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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for. [/quote]
When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?[/quote]

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.[/quote]

That long article about how MCPS is failing our special needs kids did not at all have the perspective that there are some parenting fails that are greatly contributing to the behavior issues. And yes I can confirm that this happens in the ES where I work. Parents don’t want to deal with their own kid. [/quote]

Here’s an idea.  Do the paperwork and push for a special placement and more help.  I wouldn’t get my kid either.  Don’t have a kid like that but have a kid with sn and we’ve been refused an iep or any help.  [/quote]

Should teachers be assaulted? If a child is violent in the classroom, why wouldn’t you come to get him? [/quote]

Many of these families beg for help and aren't getting it.  If I begged for help and it was denied, at some point no.  I tried to get an IEP this year.  Long documented SN.  I was refused even an evaluation.  I reached out the the AP and she said she would help and made a dumb comment why.  At some point, schools/admin need to step up and help these kids and teachers or find new jobs.[/quote]

You responded to a question about classroom violence. A mentality unstable raging child is not a learning problem. It’s a medical problem.

Schools are staffed by teachers, not physicians. If your child is violently raging, he needs a medical facility, not a classroom with a teacher.

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Mental health is medical but it’s up to the school to provide an appropriate education.   At some point if they keep sending the kid home the kid does not get an education and they need to figure it out. [/quote]

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