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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... As a teacher of special needs students.  Parents constantly don't believe the teacher about behaviors, actions, etc.  Thankfully, our school is on video camera 24/7.  This is SO useful- when students (not necessarily mine, but any of them) get in trouble and deny it- the administration can just show them and their parents the video of the incident.  Additionally, when parents insist that Larlo would NEVER have thrown a textbook in my class, let alone repeatedly day after day, and that in fact they believe him that I am the one throwing it at him, we have the video to prove otherwise.

Additionally, in the situations where students are telling the truth, or teachers are exaggerating or completely telling fallacies, or students are being bullied but there was no video - the 24/7 videos have been INVALUABLE.  [/quote]

Do parents truly "constantly don't believe" you?  As the parent with a child with aggressive behaviors, I have a different perspective.  I can imagine that the teacher would have claimed that I was "not believing" about it.  But that was not the case -- what I didn't believe or got frustrated/mad about was how they would consistently never be able to tell me anything about the context and just claim "it came out of nowhere!"  And they would also consistently leave out how they responded to the incident.  And then there would also be times where they would record behavior that truly didn't seem out of the ordinary (like a 3 year old needing some toileting help) or things that simply weren't true or exaggerated (like claiming my child "couldn't climb stairs" when in fact he climbed stairs daily at our house.)

What we needed and never got was a FBA and some teacher training about how to respond to behaviors.  A videotape of my child would have been pointless.  [/quote]

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