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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class.  Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance.  I've called home, sent emails, etc.  No response from parents to me or admin.   Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.  
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago.  We can't continue in this direction.[/quote]

that behavior should not be tolerated, for the sake of the teachers and other students who actually want to learn. [b]i don't understand how this student is allowed to continue to behave this way.[/b][/quote]

Teachers and admin can't physically stop a student from engaging in this behavior.  The only solution is to not allow them back in the room but then they're denied access to education.  Putting them in a special placement takes almost an entire school year of data collection, meetings, testing, etc. Even then, it's no guarantee.  Until then, students and staff are essentially held hostage by these students.[/quote]

This right here is the problem and it’s because of how laws are written.  It should not take a year of data collection to move a kid to a different type of classroom and environment.  If an administrator needs to come to class for your behavior multiple times in a week, the student cannot engage in a gen Ed class.  Now said student may not need a special Ed class, and may not need a different circumstance forever, but the child certainly needs one now becuase they are denying themselves and others an education.  Maybe the education this students needs most is on civilized behavior and expectations.  Maybe it’s on how to cope with big emotions.  Maybe the family needs the same and thus needs to come into school everyday for a time until the situation is under control.  Either way, it shouldn’t take a year to start making some changes.  We don’t have to suspend every kid, but we do have acknowledge that significant action is needed.[/quote]

Agreed.  I was reading more details about the young kid in VA who shot his teacher and there was a long trail of issues.  It should NOT get to that point.  [/quote]

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