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I volunteered in my daughter's classrooms every week when they were growing up. I can recall an incident in 3 grade with one young boy. He had emotional problems and was having a melt down. He started hitting the teacher when she tried to calm him down. He started throwing his desk and chair. She left me in the class to make sure he did not harm himself or the other kids while she ran and got his "counselor"(can't think of the actual title for him) who had stepped out for a short time. The man came in and talked to the boy and then physically removed him from the classroom. It was not a good scene. I can understand why some children need to be handcuffed. It is so they do not harm themselves or anyone else.
We can thank 'mainstreaming' and the whole 'least restrictive envionment' mantra of the 80's for these kinds of debacles... One wonders if the social 'progressives' of the time stopped to think what the impact would be on the other children or on society at large of insisting that every child have an educational plan tailored to his needs that doesn't unduly set him apart from his peers... and that virtually everyone other than the bona fide criminally insane be released from long-term care. For the most part, these decisions were well intended, but as is so often the case, implementation was ill-conceived, badly planned and poorly executed...
IN my opinion, this kind of kid's rights are considered over all the other kids' educations. No teacher should ever have to interrupt class to deal with that kind of scene or to make a choice between one kid's behavior over all the rest of the kids. Until the parents of one child there for an education sues the parents of the child who is stealing time from an entire class due to his or her behavior, nothing much will change.
@RainCityWoman, You’re right. The rest of the children in this class deserve an education. And they deserve to learn in a safe environment. Instead, a chunk of their valuable learning time is stolen from them because the teachers have to deal with these situations. It happens more than you think.
This particular child has probably acted violently before and the first victims are often innocent classmates who are probably already afraid of him. Interventions have most certainly been applied. When a child is this violent the interventions don’t work and it continues to escalate. Staff and students know he’s going to act out again and tip toe around trying not to trigger it. Sad.
Parents need to speak up. But they can’t unless they see it going on because staff isn’t going to discuss this child’s problem in depth outside of school. If parents really want to know what’s going on in their child’s school, they really have to spend some time there.
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