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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids never do anything wrong. Look at the kid who is suing the school for not giving him what he needs.
He gave a teacher a concussion and sent her to the hospital and is suing the school for not stopping him.
The teacher is always to blame (did you make sure they were challenged? Did you make sure he felt secure? Etc). [/quote]

The situation in Newport News is what happens when you have the trifecta of an unsupportive parent, unsupportive principal, and bad policy. The parent tried to go on national tv and put blame on her because “her son felt ignored” and he has adhd. This is an extreme example, but these behavioral situations are not as rare as we would like to think. Teachers only take 2 or 3 base level psychology classes when they are in college. The behavioral and therapy work that these kids need is far out of our scope of practice but they still end up in our rooms.[/quote]

+1. I'll add that if a kid is in 5th grade and one teacher between K-5 claims the kid needs a more restrictive placement due to behaviors, it really might not be a great personality match with the kid and that teacher. If a kid is in 5th grade and every teacher since kindergarten has said the same thing, the teachers aren't wrong. It's negligent for schools to gaslight teachers and insinuate it's a failure of classroom management when the same thing has happened with multiple teachers over the years.
Also, there should be a zero tolerance policy for physical assault or threats of physical assault toward staff, especially at the secondary level. That should go to the hearings office the first time it happens with OSS in the meantime. If it's a manifestation of the child's disability, they need to be in a classroom with a crisis response team on constant standby.[/quote]

I'm an early primary teacher and I think there needs to be a zero tolerance policy towards even our youngest students regarding being physically aggressive with staff or threatening them.  Students who do that need more support than can be had in the gen Ed room.  Kids who make threats or hit, kick, etc staff members?  That should trigger an immediate move to a behavioral sped room.  Such students can either learn to self regulate there and then return to gen Ed after a period of time OR they can be diagnosed and treated and if they truly cannot self regulate themselves then great, in the behavior room they stay.  I'm sorry, I don't care if they are 5.  I've had 5 year olds threaten me and it is no fun wondering if today is the day they actually bring in a weapon.  It happens.[/quote]

Agree. It is SO hard to get children placed into a "more restrictive setting" even when it is 100% best for the child, the other chldren, and the teacher.  Schools cannot recommend alternate placements or self-contained rooms because it "is too restrictie" even when the child either 1)isn't participating in the gen ed setting 2) is aggressive 3) needs constant 1:1 support to participate- which isn't being given and can't really happen in a gen ed setting annd so on. And yet...schools here are accused on not being inclusive "enough" and not recommending gen ed setting "enough"[/quote]

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