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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I left education and started a new job. I do my best to not spread negativity about the profession, but when I told my new coworkers it was immediately “is it true the kids are crazy?” And “you’re so brave”. The reputation about teaching is spreading so yeah it’s going to be hard to fill positions. After what happened in Newport News and now in Texas with the principal losing her eye a lot of people are very hesitant.[/quote]

This-I left teaching and my family and friends were like thank goodness you got out. I watched IA's get hurt and admin act annoyed-I had admin ask my IA's and myself what we wanted them to do as a child destroyed rooms and kicked and scratched/screamed for sometimes 30 mins straight. It's becoming unsafe-I can't speak for MS and HS but elementary schools are understaffed. And you might get a sub one day but in these conditions most aren't coming back. It's sad for the kids who are there and ready to learn. And honestly I wouldn't want to be admin because the truth is there is not much they can do....but I will tell you teachers do not get paid enough to deal with that level of chaos when they are still responsible for the safety and education of  many other students. So admin-take them out-make parents come get them but don't shrug and ask what you should do. It is a horrible working and learning environment-day to day survival is not good for teaching or learning.[/quote]

+100[/quote]

They need to send the violent kids with the issues to a special school that can meet their needs.[/quote]

The focus right now is the exact opposite. The LRE is the regular classroom in a regular school with very few exceptions. Schools are not supposed to remove students from the classroom or suspend them for behaviors either.
Every parent who sees this for what it really is should be filling out SR&R feedback survey that was sent out a few weeks ago. School districts are not listening to teachers. The problem will continue to get worse if parents don't say anything.[/quote]

Yes....SPED IEPs/laws are silencing the majority. Parents fight for Gen ed classrooms (LRE) no matter how unrealistic or disruptive it is to the others. Everyone says their hands are tied and we keep losing solid educators. LRE does not mean general education but no one s standing up for the all the other kids in the room. And before we go all ballistic about ADHD or LD that is not who I am talking about. I am talking about kids hurting other students, teachers-destroying rooms-that should not be happening in Gen ED every day. But it is.[/quote]

What is most tragic about this is that the Gen Ed environment is clearly NOT least restrictive for explosive students like this.  There is just TOO MUCH that can set them off at any given memory in the day.  I transferred from a school with a great CSS to a school where the principal believed that LRE always means Gen Ed, and I saw a kid suffer so much (and his class suffer along with) who could have thrived in a CSS classroom with 4-5 peers and maybe mainstreaming for one or two subjects a day.

Instead, every single day, they'll classroom had to be evacuated, sometimes multiple times a day.  But they child's parent vehemently opposed a CSS placement and the principal seemed to think it was some kind of failure to push that as truly the least restrictive environment for that child.  With more feedback, more opportunities to catch the child doing something right, less peer conflict, less distraction, less sensory overload from a big class and lots of bodies, this child would have been so much more free to engage and learn and experience success.[/quote]

Just wondering if the parent had knowledge about the classroom evacuations? Are you allowed to video them and show the parents? I would think that if the parent knew what the kid was doing then they would have felt differently. Also wondering if the parents complained about this kid?[/quote]

Countless parents complained about the child.  They hit the brick wall of admin saying they can't discuss other children (unless the child directly harmed theirs, and even then nothing happened).

The parent of the child was very aware of daily meltdowns and classroom evacuations.  All was blamed on staff for antagonizing child or not following de-escalation methods.  (The child would just ignore all possible paths to de-escalate...or all of the de-escalation options discussed in countless meetings with behavior intervention teachers would only escalate the child further.)

The parent was not open to any feedback about how this placement was hurting the child.  The parent's perspective was all about how other kids and staffers were hurting her completely innocent child and if everyone would only follow the plan, her child would be an angel.  [/quote]

I could have wrote this. Went through this exact situation. It was always the staff's fault-every day every episode was the schools fault.  Our admin did nothing to support or protect teachers and IA's. Three SPED teachers left that year.[/quote]

I always think about the Newport News teacher when this topic comes up. The child’s mom went on national news to try to say it was the teachers fault for not giving him attention, the AP refused to search the kid or listen to several warnings given by staff, and then the school district attempted to just give her workers comp. [/quote]

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