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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a teacher, but in 2nd grade I was volunteering and a kid starting school speaking no English.  He was crying most of the day.  Just over and over again.  The teacher (who was 8 months pregnant at the time) tried to go over and calm him and he punched her as hard as he could twice in the stomach and when she was falling back, another time in the face.  Then he ran out in the halls screaming at the top of his lungs.  Three people had to subdue him.  The kids were a complete mess.  My daughter still talks about that day.  She had anxiety into going to school for weeks.

This POS was back in school the next day.  The teacher never came back.  She was supposed to have two more weeks before maternity leave and come back after the baby was born in May, but quit teaching.  It was so f'ing traumatic.   My daughter missed her teacher and they ended up with some crap sub the rest of the year.

We have had so many issues with ESOL kids.  I understand there is a lack of communication and I have always said kids shouldn't be able to start school or be in a generalized classroom until they understand some English, but even still.  No reason to be throwing down.

This is the RM cluster.  [/quote]

There’s no need to call a 7 year old a POS.  Kids who come in with no English AND a history of trauma are extremely challenging and need a lot of special services/attention.  Sometimes the schools know about the trauma history and sometimes they don’t.  We have had many kids come into our school speaking no English that don’t react that way at all.  The kid is clearly suffering and writing it off as a POS 7 year old is really wrong.[/quote]

Sorry, but if they punched your child in the face or your pregnant belly you would feel otherwise.  I don't give a crap how much trauma someone has in their life.  No one goes in to a school punching. And he was 9 and the size of a 12yr old.  You know how they send kids to younger grades because they have had limited schooling.  Again, not my problem.  It traumatized everyone and spooked the teacher out of her profession.  So glad the only one you sympathize with is the kid throwing punches.  I was there and I saw what he turned into as he was allowed to stay into the school and he was a POS. [/quote]

You are a terrible person and I hope you do pull your kid out of public school and go somewhere else.  I sympathize with lots of individuals in your story - including your child - but that still doesn’t justify calling a young child a POS.  And my kid looks 2 years older than her actual age - that is no justification for anyone expecting her to have the capacities, knowledge, or abilities of a child of 12 when she is in fact 10.  I don’t care how old the kid looked.  He’s 9 and a young child who is suffering.  That doesn’t make what he did right, but nor does it n NB aje him a POS. [/quote]

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