More Info About The Drumming Out Of Alex Barton

You may remember that I posted a blog entry on Saturday last about how a Port Lucie, Florida kindergarten teacher, one Wendy Portillo, allowed her students to vote a 5 year-old boy, Alex Barton, who has Asperger's Syndrome, out of her classroom.

Well, here's the contact info for Ms. Portillo's superiors, courtesy of the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, and a MySpace friend of mine, "kafecat", who posted this info on her blog a few days back.

Contact info:

*Morningside Elementary School Principal:*
Mrs. Marcia Cully
cullym@stlucie.k12.fl.us
(772) 337-6730

*St. Lucie County Schools Superintendent: *
Michael J. Lannon
4204 Okeechobee Road
Ft. Pierce 34947-5414
Phone: 772/429-3925
FAX: 772/429-3916
e-mail: lannonm@stlucie.k12.fl.us

*St. Lucie County School Board Chair:*
Carol Hilson
772-519-0397
HilsonC@stlucie.k12.fl.us

*Vice Chair:*
Judith Miller
772-528-4545
MillerJ@stlucie.k12.fl.us
**

Regards,
Ari Ne'eman
President
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network
1101 15th Street, NW Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.autisticadvocacy.org
732.763.5530


Please be sure to keep the tone of your message to them as respectful as possible, and please cc the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network into the messages when you send them, so they can track how many are being sent regarding this matter.


Am also including a link to kafecat's blog entry on this, so you can see it for yourselves, at http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=78853530&blogID=399324355&Mytoken=F27DB57C-A88D-4136-9D315B3835E76E1A110795966.



Hope these prove to be of interest to you, and, if you can, please contact the Morningside Elementary and St. Lucie County Schools and School Board officials at the e-mails listed above.


Thanks, and be seeing you.