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School board suspends teacher who let class vote out autistic student

November 20th, 2008

From Fox News, the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

A Florida school board has voted unanimously to suspend without pay the teacher who allowed her kindergartners to vote to eject a student with autism from her class.

St. Lucie County Superintendent of Schools Michael Lannon wrote a letter stating that Wendy Portillo’s actions “caused community and, in fact, worldwide outrage and condemnation.”

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One Response to “School board suspends teacher who let class vote out autistic student”

Suzanne Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Good for the school board. Ms. Portillo is definitely in the wrong line of work….Maybe she can go to Hollywood and find a job writing for Ben Stiller!

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