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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the poster just above.  To add, the problem isn't that we don't have the guts to leave.  The problem is too many seriously disturbed kids in classrooms, full stop.  [/quote]

You can’t halt the supply of kids. They have a legal right to attend. You can NOT be the person who is overwhelmed by the disturbed kids who arrive. You have a legal right to quit your position and seek employment somewhere else. [/quote]

New poster.  I'm a special education coordinator.  Children who assault other children or staff do not have the right to do so.  Legally they do not.  School staff and students have the right to safety.  Any child who is in an educational setting where they are harming others needs a different placement as long as the appropriate steps have been followed (ie, FBA, BIP) and if they have an IEP, the IEP has been met.  If after all those things, the student is still harming others, staff members have a right to call a meeting and request either other steps to be put in place or to revisit placement.

To the OP: I recommend calling a meeting.  Put it in writing that you are afraid for your safety or the safety of your students (and if a 100 pound student is throwing things around the room, you should be afraid, you or a student could be injured).  That alone should get some traction.  If your principal or sped coordinator won't help, try the superintendent.  I see you've already done that though.  Go to the school board.  If that doesn't work, go to the state.  I'm serious.  Either the school needs to provide more support or the district needs to help the child find an alternate setting such as an ED/BD room or a cross cat room or something.  Good luck to you.  [/quote]

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