It is terrible to hear the recordings of what transpired in that classroom......that poor little guy!!! On the other hand, this video should in no way be connected with teachers in general! My wife is a teacher....she loves the kids as her own and has come home many of times crying because she knows that the situation some of these kids go home to are terrible!!! While it is disturbing to hear what went on, with teachers, just like in any profession, you have some who are just idiots and should not be teachers!! There is always a few bad apples at every place of employment. Alot of this type of abuse goes on in the home as well......from the parents(sad...huh???) and TEACHERS are the ones who figure it out and help those kids out!!!

Again, I hate that this happened to this child and his family, but IMO this video should not be used as a tool to disgrace the many,many,many great teachers that are out there!!!

I could not watch the entire thing. I have a son in the autism spectrum. My son is high performing and not to the degree of the child in the video. We had a good run at first with some outstanding teachers that at times went against their supervisors to accomadate my son, but ultimately we ended up with a bad apple teacher and battled with my son's public school and CFD school district in ard meetings to accomdate his private therapy, refusing to control bullys, and more problem teachers that had no understanding of autism and refused to comply with modifications from our ards. My son went from all As and 100s on TAAKs tests to Fs, tics caused by stress in school, and crying all day every day when coming home from school. He was the perfect victim for problem students and teachers alike. Their solution was to isolate him, leave classes before others, leave school from a different door and rather than explain to bullys and their parents how damaging what they are doing can be, because of privacy laws they would just suspend students that bullied him with no explanation. This of course only made things worse by angering other students and teachers alike. What a blessing it was when we found John Dodd's Branch Park Academy. First thing they did was have all their teachers take autism classes. How wonderful it was to have a math teacher approch me and be all excited when the explained to me how my son see's math on a matrix and will be taught on a higher grade level. Instead of critisising him for using a pen and punishing him like his previous public school teacher did because she did not understand how the feel of a lead pencil could shut him down. If you understand autism at all, to see my son who has aspergers play lead roles in school plays was something amazing I thought I would never see. My son again often makes 100s on skills tests and if he misses a question or two, he claims the question was wrong. He will finish high school in a charter school with several college credits to carry over. It is scary to think of how things would be right now if we still had to deal with public school. Note we did often have wonderful teachers that went above and beyond, but conversations with them often started with "I can get in trouble for telling you this, but...". I do know some public schools and school districts excel in this area, but as a whole the public school system still has a long ways to go in the understanding of autism, training for teachers regarding autism, and accountability for teachers related to ARD modifications.