Pyle/Whitman for kid with mild behavioral issues/SN?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just no. It's a horrible place for children with those kinds of needs. Teachers, parents and students are judgmental.

Mild special needs is a child who is off task often. A child who has low frustration tolerance and an "explosive temper with a tendency to act out" will be treated like they are a pariah.

This sounds very contradictory to post from earlier substitute teacher guy. Not saying either is wrong just that they give very different pictures

"substitute teacher guy" here.
Bingo. Both of our views can be true. But...we actually worked with students with explosive tempers and tendencies to act out. I can only go by my experience with my co-teacher. I don't feel we treated students like pariahs.
I'll give an example of one (unnamed of course!) student who had such issues. We (in this student's case me, as the student and I seemed to have the stronger connection) would 'go take a walk' in the hallways when he had these explosions. At first he was defensive and felt called out. But after a while....both myself and the co-teacher felt we had triumph when the student started recognizing he was about to "lose it" and would ask if we could go walk the halls. Which of course we did. We were so happy when he self-recognized and averted.

Maybe we were exceptions. But at Pyle, unlike many other schools I subbed at, we were not only encouraged but expected to work that way. Most of the schools were "throw him out, yell at him, send him to security."

Now one of the issues of pariah we couldn't control very well; other students. We could head off, intervene what we saw, what we could see was about to happen. If we knew and saw that, say "Charlie" liked to goad "Tommy" into an implosion we could do a "Charlie, why you talking to Tommy. Go sit down, it's class time."
But...but there was only so much we could do to intervene in student's cruelty to other students.

It's been a few years since I was at Pyle; maybe it's changed. But at least then, I would take it over quite a few other schools. Everyone's mileage does vary!

[Anonymous]

You may want to check out GT/LD at N Bethesda MS, which feeds to WJ, which is pretty solid with special needs.