Posted on 12/11/2024 6:49:23 AM PST by CFW
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This will make your blood boil. The child fell and the school staff ignored his cries until finally calling his mother and saying he refused to get up from the floor. Video shows them just sitting around watching the poor child.
He had a broken femur and was in pain. No wonder he was crying!
We have total idiots teaching our kids.
Hey, in the union contract, it says that teachers don’t have to deal with medical emergencies. They have to call to get a broken leg specialist and then wait for him to show up to handle it.
Well,*that* family sure as hell just won the lottery!
I have to be honest. This kid should never have been in the public school. Children and adults who previously were institutionalized are being forced into the public were people are not equipped to deal with them.
Well, normally a child who falls down can get up or tell you what's wrong.
send them to special schools and stop making everyone else stop the world for your child.
Main streaming and trying to normalize these kids is like trying to shine a peeled ripe banana.
autism= get your kid into a special school and stop expecting the village to take care of your village idiot.
There really isnt enough there to know what really happened or how to feel about it.
No, just laying on the floor crying doesnt mean much. Ive worked with people with disabilities and this is a tool some of them use frequently. I once had someone flop on the ground and scream and cry and drag themselves around on the floor for almost a full 8 hours attempting mimic a back injury.
The reason?
They ran out of soda and they knew that the hospital staff would get them one when we got there.
Far too many. It’s time to abolish the public schools for good.
Oh yes we do. You think some of them are dumb but I bet you are still overestimating their intelligence. I know a teacher and each time we have a conversation I think “please don’t say something that makes me think you’re stupid.”
In this case the kid could well have died there; broken bones can lead to internal bleeding, shock etc.
I was run over by a drunk driver, broke a lot of bones and went into shock. Had the fire department not been there I would have died.
This kid was lucky he even survived.
This is the truth. Some, may take offense at the blunt nature of your message, but that doesn’t change what is.
Enrolling a (severely) mentally disabled, deaf or mute child in regular public school is sometimes done by a parent who is not ready or willing to admit that there child needs help. Such kids are not likely to thrive unless they get the right kind of attention and in the right kind of environment.
> This kid should never have been in the public school. <
Retired teacher here. Yes, there are lazy and disinterested teachers. But what you said plays a big part.
Many states have loosened the guidelines way too much. That allows parents who can’t come to grips with their child’s limitations to demand mainstreaming. That’s tough on the teachers, and very unfair to the kid.
If the kid, in fact, had a broken leg, I, as a retired teacher, would be very reluctant to even touch him, an untrained person moving someone with a broken leg might well make things worse.
An autistic kid in school is going to have an I.E.P. (Individualized Education Program) which means only specialized staff may even touch him if he needs to be restrained. I remember one autistic kid who would occasionally stand on his desk and throw his books at the teacher. All she could do is duck and call for the teachers’ assistant assigned to him to actually restrain him and remove him form class.
Why is a kid like that even in a regular classroom? Several Federal laws require it. Every I.E.P. student must be educated in the ‘least restrictive environment possible’ and parents have the right to sue the district if it isn’t ‘least restrictive’. So little Bob who acts out is going to be next to the normal kids most of the school day. As a parent of a normal kid, you have no right to object.
Now, as to why the school didn’t call for an ambulance, that is the sort of thing that a teacher would not be allowed to do. Only a nurse or administrator could call for outside help.
Where was the school nurse? Do schools no longer have one? I was taught in (industrial-ish) First Aid that a broken femur is much more painful when the muscles pull it out of alignment, but that pulling on the foot and maintaining that traction would reduce the pain greatly.
We put my 3 year old non-verbal daughter in a special needs preschool in our local school district (over 20 years ago), and they forgot her outside. A janitor found her
She never went back. I don’t know what really happened, but it was scary.
“I have to be honest. This kid should never have been in the public school. Children and adults who previously were institutionalized are being forced into the public were people are not equipped to deal with them.”
The best response. It isn’t fair to the teachers, the students, nor this student. This approach was mandated by no good virtue signalers.
Speaking as a disabled person spent most of my education in a special ed school; I completely agree that special needs children should be put in regular schools right off the bat. This mainstreaming immediately is the dumbest thing ever invented!
I'm more than a little curious as to the CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to pass such laws.
We had a kid at the after-school program where I worked who fell and hit his head hard on the cement sidewalk. He was acting kinda funny so I called on a teacher who is a first responder, asking her to evaluate him after it seemed like he wasn’t seeing straight. Both she and the “cool” aide were very disgusted with me for taking it seriously. Just tell him to get up and get over it. And in that particular instance he eventually started acting more normally. Who knows whether he had a concussion but when the mom came to pick him up they let her know what had happened so she could decide whether to have him medically evaluated. She didn’t.
So I guess what I’m saying is that there is pressure against even people who want things to be treated seriously to just let things slide.
Medical things, that is. When it comes to political correctness, no holds are barred to make sure the kids’ “condition” is what they want it to be.
ITA agree with everything you said.
yes I agree. Mainstreaming was a baaad idea.
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