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[quote=Anonymous]A couple things:

1) A child can recount an experience like this in a way that makes them look like more of a victim and it's not "a lie." Especially if the child has special needs like autism or ADHD -- many kids with these diagnoses are ULTRA sensitive to criticism and embarrassment, so for them, an experience that another child might experience as annoying or embarrassing feels much worse. That's why the child's diagnosis is relevant -- this is poor behavior in a teacher with any child, but it is particularly problematic with a child who has special needs and thus has a reason to struggle in class AND may have extra sensitivity to this style of punishment. So the child's "version" of the even is actually highly relevant because part of the issue her is a teacher using a very inappropriate tactic against a vulnerable student.

2) I have seen teachers do many things within the realm of this behavior, and upon reading the OP immediately thought specifically of a teacher's aide my child once had who was very emotionally reactive and used to punish kids like this all the time -- shaming, public embarrassment, threatening with consequences the teacher (much less the aide) could never actually accomplish. Some adults are immature, emotionally dysregulated, and petty AF. This is exactly how that aide would have "solved" a problem like an ADHD student struggling with the directions to an assignment, because she would have been frustrated about having to explain something twice or find another way to reach a student, and would have taken it out on the student. I believe this happened.[/quote]

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