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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to get the principal to step in and come up with an intermediary solution while a different placement is being worked on. This is not good for your kid to be constantly not meeting expectations. There are all sorts of solutions. They can send an extra person into the classroom to help manage things, like a student teacher or the school psychologist or assistant principal. They can make your child principal for the day, and have them shadow the principal, to give them a break from the classroom environment, which sounds to be stressful. Or gym teacher for the day. They can pull your child out of the classroom if there is a particular time of day or triggering event that is difficult, perhaps having the school psychologist spend one on one time with them. They can brainstorm and come up with new and better figits, if that’s something that may be useful. These are all things that our public school did when DC was having behavioral problems in elementary school.[/quote]

It depends on what you mean by misbehaves. If your child has a BIP seems like most incidents are disruptive somehow. Can you elaborate? Are you seeking a new placement? 
These are good stop gap measures but first you need to figure out yourself what you think of the current placement and what your goals are here. Your goals cannot be to just stop the emails because obviously there's stuff going on that the teacher feels compelled to write about. Either the teacher needs help, your child needs help or your child needs a new placement.[/quote]

OP here. The reported behaviors are:

-used glue stick as chapstick and put it all over his face
-ate play doh
-went into girls bathroom 
-throwing paper towels on the ground
-scribbling on desk
-drawing on self
-taking another child’s food and/or water bottle 
-drinking the teacher’s coffee
-repeatedly touching the classroom TV
-refusing to sit down at his desk or join circle time 
-tearing his papers instead of turning them in or doing them
-putting hand soap in his water bottle and shaking it in order to create bubbles
-opening and closing the window in the classroom
-wanting to play with blocks instead of doing the classroom work

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First of all, solidarity and good vibes to you, OP. Second, these behaviors fall into either sensory seeking or attention seeking. You probably have sensory diet written into the IEP and BIP.  In addition to documenting all of these in a way PPs suggested (frequently, and via email), I would send a specialist for observation every couple of weeks. Can be one of his therapists or educational advocate. You need a very detailed 3rd party report on what happens in school, and more than one, so they can't say it was just a "day off" for the child (which is what I was literally told). The idea is to document that IEP/BIP is not being implemented.  I hope you can escalate once you have sufficient documentation to either get a different placement or wrestle an aide from the school district.  Your child is not aggressive on un-educatable, he just needs extra attention and sensory needs met throughout the school day.

Before any teacher jumps in to say how hard it is to have 26 kids in K and implement 6-8 IEPs all by a single teacher with no help - yes it is, but ignoring the child is not an option, no matter what your admin tells you about resources shortages. Schools get additional (and not small) funding for every IEP, what they do with that funding is the question to your admin.[/quote]

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