A Fla. Mom says Her Teen Son Received a Harsh Sentence For Beating a Teacher Because He's Black, Big and Neurodivergent. But What Do You Think? : stupidpol

There needs to be a better option than jail for cases like this. I agree that he deserves consequences for his actions but I don't think jail is a place to teach neurodivergent teens how to be functional adults. I'm surprised they charged him as an adult considering the circumstances though. The story is just depressing and if anything his life is effectively over as he'll be spending minimum 3 years in custody at best and acclimate to that system rather than greater society. I don't see him leaving prison with a better ability to deal with his autism and emotional instability where I don't see a happy ending of him getting the support he needs to function. This is assuming that he's genuinely neurodivergent where he was throwing a temper tantrum because he has the social ability of a much younger person only he's 6'7 270 resulting in the dire consequences for the teacher rather than it being some sort of premeditated act.

He was already in a group home getting services when he brutally beat that b-word, the point of jail is putting him somewhere he can't hurt normal people for a good long while.

I feel like there are a lot of missing details here. Having started my career working in a group home for teen boys just like this and then later working in the justice system, I'm naturally a little skeptical that this boy was in the appropriate placement at school or now that he is incarcerated.

On the school side, it's really tough to know what the right solution is. I understand why there has been an effort to limit the extent to which intellectually disabled kids are segregated from developmentally typical kids. But it causes all kinds of issues like this for both teachers and the kids. A less restrictive setting limits the resources that teachers have to support the needs of these kids, which obviously impacts the kids, too; on top of that, the kids are often subjected to bullying by their peers since they appear "normal" enough on the surface but display peculiar, self-alienating behaviors and habits that are ripe for teasing by butthole teens.

Not segregating r-slurs is one of the worst things to ever happen to the American school system. The idea that it makes normal people more tolerate of r-slurs is laughable, getting harassed by a sped and being told you'll be seriously punished for any retaliation just makes people put more effort into self segregating from them in their adult lives.

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