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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know anything about the facts in this particular complaint, but as the parent of an autistic student at a different private school (before we pulled him), the disability-related harassment and the adults using autism to blame the victim are very familiar and very believable.[/quote]

I read the lawsuit and honestly, the racial stuff is awful and shocking but the anti-autism stuff doesn’t surprise me at all as a parent at another private.

I’ve seen teachers literally look away when kids with autism were being harassed by peers (yes, I intervened). Our school let two boys with autism get harassed for years before counseling them out when they finally stepped up to defend themselves. One administrator said out loud to me that “puberty will only make it harder for these boys and we can’t support them.” While that may be true, it seems like autism is the last area around which schools openly discriminate and have a lot of dispassion for supporting current students who struggle socially because of it. [/quote]

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