an unsafe environment if they are not being treated properly (medically).

Especially when the police states this:

The police report says the child was “punching his teacher and swinging wildly at school aides, that he smacked the assistant principal in the face, ran into a corner, and began to throw things on the floor.”

What is a teacher and school to do?

Now, if the classroom is not an appropriate learning environment for the child and his classmates, then the school does have a responsibility to find an alternative classroom for that child.

The class needs to be a safe and respectable learning enviroment for ALL the children.

NEW YORK (CBS) ― A Queens mother is demanding answers after her 5-year-old son was handcuffed at his public school for allegedly misbehaving.

The child, Dennis Rivera, a kindergartener at a Public School 81 in Ridgewood, was put on a chair after apparently acting up and handcuffed behind his back by a school safety agent, said Jasmina Vazquez, the boy’s mother.

“I think it was excessive force. It was unnecessary what they did to my son,” she told CBS 2.

Vasquez said her son, who suffers from asthma, has speech problems, and may have attention deficit disorder, was handled brutally.

They start ‘em mighty young down there — learning how to shoot a gun.. For this Arkansas Kindergartener, his gun toting skills just may have saved his life.

And, what makes this story even more awesome? — This boy is a descendant of Davy Crockett. Yep, for all ya old folks out there, sing it with me, “Davy! Daaaaavy Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!”

Dewitt - Yesterday in Arkansas County, and Arkansan killed a black bear weighing more than 400 pounds. And what really makes the story amazing is that the hunter was just a boy – a kindergarten boy.

(Tre Merritt, Five-year-old Hunter) “I was up in the stand and I seen the bear. It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it.”

Tre’s grandfather was in the stand with him at the time. He says Tre did it all by himself.