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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our lovely elementary school has seen an uptick in violence by kids in kindergarten.  A small number of students are doing most of it, but there seems to be a generally high level of violent amongst many of the kids.

Yes I know- these are 5/6 year olds but things are getting crazy and the principal seems to do nothing about it.

So far we have had kids knocked out cold, kids getting punched in the face/ hurt regularly.  One kindergarten teacher (1st year teacher) quit suddenly and today another teacher was hurt so badly when a kindergartener throw a water bottle at her she had to go to hospital with a bleeding wound.

The violence is traumatizing our kids.  I am worried more teachers will quit. All kids are behind in reading and math!!

Is anything we can do to pressure the principal to get help for the violent kids?  At what point do they get excluded or sent to another school which can handle them?

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This is 100% accurate and it is not the principal that needs to be pressured it’s central office. The principal is doing what she can but students with these kind of needs are being kept in what is absolutely the wrong placement and school staff are powerless to move them where they need to go.  My daughter’s K class has a child of a similar level of need/violence and the staff is doing everything they can to get them moved.  MCPS needs to have a way to expedite children with extreme needs instead of waiting through the standard lengthy process while everyone endures trauma.  They also need more discrete programs again in the county so that these students have somewhere to go where their needs can be addressed.[color=darkblue] [/color][/quote]

People need to stop letting principals off the hook.  It's their school.  Ultimately they are responsible and they need to get the ball rolling to get these kids more help.[/quote]

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