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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  I can’t speak to every single detail mentioned but broadly speaking this is true.  I just heard the water bottle story today from a neighbor.[/quote]

Did they explain how someone could get significantly injured from a water bottle? Because that's the main thing that doesn't seem plausible. [/quote]

Of course it’s plausible.  Those metal water bottles will absolutely cause a major injury if used as a weapon.  [/quote]

Not when you're talking about a kindergartner. There are important details being left out here, and it isn't clear why.[/quote]

It can absolutely happen with a kindergartener. I work at a different school (Germantown) and have been hit, bit, kicked, slapped (first time ever in my career) and have had things thrown at me by K students who should have been placed in a different environment. Many times these incidents happened as I was trying to prevent the student from hurting another classmate. Each incident was met with genuine concern by admin but nothing could be done to remove the student in question or speed up the process of getting an IEP. It also didn’t matter how many times I documented each incident or focused on “building relationships,” it comes down to the fact that some students need more support than a gen Ed teacher is able to offer. I love teaching but this is my last year with MCPS. It used to be that we would occasionally have one student who was out of control, but now that is the norm for almost every class at my school, with most classes having more than one student who displays these behaviors. I usually leave school at least three out of five days in a completely dysregulated state myself because I’ve spent my energy constantly co-regulating all day with students (and these are not the students I was speaking of earlier that are dangerously violent).[/quote]

Yep, same.  I have to stay a few more years, and I plan to move to an older grade in hopes that the most severe kids will have been outplaced by that time.  From what I've seen, it takes 1-2 years of room evacuations, serious physical aggression, and other terribly disruptive behaviors to finally get a kid placed appropriately.  I'm looking for a 2nd or 3rd grade placement or I'll do ESL.  
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