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With typical through special needs kids, pushing and shoving is within the range of normal acting out behavior for a third grader. I would not consider that to be violent and I am sure most others would not either, absent violent intent.
Biting anyone as a child as old as OPs kid is indeed violent behavior, whether the kid is typical or special ed. It is far outol of the range for a behavior for a kid of that age, even if he is special needs.  If he were a biting two or even three year old preschooler or toddler it would be very different. But he is a third grader (8-9 years old) and biting from that age group is a violent behavior.[/quote]

I would agree with most of this but not the part about the biting necessarily being "violent." It's definitely out of the range of normal for this age but humans of all ages do this as an instinctive protective mechanism. It isn't like he's going around biting kids for no reason. If you felt you were physically attacked by someone and felt threatened even you might bite back. No one is calling victims of attacks who bite their attackers violent. From the perspective of a young child with ADHD, ASD, OT issues, speech issues, anxiety and who knows what else he might have felt like this push was an attack.[/quote]

But, also consider the fact that when OP's child was informed that he was being suspended and missing a desired activity, he kicked his paraeducator.  There's a lot going on and I hope things work out well for OP and her family.[/quote]

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