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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]Wow that sounds pretty bad.

When first seeing the title, I was willing to get the paraeducator the benefit of the doubt.  Where something might've been incidental contact and blown out of proportion.  And not to offend anyone but being identified as Special Ed can be a very wide spectrum and for a variety of reasons.

But to be actually be able to kick a kid in the chest seems to be pretty deliberate.[/quote]

No injury reported.

My guess is the para was sitting in a chair and she pushed the kid away with her foot when he grabbed her drink ([b]which she absolutely should not have had in the classroom[/b]).

This is why you shouldn't bring in minimum wage untrained people  off the street to care for disabled students. 
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Why not?[/quote]

It was soda. [/quote]

Are teachers prohibited from having soda?[/quote]

No, but they obviously shouldn't have it in the classroom in front of students. Come on.[/quote]

That isn’t reasonable.

Teachers can have soda in front of students. Some teachers have coffee or tea. Even energy drinks. This is ok. [/quote]

This. Parents can be so unreasonable. With young students, she should have put her soda out of reach of the kids. No excuse for kicking a kid. Although I’m guessing she put her leg out to stop the kid and kicked him accidentally but even that is inexcusable. You need to stop kid with your hands not with your feet [/quote]

This was an elementary school classroom. Soda was probably prohibited in the cafeteria, much less the classrooms themselves. Having soda out in class was obviously going to be a trigger for behaviors.

This was terrible judgement on the paraeducator's part. The kick (which I also suspect was more of a blocking move rather than a kick) was a split-second decision. Yes, an awful mistake, but I'm more inclined to be forgiving of the split-second mistake here than  the conscious decision to introduce an unnecessary trigger into the classroom.[/quote]

A split second decision that was done with enough force that caused a vulnerable child to fall to the ground. The woman yelled no for crying out loud. She had time to think through this. Would you be so forgiving if this happened to your child?[/quote]

PP. In fact, I've had to bring my kids to the the ER or urgent care on three occasions after incidents involving the kids and staff, although all occurred outside of MCPS.

In two cases, my son with high support needs was in a self-contained program with staff much better trained than MCPS paraeducators. I was and am confident they did their best to ensure the safety of both my child and the staff, but sometimes incidents and injuries cannot be avoided.

In the other case, my other son with lower support needs was in a mainstream setting that I knew lacked staff with training for handling kids with ASD. Both I and the school were aware of the associated risks and chose to accept them. I suspect this incident could have been avoided had it occurred in a more structure setting with SPED staff, but I didn't want that for my child. I think they did their best in the situation and we worked together following the incident to try to reduce the chance something similar would happen  again.

The immediate outcome doesn't affect my willingness to forgive as much as the lead-up and response.[/quote]

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