Jack Kirkpatrick: Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
Regards,
I don't care where they put them as long as there are bars on the windows and locks on the doors. They should not be in a regular school. But as to your she knew what she signed up for attitude... really? She signed up to work with children. This fellow is physically an adult, a huge one. With criminal tendencies. Personally, I can't just shrug her injuries off with hey, she signed up for it.
Do not twist what I wrote. I didn't "shrug her injuries off," either. I wrote that she's a paraprofessional who agreed to work with special ed students, and sometimes these students hurt the staff members.
In other words, she's not a teacher working with typical students. Special ed programs and group homes are begging for paraprofessionals. They'll take almost anyone for that job, but it carries a risk. I've been desperate for work at times, yet I've never taken such a job because I know the risk.
The other two special ed students were hardly punished when they attacked staff members in this same school system. So, don't be surprised if this student ends up with probation, too, because he's a special ed student.
"I don't care where they put them as long as there are bars on the windows and locks on the doors. They should not be in a regular school."
Guess who else didn't want this student in the school system: HIS PARENTS.
As this student's mother explained, she and her husband placed Brendan into "long-term hospitalization," but the insurance "forced his discharge." So, they were forced to look for other options, and they found an intensive behavioral group home called ECHO.
His mother wrote:
From the beginning of his time at ECHO, I expressed my reservations about Brendan being placed in the public school system. I was told by ECHO that Brendan had to attend a public school because the Agency for Persons with Disabilities only covered day programs for clients who had graduated high school or turned 22. I was assured by the group home that they place all their clients in the public schools and that a crisis team was only ten minutes away.
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Jack Kirkpatrick: Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
Regards,