Student verbally assaulting teacher in front of class

[Anonymous]

My MS child came home with a story about a student calling a teacher an a-hole and telling her to shut up in class today in front of everyone. This student isn't from the community and comes on a special program. It took 15 minutes for security to arrive, and the boy has been talking to the teacher like this all week. Kids said the teacher was crying. If the kid is back in class on Monday, I hope the teacher goes straight to the union.

[Anonymous]

Straight to the union and do what? I am a teacher and this is common, along side throwing stuff at us. It’s part of the job.

[Anonymous]

You need to domain as a parent. They don't care about the teacher. They will probably even blame her.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t that uncommon. I know teachers who have quit because they had similar experiences and didn’t feel supported by the school.
-teacher

[Anonymous]

These types of incidents are fairly common at the MCPS HS where I teach.
It sucks and is one of the reasons teaching is so draining these days.
Sometimes I wish I worked in a normal office environment where you don’t get yelled or cursed at.
It doesn’t happen that often but when it does, it rattles you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MS child came home with a story about a student calling a teacher an a-hole and telling her to shut up in class today in front of everyone. This student isn't from the community and comes on a special program. It took 15 minutes for security to arrive, and the boy has been talking to the teacher like this all week. Kids said the teacher was crying. If the kid is back in class on Monday, I hope the teacher goes straight to the union.

MCPS will say that the teacher should have built a better relationship with the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to domain as a parent. They don't care about the teacher. They will probably even blame her.

NP and guessing this is a typo for "complain" and yes 100% you as parent need to complain that the disruption is impacting your student's ability to learn. They need complaints from parents to get this kid out, otherwise they'll just shrug and say they have to provide education to that kid.
Formal complaints, with emphasis on impact on YOUR kid--is what moves the needle. It's best way for you to support that teacher.

[Anonymous]

This type of behavior should never be tolerated if American schools are to retain teachers. Other cultures would never tolerate this disrespect. Honestly it’s the overly permissive liberal culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MS child came home with a story about a student calling a teacher an a-hole and telling her to shut up in class today in front of everyone. This student isn't from the community and comes on a special program. It took 15 minutes for security to arrive, and the boy has been talking to the teacher like this all week. Kids said the teacher was crying. If the kid is back in class on Monday, I hope the teacher goes straight to the union.

What does "comes on a special program" mean? Do you mean the kid is *in* a special program? So a kid with a disability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straight to the union and do what? I am a teacher and this is common, along side throwing stuff at us. It’s part of the job.

Sadly, yes. The child has to actually lay hands on you before you get any real consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This type of behavior should never be tolerated if American schools are to retain teachers. Other cultures would never tolerate this disrespect. Honestly it’s the overly permissive liberal culture.

I’ll amend this to say, if schools are to retain -good- teachers. Teachers are not students’ punching bags

[Anonymous]

If a parent will try to discipline this child, and be strict , ghry eill be called abusing parents 🥺

[Anonymous]

It's horrible, not that infrequent, and should not be tolerated.
My child had an IEP for years, and we came to know many children with behavioral and physical disabilities in his school. None of them behaved like this (some did have multiple tantrums and hit paraeducators while they were being led out of the room, but no cursing at the teacher).

I really think there should be no excuse. Most children with special needs can be taught to stop doing this.

[Anonymous]

This is an every day occurrence for me as a middle school teacher.

I called the parents of one kid who does this the most frequently and their question was, "What did you do to make him mad?"

I asked him not to blare his music while I was teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's horrible, not that infrequent, and should not be tolerated.
My child had an IEP for years, and we came to know many children with behavioral and physical disabilities in his school. None of them behaved like this (some did have multiple tantrums and hit paraeducators while they were being led out of the room, but no cursing at the teacher).

I really think there should be no excuse. Most children with special needs can be taught to stop doing this.

The bolded is worse than cursing at a teacher.