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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Believe me that 99 percent of cases of young children who act like this can be managed by a good teacher with good strategies. Sometimes they need another hand temporarily. In 15 years of teaching, I have seen only a small number of kids who need a different environment. They exist but they are not common.
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It's been some years since I taught, but I would agree with this.  I suspect there are more kids like this than before.  
However, in the 12 years I taught, I had two kids that needed to be elsewhere and were not.  One was an autistic child with extreme sensory issues.  He would start screaming and flailing about and could not be calmed.  We could not figure out what set him off.  He was not removed from my class and it was extremely disruptive and troubling to the kids--and me.

The other was a child who was extremely disturbed.  She came from a very sad, abusive background.  (She had been removed from that environment.)  However, as much pity and sympathy I had for her,  she was a constant disruption to the class.  She required constant "eyes on."

The two years that those kids were in my class were very difficult and I often wonder how impacted the other kids were.  They certainly were not able to have the same experience that my classes were the other years.

Two out of twelve years may not sound like much, but if your child were in those classes, you would likely feel that it was a lot.  [/quote]

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