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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having the kid go to therapy or talk about their feelings with an adult all day as part of a restorative approach is much more of a consequence than suspending.  Suspensions are just days off for them with no consequence.   Unless the kid is a true psychopath or has extremely low intellectual capacity,  they can really benefit from therapy and talking about their problems.  Unfortunately, the admin has to really embrace the process and put in the time to build that relationship.   It takes really compassionate and committed admin.[/quote]

Public schools don’t have the funding and it is not their responsibility for kids to have therapy. That falls on the parents, which it should. [/quote]

Do you know how hard it is to find child therapists who are accessible to low or even moderate income families?  And that’s if the family believes in therapy and trusts the therapist.  There are huge structural barriers to families getting their child therapy.  Just getting the child to and from appointments is a challenge for anyone who works full time.  The schools can’t just give up on these kids.  I don’t know what the answer is, and there are problems with MCPS’s current policies and how they are implemented.  But just giving up on small kids, calling them “bad” and kicking them out is NOT an acceptable answer.[/quote]

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