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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How students are allowed to run the school. How administrators tiptoe around students with severe behavior issues, but we’re expected to deal with it day in and day out. How the fact that one student with serious behavior issues can derail the rest of the class from learning, but at data chats it’s considered to be making excuses when I point out that the week that I introduced fractions was the week that Larlo tore the room apart one of the days and then another day that week he kicked the metal teacher desk over and over again for the entire math block, but when I called for administrative support no one was available to come help.

But that wouldn’t have really helped for more than a few minutes since administrators do not remove students for disrupting the class that way and they’ll just call me out into the hallway to meet with them and the student and in front of the student tell me it’s my fault he behaved that way because I didn’t take the time to explain why he has to do the work, and if I just explained why he has to do it he’ll comply. And the student will try to hide his smile because he knows he won’t face any consequences for his actions. How I have brought up concerns about the student during our collaborative problem solving meetings, but I am told we should wait to go to an EMT until something egregious happens because the mom is combative and will accuse us of being racist or otherwise biased, and how “he never acts like this at home”, so I must be provoking him to act like that. Never mind that he behaves that way in all other school settings. I just need to continue collecting data and document every event.

That’s it in a nutshell. [/quote]

+100

The one positive of this is I will be so careful about the school environment I put my own children in.  I will do anything for them not to have to put up with that type of behavior from other students.[/quote]

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