Kid Voted Out of Kindergarten
A special needs kindergarten student in Florida was voted out of the classroom by his peers. The vote was initiated by the teacher according to the mother in the video.
The Coral and Opal blog made a post on this as well, the author points out that Ms. Portillo, Alex’s teacher, stated that “she and the class a was not ready for him to return.” Portillo said Alex was pushing up a table with his feet while he was laying underneath it. While nothing I read about this said Alex was doing it to hurt people, I don’t see why he was punished. I, and probably everybody else, don’t know why Alex lifted the table. He could have just trying to impress a girl. To play a devil’s advocate, why would a young boy with a disability want to impress a girl? We all know all persons with disabilities are a-sexual. 
While I could spend more time looking at this issue, I want to look at the fact that no major site or news source has covered this. I did a search in my RSS reader for more stories about this issue, and came up with zero hits. So I am wondering why it didn’t get more coverage.
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