What’s crippling are all the nice white parents demanding MCPS give them k-12 access to language immersion programs. |
No one has addressed this. Next time there’s classroom violence, parents must come together and demand the suspension of the perpetrator. He requires professional medical care. School children have a right to basic safety at school. Now is a great time to connect with other families. Let teachers know we care about their safety, as well. |
Costs less money. |
Administrators are laser focused on destroying education, as they enrich themselves. |
This is our reality too (Title I Elem School in Germantown). SO MUCH BURN OUT trying to deal with these extreme students only to be told they can’t be placed in a special program (even with documented mood disorders and daily destruction of classrooms and/or violent episodes. This is in every grade at our school. |
How are teachers tolerating this? |
It’s awful because we have multiple kids who need a 1:1 or a placement in a special program but were denied by MCPS (Central Office SpEd NOT our teachers / admin). These kids routinely bite, punch, pinch, kick, destroy posters, classrooms, bulletin boards, etc. We have done FBA’s and have analyzed the meaning behind the behavior but very few of the solutions suggested have worked because these kids need more support than what we can provide. I am sure parents would likely sue for a private placement if we were at a wealthier school but sadly many parents at my school are completely unaware of this process. Because the 1:1 requests/funding are denied, we have to constantly rotate paras and SpEd teachers in and out acting as the 1:1 for the students that need this level support. his obviously reduces the ability of the paras, teachers, cafeteria workers, etc. needed to help ALL the students in the classroom. |
News Flash:
These kids need professional MEDICAL intervention at a MEDICAL facility. |
Children with a fever are sent home. Children with violent behaviors must also be sent home. Sick children do not belong in school. |
What’s a more restrictive environment? Every kid gets their own personal teacher? |
This is a mental health issue, which is technically medical but not. They need specialized programs and support but mcps refuses to pay. |
Mcps got rid of a lot of programs so it would be private placements. |
Two different needs. |
Every kid is entitled to an education, and, MCPS has limited funding (bith are true). It used to be these kids were locked in a basement classroom and got no education and now the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction with the extra burden of lean times for funding (add in morons running things in central office and you have the perfect storm).
We need more special programs, more paras, more teachers that aren't burned out from dealing with these challenging kids all day, doing the paperwork required for all these kids, and fighting with their administration and central office to get better placements and more supports. |
I thought violent kids are sent to the Extensions program, not SESES? |