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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Picture this:

Teacher is teaching a class--whether it is direct instruction with feedback from students or supervising students while they work on a paper does not matter.  Child at the end of the row decides to take out a fragrant lip balm and smear it all over his paper instead of listening or working as the other students.  Said child then starts sniffing the paper.  Child is not paying attention and is distracting other kids with his actions--he is essentially [b]assaulting the rest of his class with the smell [/b]and his actions of sniffing the paper are also distracting.

Mom does not understand why the other kids do not understand that her son needs to be treated differently.  She wants him accepted in their social interactions and, yet, does not understand that he is bothering the others.  Basically, he is holding the rest of the class hostage to his behavior.  
I understand that the child may have sensory issues--however, if he needs to be sniffing all the time and cannot function in the class, there is a problem.  It sounds to me like the mom is mad at the teacher for trying to let the child know that the behavior is not acceptable.

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"Assaulting?"
You know, most children past the age of 10 start to look plain and unattractive, let alone ugly. Odds are your kids fit in that very broad middle ground (read all about it, folks! By definition, 50% of the population is less attractive than average, and no amount of make-up can fix that). Should we let them know that their looks are an assault to other people's sense of sight and that having them in our field of view ( and more specifically, the field of view of this drop-dead gorgeous SN teen I know) is really distracting and unacceptable?[/quote]

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