Okpstman
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- Sep 18, 2010
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This is where parenting comes in. You don't just throw up your hands and whine "kids will be kids" and use that as an excuse to opt out of teaching your kid basic manners and the most elemental human behavior.
My kids wouldn't pick on a girl with issues. They know I would kick their ass. Also, they have a kid with cerebal palsy in their class. they are friends with him and with his siblings. They see him being rolled to school by his brother, and when they spend the night or go shopping with that family, he goes with them. THAT is why you integrate kids. So they are accustomed to people who are different, and so they learn to act like human beings instead of animals.
I've not said the kids shouldn't be punished. The big fault here lies with the 1) the parents of the cp child 2) the parents of the other kids
No one should pick on kids with issues. But it happens. You address it, and go on. You don't charge the bus, and start screaming at other kids about it.
When you force this 'integration' you're talking about, be aware of the problems that WILL come from it.
Instead of moving the girl to a 'special' school....instead, we forced her into a group of normal kids, and now we expect the normal kids to treat her as a normal child. She's not. You can't make her normal. All you can do, is force kids to pretend that she is.
The parent of the needy child, demanded that his child be accepted, and treated as 'normal'. Then when she's picked on, like 99% of other normal kids in schools, with a smack to the head by other kids, or a condom prank, the father freaks out, because his kid is special.
Which is it? Is the child normal? Or 'special'.