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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Believe me that 99 percent of cases of young children who act like this can be managed by a good teacher with good strategies. Sometimes they need another hand temporarily. In 15 years of teaching, I have seen only a small number of kids who need a different environment. They exist but they are not common.
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It's been some years since I taught, but I would agree with this.  I suspect there are more kids like this than before.  
However, in the 12 years I taught, I had two kids that needed to be elsewhere and were not.  One was an autistic child with extreme sensory issues.  He would start screaming and flailing about and could not be calmed.  We could not figure out what set him off.  He was not removed from my class and it was extremely disruptive and troubling to the kids--and me.

The other was a child who was extremely disturbed.  She came from a very sad, abusive background.  (She had been removed from that environment.)  However, as much pity and sympathy I had for her,  she was a constant disruption to the class.  She required constant "eyes on."

The two years that those kids were in my class were very difficult and I often wonder how impacted the other kids were.  They certainly were not able to have the same experience that my classes were the other years.

Two out of twelve years may not sound like much, but if your child were in those classes, you would likely feel that it was a lot.  [/quote]

[b]The difference how is that teachers have kids like this (either one or more than one) *every* year. It used to be there was a known kid in each grade level and  every year one teacher in the grade level would have this challenging child in their class but teachers would rotate years with a known challenging child and then they would have at least a year “off”. Now no one has a year “off”[/b]. This is a huge reason why teachers are so burnt out. Even one year with no significant behavior challenges can be recharging and remind you why you do this job.

That’s not to say that the kids with significant behavior challenges only have negative qualities. Far from that, of course, but our job is to instruct the whole class and if the majority of our time is spent on handling behavior from one or two children then the rest suffer by proxy. And of course the people with the easy solutions about how to handle these kids aren’t the ones who are with them for 7 hours a day and aren’t the ones responsible for instructing that kid plus twenty something others. Of course it’s easier to handle when you’re not immersed in it all day long. [/quote]

Very accurate. Also, some behaviors have now been normalized. I have a student whose mother swears she is NT, but justified some repetitive and inappropriate behaviors as sensory seeking. Which is it?[/quote]

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