5-year-old with autism reportedly punished for hugging his classmate, family says

A Tennessee kindergartner with autism was punished for giving a hug to his classmate, according to his family.

"If you don't understand how autism works, you'll think he's acting out or being difficult," Putnam told WTVC."But, that's not the situation." A spokesperson for the Hamilton County Department of Education, disputed the family's claims of what happened.

Hard to understand autism

If u don't know about autism, read up on it; many different kinds and symptoms. Let's learn how to teach these PEOPLE!

People that actually understand autism know that autistic children hate being touched. Something doesn’t add up with this story.

Make sure whoever you hire to take care of your special needs child/ren has education on these special needs. We can’t fail here.

More than the topic of Autism is at stake here. A school and a teacher decided that 5 year olds are not allowed to hug each other or show affection in any way without being punished as if this is a crime. Wake up people. Your children are being turned into robots by liberalism

Curious how many making comments have worked with special needs children?

This is just wrong

I love teachers but this particular teacher seems very ignorant about this child’s condition. No excuse bc there’s a lot of good sources for the public to inform themselves.

Biden

If anybody labeled my 5 year old child as a sexual predator I’d be going to jail and getting out just as the teacher was waking up.

How difficult it is for you to be in england now?

Terrible teachers!

I can almost guarantee you this story isn’t correct.

Just watching GretaThunberg should educate you on Autism.

unbelievable

How sad.

The child has a certain regimen catering to his needs. 👏🏼

One would think the teacher would be more lenient!

This is a strange news story. Children with autism can have difficulty picking up or understanding social cues. Helping them learn how to interact is important and personal space is part of that. Perhaps the teachers tone seemed accusatory or maybe his parents overreacted ?

This is the new America. We don’t hug here.

This school is run by assholes

'The issue for contacting them had absolutely nothing to do with a hug or a kiss,' Tim Hensley told ABC News, arguing the school did not punish the child.' In other words, we really don't know the full story so why post this?

Train all teachers on how to deal with autism & the different types.

I think the bigger story you should be covering is Crowdstrike you know the cyber company....you know....the DNC servers....you know....the murder of SethRich how he uploaded said hacked files to a thumb drive and gave them to FreeAssange. But you're right, thats not news

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