“But, there appears to be two special needs aides with the kid and I am mystified why they didn’t do anything to control the kid. By law, they can restrain a kid who is potentially violent.”
I did notice them. One only pulled his hand down but did nothing to keep the child inline. I’m wondering why this is.
“Before No Child Left Behind, this kid would have not been mainstreamed in a regular school. Our special ed department had their own dining hours and for extreme cases, they had their own kitchen facilities”
when I was in school we had no children like this. Kids this violent would not have been allowed and parents would have been very upset to have them in the classroom. For the life of my I can’t understand why parents are not upset now. I can only imagine it’s that if this kid attacks their child they can always sue the school and win the ghetto lottery.
I agree this never should have been allowed. All this did is keep normal kids from learning by taking away from their valuable class time.
1) Social pressure by the media and special interest groups
2) Fear of legal action
It is pitiful to see that kids like this, representing maybe 2% of the student population get 100% of the attention 95% of the time.
The root cause is that they get no control at home and don't act any differently when in public.