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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I am a teacher, and have had several students with similar behaviors (at the beginning of the school year, in non-COVID times). The primary focus is to contain the situation and make sure everyone is safe. When you have a child in your class that elopes, it should be a code red issue, and t[b]here should be a para dedicated to working with this child.[/b][/quote]

Pulling this out because I think it is very relevant that this child was a Kindergartner who appears to have not been in the system (Child Find or Head Start) until beginning K. Speaking from experience, it is next to impossible to get an additional 1 to 1 paraprofessional allocation after the start of the school year. It takes massive amounts of documentation, which probably explains the teacher videotaping the child's violent meltdown in the classroom, and a savvy administrator to get MCPS to cough up an extra allocation.

It appears that this child needed more help than a mainstream elementary school can provide. That's fine, and is not a slander against the child. He needs help. But the system is set up so that help is almost impossible to access mid-year. I fault the school for a lot of things here, but not the fact that they couldn't magic up an additional paraprofessional spot in the middle of the school year for a child who had only been in the public school system for four months at that point. [/quote]

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