[yldstrk]

If I was this kid’s parent, I would be majorly upset with you, dork. There are kids you struggle with and you hope will come around. You don’t isolate them and make them feel worse and encourage your class to pull a lord of the flies on them. What kind of a person are you anyway? Have you ever been to church? How do you think Christ would have approached this situation? Are you totally compassionless? I am betting this kid’s parents are in a continuation of their living hell right now along with everyone else who lost people in Tucson. What is wrong with you?

[Malacoda]

Was I supposed to force them to sit near him? His own behavior -- despite being counseled by his adviser, his therapist and me was what was making them uncomfortable. He was given a note-taker because he was incapable of following course lectures). He was given an "walker" who made sure he got from class to class, because if he got distracted, he'd forget where he was going. He was given five different tutors -- all of whom quit because he made them uncomfortable. He was given a work-study job in the bio labs, which he lost because the animals in his care kept ending up dead (though from neglect or active malice,no one was sure).

This boy did not belong in college. He was incapable of handling any social interactions. His parents were looking to get him out of the house because they could not deal with him any more and they "didn't have the heart" to institutionalize him -- they wanted him "cared for in the community."

At some point, you have to weigh compassion with the real possibility that someone can't be helped in the environment they are in.