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[quote=Anonymous]A homicide does not always mean a crime, people. The article says that the Union is not blaming the student for the incident but is focused on resource issues and the Texas governor’s refusal to provide adequate funding for training, staff etc.

A couple of thoughts I have are:

Having spent the last 8 years working with elders and now making the transition to working with kids at the YMCA in anticipation of teaching in the public schools this coming fall, I wonder how wise it is for a 70+ year old man to be working with students of high school age who have behavioral issues that very often escalate to pushing/shoving not because they are criminally minded but because they have an inability to control impulsivity, anxiety, anger etc.

It’s very easy for elder to lose balance and fall. I read a piece in the news about the Travis Kelce coach pushing incident at the Super Bowl where the coach admitted he nearly fell having lost his feet from under him. Older folks even when relatively fit begin to have balance issues and lose core strength that would help one maintain one’s position when bumped or shoved by a student and using the body blocking techniques we are taught to redirect such behaviorally challenged students. Once you lose balance and fall and the head impacts the floor, that can be deadly at any age - with zero intent by a child with ASD or some other diagnosis to have caused harm.

I’m 53, solid and strong and have no intention of working with high school sized kids who have serious behavioral issues. I’ll work with HS age kids who are NT and reasonably conforming in behavior, but at present it’s my intention to teach somewhere in the range of kindergarten to MS for the very reason that I have concerns about this kind of issue.

I’m not blaming the deceased teacher but I do think it’s important to bear in mind one’s limitations when choosing the student population one works with.

This is definitely not sounding anything like the incident in Florida where a teachers aide suffered a savage beat down from a very large student who lost his shit over his cellphone or gaming device.

But yes there are a lot of behaviors in school kids these days that I don’t recall seeing when I was in school decades ago - but much of what I’m seeing at the YMCA program I work is diagnosed issues either lead poisoning, ASD, or other organic issues that aren’t about kids just being bad - they’re suffering from disorders that compel them to act out and the older and bigger they are the more difficult and dangerous to manage.

What solution do others suggest? [/quote]

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