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So you think schools shouldn’t deliver meals? And should not accept homeless kids or kids with behavioral problems?

I don’t think this is easy to understand if you are not actually in a classroom. The teacher who described the challenges above was talking about kids with extreme needs. There are kids who for whatever reason have no family support at home and they don’t function well in large classrooms. Yet they are placed there because the school district doesn’t know what to do. They threaten the teacher and other kids. They walk in and walk out whenever they want. Often they get high during lunch and are completely stoned in class. I have sympathy for them because they obviously have past and present trauma. But no one at my school knows how to handle them and they drift around causing havoc. Maybe y’all will just roll your eyes and don’t care but this is a reason why schools in ward 8 have so much teacher turnover. Deal and Wilson are not immune either.[/quote]

I think what some of us are saying is that the kids with the  extreme needs who cannot function in a socialized way in large classrooms need to be pulled out into smaller  classroom settings where they get intensive  intervention, and then sent to residential treatment programs if they cannot make it in the contained environment.  Because that is the trajectory that functional parents with dysfunctional teens pursue in order to try to get their kids back on track.  The answer is NOT to  leave the anti-social kids  floundering in the regular classroom and destroying the learning environment for everyone else.[/quote]

Teacher who agrees with you 100%. Know that part of the problem here is that you can’t just “send” a child off without parental permission. Parents who don’t return phone calls, blame the school, or call you a racist and threaten legal action don’t help. They’re basically say, “I have no interest in caring for my child but I’ll be damned if someone else is going to do it!”[/quote]

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