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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the alternative schools have been closed.[/quote]

This.
[b]The programs were shut down last year[/b] and now teachers are being hit and bitten weekly. The children that needed the specialized programs are back in regular classrooms and with out needed supports.

MCPS cut the program so they could waste $168 million on a failed electric bus scheme.[/quote]

No, this happened more than a decade ago.[/quote]

LOL Nice try. But it just happened again last year. The gift that keeps on giving. A Board of Education that would rather cut a program for children in need of specialized support than read a contract brought to them by criminals.
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The Mark Twain School was shut down more than a decade ago. I don't know what you are referring to.[/quote]

+1 The SESES programs also still exist, as do other more restrictive placements. It sounds like OP's kid is still in elementary though, so Mark Twain would not have been an option.

Honestly, it's HARD to get a restrictive placement for a little kid, and that's for good reason. Sometimes getting a handle on the behavior is a matter of understanding triggers, or a matter of understand what in the child's life is causing them to act out. Taking a kid out of the mainstream classroom is meant to be a multi-step process with several interventions tried first. OP - I'm sorry your child is witnessing this, and that they presumably find it upsetting, but you don't have any way of knowing what's going on or where the child/parent/school are in the process of assessment and attempts to remediate the situation before moving the child into a self-contained classroom.[/quote]

This is what is so frustrating. It is condescending to say that OP's child "presumably finds it upsetting". No presumably means likely but not really known for certain. OP wrote "the kids are scared and the teacher has also expressed fear". It is certain it is upsetting. And it doesn't matter what is going on with the child/the child's parents/attempts at remediation. ALL students deserve to be safe at school. It used to be kids like this were physically removed from the classroom. Now kids have learned nothing happens to them. [/quote]

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