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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New WaPo article has incredible accounts of students past violent behavior. I dont understand how he could have done these things IF his parents or grandparents were with him at school. The parents’ statement made it seem like the week of the shooting was the ONLY time they weren’t there. But WaPo article outlines him making threats, throwing furniture, barricading the doors and wandering around campus unsupervised. Where were his parents when this was going on?

Holy f-ing $hit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/21/richneck-elementary-school-shooting-warnings-downplayed/[/quote]

I hate to say I called it, but I did, early on in this thread. Other teachers concurred.[/quote]

He could do those things because the family couldn't control the child either.  This was the wrong placement from start to finish.  I wish I could read the whole article (paywall) but I'm guessing this will come out in other articles.  My school has kids who run out of the room and the building, kids who throw objects, kids who bruise or draw blood from staff, etc.  While this child took it one step further with a gun, most schools are seeing this kind of behavior.  
My proposal is that any child who harms someone or makes threats of harm more than once, in a serious way, is removed immediately from the gen ed room and that "safety rooms" become a designation within Sped.  That way, the kids who need sped placements for learning, and or who aren't a danger to others or themselves are also safe.  There needs to be a self contained room for unsafe children.  It would be their LRE.  [/quote]

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