I wish I could have seen the video. I work with special needs children and I know how hard this would be for a child to deal with. They dont forget very easily.

I think it’s irrelevant that this boy has autism. It’s a terrible thing to do to any 6 year old child. Not a very caring teacher at all

I thought that teachers are all taught things like how to deal with/treat kids with disabilities? Isn’t this a part of basic training?

What a silly teacher. She needs to be ‘taught’ some empathy.

For some reason I was unable to view the video, but the article had upset me enough. What the … the time and effort that will have gone into an autistic child actually feeling confident enough to perform in the concert, only to have it end this way. My heart breaks for this boy and his family. I understand only too well the after-effects they will have felt.

You’d hope this was somehow a mistake.

Was he actually going to touch it? One of the photo he wasn’t as close as the other. It would have a huge effort for him to even be on the stage. Normally Autistic children ..and..adults have problems being in crowds or near bright lights such as would have been used. There is one large Dept. store group that open their stores at Xmas time after normal shopping hours so they can do their shopping in conditions, atmosphere etc. that they can cope with.

It looks to me like that teacher didn’t behave properly at all. There was still a kid in line to talk! Didn’t she realize that? Is it just a coincidence that he is autistic? Of course the kid was upset. And his mother. I would be very upset too!!

Autistic or not this is a sad display and management on teachers part. Let the child say his part. The parents are waiting with heart soaring and all parents feel this way for child’s part on stage. I say get a turkey to chase this teacher around ???? as for child been autistic the family has enough up hill battles. This teacher ruined an event. The play wasn’t finished the boy hadn’t said his line.
Shame

A bit more compassion from the teacher towards this boy would have been good.

So all autistic kids cry easily do they? Microphones are expensive?? Get your priorities right, look at how upset this little boy is, even the way she approaches the microphone is aggressive.
You’ll actually find autistic kids don’t cry easily they might have certain triggers but that would upset anyone.
My little boy loves performing but was always stuck on the end in activities to be “out of the way”!

It seems odd the teacher would suddenly remove the microphone when there was another child online. When she realised the child was upset why not just put it back for him to say his part?

I know how stressful putting on school plays can be. This teacher was probably trying to make everything run smoothly and was surely a bit stressed herself. I’m positive that she felt bad for this boy afterwards….

Hope this can be sorted out in a way to appease all.

Most little autistic kids do cry easily. Microphones are very expensive. She was possibly making sure he didn’t touch it and the children would have been told not to touch the microphones. Too many judgemental comments here.