OMG!!!!!

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Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class. After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote, Barton said.

Newbie Number of posts : 22 Registration date : 2008-05-22

This takes me right back to when I was usually the last to be picked for PE team in school. How painful. I would question the teacher's license to teach and to lead a class of impressionable Kindergarteners.

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sat May 24, 2008 7:47 pm

they should now vote her out of a job

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I can't think of anything worse than getting voted off the island in kindergarden. lol. Poor guy!

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sat May 24, 2008 8:41 pm

By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.

Morningside Elementary School2300 SE Gowin Dr
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952
St. Lucie County

Phone: (772) 337-6730
Fax: (772) 337-5976

Grades PK-5
Public school
690 students

http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/fl/2920

Newbie Number of posts : 18 Registration date : 2008-05-21

is there a full article on this one? I'd like to read it.

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sun May 25, 2008 12:12 am

weebs123 wrote:: is there a full article on this one? I'd like to read it.

It's in the first post... the whole message is a link to the article.

It's truely heartbreaking for the family, I'm sure.

Newbie Number of posts : 18 Registration date : 2008-05-21

I'm in awe that the state attorney's office deemed this incident non-abusive. An ADULT AUTHORITY led a group of peers to emotionally abuse another by guiding them to say negative things about him. I wonder if the children were a bit older and the statements made about Alex were more "socially offensive" that this would be looked upon differently by authorities.

Demeaning another person is abuse; but publicly demeaning them would be considered libel, wouldn't it?

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sun May 25, 2008 6:58 am

http://www.stlucie.k12.fl.us/mse/staff/kindergarten.html

You can find Ms. Portillo's e-mail address on the above link. Third or fourth or so down.

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Mon May 26, 2008 10:15 pm

OMG...how can people (adults) be so mean....what a sad sad story.

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The family of the kindergarten boy voted out of class last month is moving forward with a civil lawsuit, said the boy's mother, Melissa Barton.

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:08 am

Since when does a kindergarten teacher have the authority to oust a kid, much less by class vote? Sounds like a teacher needs to return to school themself.

The family has grounds for a lawsuit. Yes, this could be considered libel. And while a school has the right to put a problem student in a special class, no teacher has the right to have one voted out by a bunch of 5 year olds. And since the principal won't condemn the teachers actions, I'd say a lawsuit might be in order.

Subject: Re: OMG!!!!! Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:13 pm

Id sure be one HOTTTTT pissed off MOM!!! OMG!!!!! 929670