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[quote=Anonymous]Our son is in the later grades now of a washington area K-6/8  (either: norwood, sheridan, nps, green acres, lowell)

in his small grade there have been 3 extremely disruptive students.  two were repeatedly violent, one was not.   the non-violent child and his sibling have ADHD and maybe some other LDs, and their parents pulled them and put them into MCPS where, I gather, their learning needs are better addressed.   It was a two-fer:  parents were told that school really wasn't able to serve the older child who wasn't disruptive and that kid wasn't welcome back.  parents took kid out and the disruptive younger kid too, for good measure.

that leaves the two other disruptive kids in my son's grade.   one has stopped being immaturely and gratuitously violent after -several- years of complaints by parents -- including me.   this kid used to sucker punch other students, kick them in the head/face on the playground, knock them down.   the school's response was that they were aware of it and working with this person and were pleased that we felt comfortable having these candid conversations.  we responded that if they didn't intervene to guarantee our child's safety, we would withdraw him and expect full tuition back, contract notwithstanding.  sounds hysterical, i know, but the other kid had drawn blood from more than one classmate.  we were sick of this school's preaching of tolerance and differences.

the other kid is still unpredictably explosive but hurts other kids far less frequently during outbursts  (as a non-psychiatrist, i'd guess this kid has emotional disturbance disorder.)  this kid also gets to stay and is welcomed again with the mantra of "we celebrate all kinds of students."   we stopped complaining about this kid when this kid stopped physically hurting our child a few years ago; however, i know that this kid still interrupts and sometimes the entire class comes to a standstill while teachers deal.

we put up with that, because there's some truth to the school's stance that it's good for all the kids to learn to deal with "all types."   but the repeated physical violence thing really had to stop and the school needed to hear the words "lawsuit" and "safe" a few times.[/quote]

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