I know a woman who is a Special Ed teacher. She has told me what she has to do to deal with some of these kids. She has a lot more patience that I would have. There is a lot of rules, red tape and paper work for each kid.
My honest opinion? These kids should have never have been mainstreamed. If you are old enough to remember they had special schools for kids like this guy. Schools where the kids lived year round.
They did away with those places now we have this. Some how this is better? A teacher attacked, kid going to jail and this is better? Back in the day at those special schools had Orderlies that if he, or other kids got violent those grown ass men the size of NFL linebackers would have hauled their ass to a padded cell till they calmed down. Again, some how that was bad and this is better?
No are schools have not improved, only become more cesspools.
I used to be married to a Special Ed teacher. I know zll about it.
I was a public school teacher for 33 years - some of these psychotic, out of control kids are certainly mainstreamed.
The school system wants them mainstreamed b/c each special ed student costs the district approximately three times what a “regular” student costs - AND, there is a lot of litigation from special ed students and their families. I attended a number of IEP meetings with either a lawyer (pro bono, I’m sure) or an “advocate” in attendance to intimate school authorities.
My dear friend, a special ed teacher in a specific special ed school for “severely mentally disturbed/disabled” (SED) told me what he used to see in locked-up psychiatric wards (where he taught for a while, kids were basically in cages while he “taught”) - is now in his school, what was in his school is now mainstreamed in “regular” classrooms.