When teachers attack

Taking cues from reality TV is never a good idea. However, a teacher in Port St. Lucie, Florida did precisely that as she led students of her kindergarten class in voting out a fellow classmate, after allowing the kids to share what they didn’t like about the 5-year-old.
Kindergarten teacher Wendy Portillo sent the child, who is undergoing testing to determine if he suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome at the suggestion of the school’s principal, to the principal’s office “because of disciplinary issues.”

When he returned, Portillo made him go to the front of the room as a form of punishment, she said.

After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn’t like about [the boy, Portillo] said they were going to take a vote.

By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex … out of the class.

[A]fter the vote, Portillo asked Alex how he felt.

“He said, ‘I feel sad,’ “.

Alex left the classroom and spent the rest of the day in the nurse’s office.

A teacher’s job is to help students learn and grow. They are also to be protectors of the well-being of their students, so that each will be in an atmosphere conducive to learning and growth.
This teacher violated her responsibility to this child, and all the children in that classroom. She lacks the proper skills to care for and properly educate children. She led the children in an exercise to verbally attack and abuse a fellow student under her care.
Her actions deserve serious disciplinary action. [Link to "Thinking in Metaphors", with comments on "MS. PORTILLO'S EGREGIOUS VIOLATIONS" of law.]
Perhaps part of that discipline should require her to stand up at a school board meeting, while members of the public verbally degrade her. Then, the public can take a vote to decide whether she stays or goes.