Behavioral Issues in Classroom

[Anonymous]

What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

It is one of the most eye rolling and disgusting reactions they give.

[Anonymous]

You should talk to the admin about how the issue is impacting YOUR child and ask for a transfer. DC had kids like this in their class a few times during elementary and DC had no issues.

I do know a girl who had anxiety whose parents asked for her to be transferred out and it was granted. They blamed the environment for their girl's inability to learn. Turns out later she has LDs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

MCPS is legally obligated to educate the kid causing disruption. They have to be in someone’s class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

MCPS is legally obligated to educate the kid causing disruption. They have to be in someone’s class.

It doesn’t need to be a Gen Ed classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

MCPS is legally obligated to educate the kid causing disruption. They have to be in someone’s class.

Alternative school is an option. We need to increase capacity for kids with behavioral issues to be placed at alternative schools. It doesn't have to be a permanent placement, but allowing one child to inflict harm and trauma on their classmates with violent outbursts instead of removing them from the learning environment until they can't inflict harm on others is an injustice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

MCPS is legally obligated to educate the kid causing disruption. They have to be in someone’s class.

I understand this, but the child is regularly throwing furniture and books, endangering students and staff. I believe the teacher was already struck with something once. This is not a safe environment for anyone involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

Typical MCPS. They don't care and won't do anything. They're going to make you move your kid, not the kid who is causing disruption in the class.

MCPS is legally obligated to educate the kid causing disruption. They have to be in someone’s class.

I understand this, but the child is regularly throwing furniture and books, endangering students and staff. I believe the teacher was already struck with something once. This is not a safe environment for anyone involved.

Demand your child be moved but it may not be granted.

[Anonymous]

Most of the alternative schools have been closed.

[Anonymous]

You only have control over your child. You can ask to move to a different class or leave public for private.

[Anonymous]

Ask for your child to be moved and explain why.

The misbehaving child has a right to a free and public education ad well. The parents may be in denial or fighting another placement, you have no idea. Or, central office is saying it's to expensive and you've already sent xx number of kids to outside placement. Or, there's no room in outside placement (remember that special ed teacher shortage?).

So many things. Fight for your kid, that's all you can do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the alternative schools have been closed.

This.
The programs were shut down last year and now teachers are being hit and bitten weekly. The children that needed the specialized programs are back in regular classrooms and with out needed supports.

MCPS cut the program so they could waste $168 million on a failed electric bus scheme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class?
Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class?
The disruptions are severe and occurring almost daily. The kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear. The response I've received so far is "the administration is aware of the problem".

They can't transfer all the students out of the class, so it actually isn't really an option. I realized nothing was going to happen so I called local Catholic and Christian schools near our house to see who had openings and left the school. My only regret was not doing it earlier in the year. We aren't even religious but that was what we could afford. Our other option was to homeschool until we could find another school. A sibling who was in a class with an amazing teacher and a good cohort stayed in the public school.

It isn't fair or right, but when your kid starts begging you not to have to go to school as they are going to bed and the first thing they say in the morning is that maybe today no one will get hurt. Then start complaining their stomach hurts, you realize by keeping a sensitive kid in that situation you are potentially giving them some type of PTSD. No kid should see their teacher and classmates attacked while nothing substantial seems to happen to the kid with massive behavior issues. My child went from being irritable and guarded to being really relaxed and happy again. Maybe some kids aren't affected but mine really was.

The first week at the private school literally everyday of the first week my kid came home and excitedly told me no one ran out of the classroom, threw things, cussed, threatened others, hit, bit or shoved someone else, poked anyone with a pencil, no one stole anything, no one ripped up anything, they didn't have to evacuate the classroom, etc. It is so sad that we let one kid ruin the education of 20 other students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask for your child to be moved and explain why.

The misbehaving child has a right to a free and public education ad well. The parents may be in denial or fighting another placement, you have no idea. Or, central office is saying it's to expensive and you've already sent xx number of kids to outside placement. Or, there's no room in outside placement (remember that special ed teacher shortage?).

So many things. Fight for your kid, that's all you can do

Another problem is that many/most alternative schools don’t take violent kids, especially if elementary age so options don’t exist.