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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What has changed is that NOTHING happens to the violent kid.

When I started teaching 25 years ago, kids who tried to violently lash out and/or destroy a classroom were restrained and prevented from doing so. Then they were often suspended so their parents were motivated to deal with the issue. They weren't kept in a classroom for YEARS doing the same thing over and over again.

It is incomprehensible that we are allowing students whether they are 5 or 7  or 12 or 15 year the power to control the classroom, assault other students and staff,  and if they please to destroy rooms and cause the entire class to evacuate the classroom. That is an insane level of power to give a kid. Many of these kids are pretty clever and realize there are no consequences. Everything is now based on positives.

The toll this is taking on both general ed. teachers and special education teachers is catastrophic. As more and more special ed teachers quit, there are fewer places to send violent students so they are in general ed. classes. General ed. teachers are getting burned out because they have to do too much and are tired of one or two really disruptive kids making teaching insufferable . Districts have realized they can save money by trying to include most students. Many of these students need a smaller teacher to staff ratio and those classes are disappearing.

There really aren't many jobs were you are expected to be hit, kicked, bit, spit on, and sworn at on a weekly or daily basis and then blamed for not doing enough. A 6 year old shoots a teacher and the school district response is - well that's to be expected, that's one of the dangers of teaching.

Then your workplace gets destroyed by one child as well and you aren't reimbursed for all the items you purchased with your own money and all the time you spent making the classroom a pleasing place.

Now add to that the trauma other students are witnessing on a DAILY basis. Imagine going to work with a co-worker who throws things at you when you are trying to work, will rip up the paper you just completed, who might attack you, yell profanities at you, cause you to have to evacuate your office two to three times a week. It is so sad to hear how happy kids are when the massive behavior problem kid isn't there. They sense their teacher is ecstatic as well.

If you are a parent who has a kid in this situation, sorry it most likely isn't going to get better. After my kid got hit in the head with a rock, had to evacuate his class once a week, and saw how stressed his teacher was I decided to move him mid-year to a private school. There were just way too many problem kids in his cohort that were sucking the life out of his classes. [/quote]

This doesn’t happen in the good public schools. You could have sent your child to one of those.[/quote]

Oh, it’s happening in the “good” publics too.  Do you have kids currently attending area publics? I bet your kids graduated years ago.  [/quote]

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