Teacher shot at Newport News elementary school

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Public school administrators haven’t done much of anything to hold violent kids (or their parents) accountable.

Their hands are somewhat tied by DOE directives and laws.

That isn't usually the problem. The problem is often the school admin. I have worked with families who are literally begging the school for more support (for example a 1:1 aide or counseling services) for safety reasons, but the school admin still denies it.

signed,
A special ed attorney

I don’t know. Seems like we hear many stories where kids have to be evacuated from a classroom because a violent kid if aggressively tearing it apart and the schools can’t do anything except evacuate the class because the parents of the offender refuse to allow the school to change placements. I do agree that sometimes the schools are at fault but usually seems a bit of a stretch.

You hear many stories? Okay. What you are hearing is just speculation. These matters are confidential.

Confidential? If you think middle schoolers and high schoolers don't share with their parents and then parents share with friends, you are most naive.

Every school, and I mean EVERY school, is evacuating classrooms at least some of the time. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Oh yes. My kids are what you call "star witnesses" at this point. They are pretty reliable on who melted down and what transpired. I haven't done anything with the information yet, but I wonder if parents write in (in a "I understand that this is only hearsay, but if true, I would like that child away in a different classroom than my children and their friends and their beloved teacher" - if admins get more mail like this than they do pressure from the problem child's parents, they have to act right? They know more parents have their backs.

[Anonymous]

How can you and your kids tolerate this?

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Public school administrators haven’t done much of anything to hold violent kids (or their parents) accountable.

Their hands are somewhat tied by DOE directives and laws.

That isn't usually the problem. The problem is often the school admin. I have worked with families who are literally begging the school for more support (for example a 1:1 aide or counseling services) for safety reasons, but the school admin still denies it.

signed,
A special ed attorney

I don’t know. Seems like we hear many stories where kids have to be evacuated from a classroom because a violent kid if aggressively tearing it apart and the schools can’t do anything except evacuate the class because the parents of the offender refuse to allow the school to change placements. I do agree that sometimes the schools are at fault but usually seems a bit of a stretch.

You hear many stories? Okay. What you are hearing is just speculation. These matters are confidential.

Confidential? If you think middle schoolers and high schoolers don't share with their parents and then parents share with friends, you are most naive.

Every school, and I mean EVERY school, is evacuating classrooms at least some of the time. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Oh yes. My kids are what you call "star witnesses" at this point. They are pretty reliable on who melted down and what transpired. I haven't done anything with the information yet, but I wonder if parents write in (in a "I understand that this is only hearsay, but if true, I would like that child away in a different classroom than my children and their friends and their beloved teacher" - if admins get more mail like this than they do pressure from the problem child's parents, they have to act right? They know more parents have their backs.

I would 100% write the Teacher and Principal every time your child has to evacuate and ask for your child to be moved to a class with fewer disruptions. The more parents who write and ask for their kid to be moved, the more the school has a file of complaints to justify moving the other kid into a more restrictive program. The main reasons schools don’t is that they are expensive and hard to find a space. Just keep your note focused on how the disruption is impacting your child and not how the school needs to do something about the disruptive kid.

[Anonymous]

The above is excellent advice. Emphasize the effects on your child’s learning AND their safety.