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[quote=Anonymous]In many organizations, leadership prioritizes lack of observable friction. They want conflict to go away, but that doesn’t always mean fixing root problems of the conflict.

In *some* cases, there are things adults in a school can do to de-escalate situations. There are also children with diagnosed disabilities that cause them to exhibit emotional disturbances at school. Various laws require those conditions to be accommodated in the least restrictive environment. (LRE can be difficult to define and take time to find.) The combination of conflict avoidance, adults needing to be more responsible than children, and the legal obligations of schools can lead to an internal culture of teacher blame. It’s not uncommon when a child acts out for a parent and/or administrator to ask the teacher, “What did you do to trigger him/her?” One of the most stressful parts of teaching is the way that so many at so many schools are asked to over-ride their personal boundaries and then accept blame when the lack of boundaries doesn’t go well.

In this culture of teacher blame and expectation that teachers will always bend to serve students’ needs and wants, calling 911 isn’t acceptable. It’s airing out the family’s dirty laundry in public. It endangers the administrators’ jobs and makes legal friction with the child’s family more likely. It also violates administrators’ feelings about appropriate chain of command. Barring immediate danger to other students, like a gun being openly brandished, calling 911 is too often a career-ending event.[/quote]

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