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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. We have students like this at my school every few years. Usually the parent is/was an addict and the child is living in chaos. Sometimes it is a very permissive parent who lets their kids do whatever they want. I’ve had years where it took months to get a kid tested for an IEP. I can’t just request a meeting and have it happen. I have to document months of behaviors before anything happens. Now, if the parent requests the meeting, it will occur within 30 days.

As for someone who mentioned that an aid should’ve stayed with this child on a day the parent didn’t come to school, you obviously don’t understand the staffing shortages in public schools. On any given day, we have between 5-18 staff members out of the building (sick, personal day, jury duty, etc). Every day our admin scrambles to find people to cover for classroom teachers. There is nobody to cover for a parent as a one-on-one. [/quote]

I’m the pP and I’m very aware of the shortages.  (And I assume that’s why they used the parent as the shadow for so long.). But this seems like such an extreme case they never should have stopped the parent shadow unless they had some warm body to use as a transition.  Maybe it should have been the AP who has now resigned.  At our school the AP does fill in for things like this.  [/quote]

Now it seems like it’s really an extreme case. But before he shot the teacher, it’s not clear that is was. I mean I know he was a tough kid. But now sure it was worse than other really tough cases. [/quote]

Other articles have said he was suspended last year for choking his kindergarten teacher. He has just gotten back from a 1 day suspension when this happened for cussing and threatening his peers. He was running around the playground with his belt threatening to beat kids and had broken his teacher’s phone. He was definitely a known severe issue. [/quote]

+1 If that kind of behavior is tolerated at any school without providing serious supportive resources, then there is a problematic administrative team at that school and/or school system,[/quote]
The school never properly set up a threat assessment for this kid or any other kid.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/motherjones/status/1622413032428081153?s=61&t=4HF5Yt8Q3rzzqEH0ntHvAg[/twitter][/quote]

Interesting (and very sad to hear) Mother Jones article -- thanks![/quote]

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