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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a special ed teacher.  I teach high school students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, so less disabled than the students this teacher worked with.

I once had a situation where we were at a park on a field trip.  One of my students was running around, which would normally be fine, but they were crossing a bike path and I was worried they'd get hit, so I stepped into their path to try to change the direction the direction they were running.  I was literally redirecting the student.  The student tripped, fell and I broke their fall, and ended up breaking a bone.  Luckily, it wasn't my skull, and I recovered.  Kid was fine.

If I had hit my head, and I'd died, then the situation would have been exactly as described here.  I was redirecting a student, fell, and died.  But it wasn't a "violent" student, or a student whose behavior was out of control.   It was a student whose disability made it hard for them to appreciate the risk, and to change their running path smoothly.

To argue that the kid needed a more restrictive environment, or an SRO is absurd.

Now, I don't know what actually happened in this situation, but it's quite possible that the incident happened as described, and was just a freak accident.  [/quote]

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