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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are your options as a parent when there is a child with significant behavioral issues in your child's elementary school class? 
[b]Is the only option to push to get your kid transferred to another class? [/b]
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".[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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