Florida School District Doesn’t Want Autism Service Dog In Class

[Sismar]

This is just so mean. I sometimes think some people out there need to walk in the shoes of others before they can be more compassionate?



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The family of 6-year-old J.C. Bowen says the dog, a yellow retriever named Pepsi, helps the boy with issues related to his autism and seizures. The dog helps the child stay calm and knows what to do if he starts having a seizure. The family says the dog can catch J.C. if he starts to fall.

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[nick1985]

School administrators should be lined up against a wall and shot. Obviously.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

School administrators should be lined up against a wall and shot. Obviously.

It's not "school administrators" but district lawyers and school districts officials.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/nov/14/autistic-child-service-dog-collier-county-schools/

Gogogogo...NEA !! /sarcasm

 

[IronWing]

Maybe we need to stop trying to mainstream every kid regardless of the disruption doing so visits on the classroom.

 

[waggy]

Maybe we need to stop trying to mainstream every kid regardless of the disruption doing so visits on the classroom.

I agree.

but the school is wrong on this and is going to lose. it seems the kid does fine and the dog is there to alert of a seizure and keep him calm.

 

[Sismar]

I bet if everyone had an autistic child in their family, they would think twice not allowing this boy to have his service dog. This dog was a "prescription" too.

Thanks for your replies so far.

 

[nick1985]

It's not "school administrators" but district lawyers and school districts officials.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/nov/14/autistic-child-service-dog-collier-county-schools/

Gogogogo...NEA !! /sarcasm

The district lawyers and school district officials should be lined up against a wall and shot.

 

[drebo]

I agree.

but the school is wrong on this and is going to lose. it seems the kid does fine and the dog is there to alert of a seizure and keep him calm.

I disagree. If the kid is not healthy enough to be in a general education school, he should not be in one.

His mental defect (as bad as it is) means that he will never be normal. Trying to force him into a normal mold isn't doing him any favors.

Having a dog in school is far too distracting to the other children and the teacher, I don't care how well trained it is.

I went to an elementary school that catered specifically to blind people and people with mental retardations (it also happened to have the best GATE program in the city). None of this stuff was ever needed for these kids because they were treated separately by specially trained staff and teachers who knew how to cope with their disabilites. Had some of these kids been in mainstream classes with everyone else would have slowed learning to a crawl.

What happens when the kid spazzes out in class and has a seizure? The rest of the day is pretty well fucked from that teacher's point of view because the kids will be so traumatized over it.

The above poster is correct: some kids are NOT mainstream, and should NOT be treated as such. This kid is clearly not mainstream if he cannot function without his pet dog.

 

[drebo]

I bet if everyone had an autistic child in their family, they would think twice not allowing this boy to have his service dog. This dog was a "prescription" too.

Thanks for your replies so far.

Not a chance. If my child were autistic, I would want to send him to a school where the teachers were specially trained in teaching and caring for autistic kids. I.E. not a mainstream school.

Trying to force the kid to be "normal" is not doing him any favors. He is special and has special needs.

Autistic kids don't learn the same way as normal kids. A traditional classroom doesn't do them any damn good.

We need to stop coddling these kids and their parents. I have a cousin who couldn't talk until he was 7 and wasn't potty trained until he was 9. His parents refused to accept the fact that he had a mental handicap and kept him in normal school. He slowed down the entire class, and didn't learn a damn thing from it. He is, finally, in a special class, and his development has accellerated noticeably in the last couple of years. The parents should have been told from the getgo that he was not fit for mainstream school and he should have been forced into a special class.

Not separating classes according to aptitude doesn't help the slow kids, but it sure as shit penalizes the fast kids.

 

[Infohawk]

Are these kids being put in a normal class? That is ridiculous. Drebo's post makes that clear.