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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm sorry you were injured, but I don't think your story really applies here. No one is seriously saying that all SPED students need to be shunned from society. The OP of this post was advocating that students with a history of violence receive placements where they are not dangers to other students and staff. [/quote]

But there is no evidence this kid had a history of violence.  My story illustrates that a student who doesn't have a history of violence can still end up hurting a teacher.  That doesn't mean that they didn't belong in their setting, which in this case appears to have been a self contained special education classroom.

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Okay? But then we would see accidental death and not homicide. [/quote]

Nope, because homicide can be an accident.  [/quote]

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