This teacher needs to be fired. Her proper course of action would have been to take Alex to the principal’s office and then lock the classroom door.
Clearly, there needs to be separate classrooms (and maybe separate buildings) for kids who are constant distractions and who are incapable of functioning in a normal group setting. It is not fair to the rest of the kids to have to be subjected to kids who cannot control themselves.
Kids like Alex need to be warehoused together and supervised by people who can deal with them. Mental health professionals can then determine if there is hope for a return to a normal school setting for these kids and if so, develop the appropriate program. Those kids who cannot be normalized should remain in the holding pen and given whatever meds they need and whatever instruction they can handle, sort of like a typical inner-city school. As long as the hours are the same as they are for the regular school, the parents probably won’t care.
“Kids like Alex need to be warehoused together and supervised by people who can deal with them.”
Nope. We’ve tried that already. It is VERY ineffective. What we’re doing now may not be good, but it is at least better.