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Do you think my coworker criticizes our autistic students too much?

I mean yeah sooner or later autistic students are going to have to learn to deal with critical people. We love our students but we’re pretty blunt and coward with them. The lead teacher calls them out and points out every thing they do. She calls out students for eating non food objects and not food. One student keeps picking his nose and eating his buggers. I told him to stop that nasty! The teacher called him out saying, “You’re going to eat buggers but you’re not going to eat your food? Seriously? That’s weird!”

Then a little girl out a rock in her mouth and she said, “You’re going to put a rock in your mouth but you won’t eat a snack that I gave you? That’s being a ding dong!” Students give her a look. She said, “Well stop doing that and I won’t have to keep calling you out! It’s the be truth.” I mean she has a point but she doesn’t have to be so harsh with our students.

”You’re going to bit a pencil but you won’t bite FOOD?”
I think people are too harsh on autistic kids or other students. She is tough on the kids. She doesn’t put up with crying. She like “Use your words! I don’t do crying.” She ignores crying kids unless they’re really hurt.” She doesn’t feel bad when kids cry. She told me I need to stop being so soft on students and I can’t be like “Awww what’s wrong” every time they cry.” I don’t.
man that teacher is tough! She isn’t the kind of person that is “awww” or “are you okay”. She is kind but she is definitely not a nice woman.

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5 mo
Im autistic myself so I can sympathize a bit
Do you think my coworker criticizes our autistic students too much?
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