School won't allow 8 yr old autistic boy to read his bible during free time..

Once again, we unfortunately don't know the whole story.

WAS he reading it only during free time, or did he pull it out during his regular classes? If only during free time I don't see the problem.

HAS he been professionally diagnosed as autistic? Or is he ADHD? Or Asperger's?

Much funnier was the wine thing -

She put de lime in de coconut
She drank it all up
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I think Mom over-reacted to that - it's just your typical silly grade-school language sheet.
 
CeeCee said:
Yeah, that was funny!

i don't think wether he was autistic or anyone of those should have anything to do with it though.

as long as it was in his free reading time, he should be allowed to read anything except of course porn!
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Ah, now you're putting limits on it!

How about if he were reading the Communist Manifesto? The Anarchist's Cookbook? The Satanic Bible?
 
I think your everyday Bible is tougher reading than most books and totally unsuitable for children.

See why the schools are in such a pickle? Even adults can't agree what's suitable.
 
SifuPhil said:
Really? I think your everyday Bible is tougher reading than most books and totally unsuitable for children.

See why the schools are in such a pickle? Even adults can't agree what's suitable.
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If you think the Message of the Bible is a fairy tale then why is it unsuitable for children ?
 
Two thoughts - is he reading out loud or in any way trying to involve other students ? He sounds like he might be being a bit zealous.
Alternately, someone at the school is zealously anti religion. Think Jesus dealing with the money changers in the Temple.

There are children's bibles available that are on a par with children's picture books and the stories are simplified and retold without the gory bits.
We sometimes resort to one of these for the younger children in Sunday School when the actual language in the Good News version is overly difficult to understand or explain.
Perhaps he had one that someone had given him as a christening present. It does happen.
 
I agree with Phil that again we do not know the whole story. Over the years I taught many children who were diagnosed with autism. Autistic children often suffer from perseveration, which is repetitive behavior. There is the possibility that though the Bible was suppose to be read during free reading time that he was constantly trying to take it out and read it at inappropriate times. The teacher may have sent it home for this reason we don't know.

I once had an autistic student that checkout the same 3 books from the library all year. This upset our librarian who tried to prevent him from checking them out. He started checking them out one each week for 3 weeks and then start over again. He would read other books while in the library and in the classroom, but would only checkout those 3 books.

The mother sounds like a highly frustrated mother of an autistic child that is trying to micromanage everything the teacher and the school is doing. The fact that she overreacted about the wine thing and is constantly at the school apparently complaining tells me Mom may have a problem.

I think this is nothing more than the media again overreacting because the book was the Bible. If we really knew the whole story it may very well make sense what the teacher and the school did.
 
If the Bible turns the kid on, why not? My eldest grandson (12) has high function autism, railway timetables do it for him.
 
1. I think the mother was way out of line. She seems to be the complaining about everything type.

2. The bible is not suitable reading for children. Sure there are children's bible stories but they are made up stories taking just a bit of the bible as a base.

They are not the stories of murder, rape, and adultery that are throughout the bible.
 
It was my understanding that students are able to pray silently in school and are allowed to bring their Bible to read silently during free time. That this is not violation of separation of church and state. There was also a case where students were allowed to hold a Bible study before and after school and during lunch and recess. However, a problem arose about the Bible Study group using school property. I am not sure how that case was resolved. We were told that they couldn't do it here, because then they would have to allow others to use school property for their groups.

Again, I feel that we don't know the entire story.
 
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