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Teacher made Special Ed Kid cry in class

My friend Robbie has autism, and he is socially awkward. He is in a social skills class so I help him. Well they started showing him all these depressing bullying videos, and he started crying. The teacher told him to stop crying and suck it up. Also, the social skills class isn't even social. It is for kids who can't talk right in conversation, but she always shushes us and tells us to be quiet. Every time I tell Robbie to be social, she says i'm "manipulating" him. She doesn't WANT him to find out the truth, although he already knows.
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Teacher made Special Ed Kid cry in class

I believe you've said this before.
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RE: Teacher made Special Ed Kid cry in class

(04-28-2014 10:19 AM)DoA Wrote:  I believe you've said this before.

Where?

(04-28-2014 10:12 AM)PointlessPencil Wrote:  My friend Robbie has autism, and he is socially awkward. He is in a social skills class so I help him. Well they started showing him all these depressing bullying videos, and he started crying. The teacher told him to stop crying and suck it up. Also, the social skills class isn't even social. It is for kids who can't talk right in conversation, but she always shushes us and tells us to be quiet. Every time I tell Robbie to be social, she says i'm "manipulating" him. She doesn't WANT him to find out the truth, although he already knows.

That's messed up, to say the least. Do they cover "social and emotional learning" at all?

What is the truth, that she doesn't want him to find out about?

It sounds like she's focusing on behavioral control to manage the classroom, instead of helping people learn skills... :(

Is there some way you could better-document what's going on? How severe is your friends' autism?
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Teacher made Special Ed Kid cry in class

Here. Interestingly, that post's ID is 32725, and this one's is 32775 - that's exactly 50 off.

Anyway, should I merge the threads? If so, to which forum?
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