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To: cloudmountain

The boy should not have been in a regular school. He belongs somewhere to get the help he needs.


I’ve dealt with kids like this in the school where I taught. They are hostile, quick to anger and are willing to try and hurt adults who cross them. When they are very small, they are easily restrained by teachers who have special training, but as they get bigger and older, they become much harder to control.

‘Regular schools’ are required to take them. There is no somewhere else for them. And schools are required to have kids like him in the regular classrooms as much as possible. Which means that at least 50% of your kid’s teachers effort and attention are focused on that one kid. If the kid is really crazy, he might have a full-time aid assigned to him. But he’ll still be in you kid’s classroom.

This is not the school’s decision, this is the law as it now exists. Only the most extraordinary behavior might result in expulsion and even then, your school district will have to pay for his ‘education’. And if his misbehavior can be linked to his official handicap, say Oppositional Defiance Disorder, he can’t be expelled.


18 posted on 08/11/2020 9:31:31 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
I’ve dealt with kids like this in the school where I taught. They are hostile, quick to anger and are willing to try and hurt adults who cross them. When they are very small, they are easily restrained by teachers who have special training, but as they get bigger and older, they become much harder to control. ‘Regular schools’ are required to take them. There is no somewhere else for them. And schools are required to have kids like him in the regular classrooms as much as possible. Which means that at least 50% of your kid’s teachers effort and attention are focused on that one kid. If the kid is really crazy, he might have a full-time aid assigned to him. But he’ll still be in you kid’s classroom.
This is not the school’s decision, this is the law as it now exists. Only the most extraordinary behavior might result in expulsion and even then, your school district will have to pay for his ‘education’. And if his misbehavior can be linked to his official handicap, say Oppositional Defiance Disorder, he can’t be expelled.

States make their own laws regarding education.
Maybe it's time you moved or enlarged the "ignore" part of the brain.

25 posted on 08/11/2020 9:53:54 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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