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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another glaring problem here in terms of teachers being hesitant to act without permission from school administrators is fear of action by the Office of Civil Rights when the child is a young African American male. [/quote]
I do think white teacher/black student played a part in this mess. [/quote]

The mother said that her son actually really liked Abby Z in an interview. It sounded like the precipitating event for the phone smashing and her getting shot was telling him to sit down and not giving him attention. In one interview, the mother basically blamed Abby for instigating the phone smashing incident because she wasn't giving him enough attention. [b]Definitely a complicated dynamic with the teacher.[/b] [/quote]

And the kindergarten teacher he choked? This kid has very very serious emotional and behavioral problems, along with drug using parents. He should have been in a specialized classroom for children with his level of problematic behaviors. Can you imagine how fortunate this school system is that he didn't shoot one of his classmates? It's highly doubtful he had an IEP. Terrible choices were made by these inept and incompetent administrators and this school system's administrators who chose to downplay the severity of this child's difficulties. [/quote]

But what specialized programs exist for kids this young with this level of behaviors?  It's easy to say that he should have been in a specialized classroom, but if there aren't any, I don't see how that is a solution.  [/quote]

I don’t know, if this particular 6 yr-old has this: Born with an absolute inability to feel empathy, compassion, or remorse.  What you do with such a child?  
Education: Becomes irrelevant. Protect others as early as possible.  These children will kill or get killed before they reach adulthood. Once inpatient; individualized. 
Medical; extremely difficult, needs expert assessment. Mental health professionals should refer this up and out.  The adults around these children often have a hard time acknowledging the severity.  There are some programs in the nation, all inpatient.  The cause is untreatable (certainly if born with it), but at these programs they’ve had some success appealing to the kid’s logic that they won’t achieve any gratification, or desired outcomes through violence and murder.  They have to perpetually remind themselves of this though, because they feel indifferent about it.   There is also an acquired similar presentation; and those kids are in the same programs, but they’ve been through very severe prolonged trauma and torture, often arriving older, while the ones born with this have been through no significant trauma and get noticed much younger. Unfortunately, by the time they get into these programs they have often killed multiple times.[/quote]

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