Aspies For Freedom

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Tards and stickers

I teach special education, kindergarten through 6th grade. I think it is important to note that my tards will do anything for stickers.

One of my kids is a highly-functioning autistic. He is very smart, but quite troubled. This was our sticker conversation today, (“Brad” is his name):

Brad: "Do I get two stickers today, one for last Wednesday and one for today?"
Me: "No, Brad, you didn't earn your sticker last Wednesday, you did not make good choices, and talked back to the recess teacher and kicked Fred."
Brad: "Fine. I hate you. I hate you so much. My Dad hates you to. You're a sorry bitch. My dad buys me all the stickers I want, so I don't even need more stickers. You are greedy and an asshole."

At this point I hit the button on the wall, to summon the principal for help.

Brad starts to tear his sticker book apart. Page by page, ripping it to shreds. This lasts for like 30 seconds. At which point he looks at me and says, "Now look what you made me do!! My dad is gonna be so mad at you. You owe me three months of stickers for this."

Needless to say, the tard will not get another sticker from me. He will not get to chose from the Friday treat jar either.
http://www.tard-blog.com/riti2.html

The whole blog is mean to be in a humorous vein, but it is a real special ed teacher writing, and seeing the attitude from the teachers who post, it explains a lot of the "behaviours" that need "restraining".

When we look at the posts such as that regarding the padded cell in news today, its really shows it in another light.
I am not saying that all teachers are like that, but some are, and it makes me sick.

I wouldn't take that site too seriously - it seems to be related to tuckermax.com, which while amusing in some respects, is too outrageous in my opinion to be a serious chronicle - I suspect a great deal of what is written on tuckermax to have a lot of license taken to turn a boring story into an over-the-top one.  Likewise, that site Amy posted seems to be in the same vein, with probably the same editorial staff going through making a particular entry is as offensive as possible, while trying to remain serious.

But the detail that shes saying shows that she is at least a helper with kids with special needs.

yea but retard and the tard being a shortened form.


this is unacceptable.  

I  remember when I was in so called special ed.  I was treated poorly at times.    Yea I hate most of my early techers and those damn psychologists. I was put thru a lot of mental anguish.  In math we did nothing but mimeos of math problems while watching cartoons on tv. the other school was the same except it was happy days instead playing.

I had a special ed teacher, and she also called me "kiddo" (and it was an 8th grade class). " Today class we are going to learn how to tell time :roll: ", while I briefly looked up then went back to my book on quantum mechanics. She alway's spoke down to the class like that, I think that year I learned more at home than at school. I can't belive how lucky I was to go to college at only 15 (right now I am being home schooled partly and taking college courses, next year I'll be in college full time; I didn't drop out).

Anyone can come up with that level of detail.  I didn't see anything in that posting that described anything a special-needs teacher actually does that they are specifically trained for that the layperson wouldn't know.  (and yes, there is enough such knowledge to make that obvious).

Without any further indication that this blog is "real" - the prominent tuckermax link drops credibility to below zero - I'm simply going to classify that page as "shock" material akin to howard stern - shock fluff, nothing serious.

I certainly felt that she was describing situations that the lay person wouldnt know, and that she was working in a school.