At a loss with classroom behavior issues

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like all I'm doing is complaining about my kid's elementary school, but lately everything that has bothered me at varying times is all happening at once. The most recent issue: a kid with severe behavior issues--kicking, screaming, throwing things--has been moved into my child's classroom from another teacher/classroom at the school. Last year, my child went through the entire year with another child with behavior issues almost exactly like this--they evacuated the classroom several times a week b/c of this, sometimes twice a day. Now it's happening again. Screaming; tantrums; evaculation. And this year, there is already also another child with behavior challenges that consumes the teacher's time (this kid doesn't have tantrums though--he's just extremely demanding of her time because he has chronic inattention and is disruptive--so there's never an evaculation based on his behavior). Do we just have to deal with this until June? Can I get my kid moved to another classroom? Kid is miserable and I'm at a loss.

Your child is probably being placed in the inclusion classrooms. This is when a couple of teachers are assigned the mainstreamed kids that are integrated with autism or have behavior issues. This is also one reason teachers are leaving the field.

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Anonymous wrote:These two posts do t name the “epidemic” to which hey refer... what is the epidemic?

Sounds like they mean mental illness...but they’re being very drama queeny about it.

I think they are antivaxxers. See the infertility reference.

Oh, yeah, you’re probably right.

I said the infertility reference because it's the one thing that people on this board seem to be able to comprehend. People are either pregnant or they're not. You can't be in denial about it and you can't pretend and you can't negotiate and you can't change the definition.

If you're asking whether I think all vaccines are a great idea for all kids in all cases, the answer is no. If you're asking whether some vaccines are a great idea in some cases, the answer is yes. But I (personally) was referring to much more than vaccines.

We have "food scientists" making the food that our kids are eating. And hint: these "scientists" work for the company who employs them, to try to save the company money in every single way possible, NOT for you or your children. Just think about that. Most of it isn't even food anymore.

Both the state of California and the World Health Organization publicly recognize that Roundup causes cancer and yet we're still allowing it to be sprayed it in our schools and parks and neighborhood gardens.

Our kids are sitting in front of screens when they're at home and now they're sitting in front of screens at school too because it's apparently the way most schools have decided it's easier to control the kids (big surprise). Nobody cares that studies have shown that the more that kids are exposed to screens, the lower their attention spans get.

I could go on and on. There are a ton of issues. I'm happy to start anywhere. But just being in denial about everything is not helping anyone.

DP
Why the eyeroll? If you think none of the above matters, what is your rationale behind the growing number of SN kids?

You're seeing them now. They weren't in school with you when you were a child. They went to special schools or were kept home. You HAVE to know this.

NP. This is called the inclusion program. General education teachers with full classrooms are not able to teach and manage all the special needs. It’s impossible.

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Very accurate. Also, some behaviors have now been normalized. I have a student whose mother swears she is NT, but justified some repetitive and inappropriate behaviors as sensory seeking. Which is it?

NT? Please define.

Neurotypical = NT

It’s a common term used to describe regular kids with no special needs (SN)

What we used to call normal kids but that is not politically correct anymore. Kids that can function in a classroom without extra aids and without throwing chairs.

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It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.

Says someone who hasn’t been in school in 35 years and has no idea what education looks like now. Please don’t step into conversations you’re not capable of having.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.

Says someone who hasn’t been in school in 35 years and has no idea what education looks like now. Please don’t step into conversations you’re not capable of having.

I’m a teacher. Just got my masters in education on top of my work experience. I agree with the above poster as do many of my peers.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.

Says someone who hasn’t been in school in 35 years and has no idea what education looks like now. Please don’t step into conversations you’re not capable of having.

I’m a teacher. Just got my masters in education on top of my work experience. I agree with the above poster as do many of my peers.

I'm a parent of a 4th grade kid in MCPS. He needs a lot of help and while we find the right placement for him, I am homeschooling him. But I often wondered when he was in school how the teacher was able to plan a lesson, differentiate, control the class, complete the IEP paperwork, and keep me informed of what was going on. I know she did all of this during the school day. At some point during her day, she graded papers.

The teacher had to give 150% all the time just to keep her head above water. I work full time and her level of effort exhausts me just thinking about it.

In order to homeschool, I had to find a curriculum for him to follow. Since I work, it had to be relatively independent. I stumbled upon a classical education program. Taking the religious aspect out of it, it still teaches the fundamental skills that kids just don't seem to get in the classroom today. It includes handwriting. We all know when write something, you retain it better. It includes learning to write an essay. Not the hamburger model, but a step by step approach to writing. For my kid, this works---he needs to be told exactly what to do in what order. Asking him to write 5 sentences and telling him that is a paragraph means nothing to him.

So while his SpEd teacher was writing IEPs and making sure that she checked all the boxes of what she had to do each day, my child really wasn't learning how to think, how to learn, how to ask questions.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on jargon and initials and no emphasis on what really matters....reading, writing, arithmetic and being able to behave respectfully in a classroom.

Says someone who hasn’t been in school in 35 years and has no idea what education looks like now. Please don’t step into conversations you’re not capable of having.

I’m a teacher. Just got my masters in education on top of my work experience. I agree with the above poster as do many of my peers.

Thank you to the teacher.