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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please go talk to the teacher.  
Here's the reality though.  My guess is the teacher is taking "data" on the disruptive kid because no evaluation can happen for months or even years until several rounds of "RTI" or "MTSS" has been put in place.  It doesn't matter how many times the teacher has to evacuate the room or whatever.  Most schools are getting push back because they are referring too many kids to sped and one way to reduce the referrals is to make the interventions so consuming for the teacher, she essentially just waits the kid out til the end of the year.  (Example, kid throws things in the room.  Sped team meets with teacher.  Tells her to take data on the incident, what precedes and follows it to find out why it is happening.  6 weeks pass.  Now there's data on the why.  Then the sped team suggests, "why don't you try a chart with stickers?"  Teacher has to implement that for 6 weeks.  Oh and by the way, this is all while meeting every other need in the classroom, teaching content, and dealing with the out of control kid.  6 weeks later, problem is not solved.  "Have you tried moving his seat near you?" (Omg, no, that never occurred to me!  Thank you for your wisdom because this is my first rodeo!)  
And on and on and on and on.

[b]However, when OTHER parents complain, sometimes this speeds up the process.  The school probably won't listen to anything the teacher says.  [/b]

Good luck.  I'm sorry this is happening to your daughter.  I'm always very worried about how one or two kids can affect every single other child in the room in major and negative ways.  [/quote]

This.  As a school administrator myself, I encourage you to talk to your daughter's teacher and also her principal.  School divisions respond to squeaky wheels.  Make your wheels squeak LOUD.  Other parents may decide to do the same thing.

I want to say this gently but also sternly:  please do not gossip about this child to other parents or make idle conversation about the child or speculate.  If you're asked, you can say that you did speak to the principal because your daughter has had some upsetting days recently and you wanted to get more information and discuss it but do NOT verbally attack this other child.  You do that, and I will never hear what you're saying.  Children aren't born bad and they usually aren't bad on purpose.  The other child needs as much love as yours does.  So, sure, stick up for your daughter's right to be in a calm and stress-free, happy environment but don't pin the tail on the other kid.  That isn't fair.[/quote]

OP here, thank you, good to have an administrator's perspective in addition to the teachers that have posted.

I want to make this clear - I am concerned about how to help MY child. I don't want anything bad or negative to happen to this other child and I have not and will not talk about them to other parents. My focus is on figuring out the best way to help my child because clearly this change has had an impact on her.[/quote]

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