Normally there IS no striking out by the kids because they were stopped. The once or twice it happened, yes the cops were called as it's called 'assault'. I didn't have to yell, I just had to act like they didn't know what to expect out of me. When a 150 lb 7th grader holds a chair over another kid's head ready to crash it down, you act on it, hopefully without tackling the kid to the floor. (In that particular case, he put the chair down and THEN was dealt with by admin.)
Putting cuffs on a 6 year old and 'arresting' her is ludicrous. And if these teachers and admins had half the training they SHOULD have had to deal with special ed kids, it may not have gotten to that point. There's too much fear that lawsuits would transpire, too much catering to the 'esteem' of these kids instead of working on controlling a situation before it becomes a 'situation'.
As many admins and teachers that care and plunge forward, there's matching admins and teachers that just see dollar signs and moving their school up the standard list to make themselves look good. Then the ones that DO care get burned out, put out and discouraged. I don't count out the parents here either. Home life has everything to do with school life in terms of respect, proper/improper behavior and getting such children the help they need without depending on a school system to do the work parents SHOULD be doing in the first place. I feel so bad for these kids; they want the discipline, they respect it when given in an authorative way because ultimately, it shows them they ARE worth the time and effort. And when they feel they're worth it, they respond in kind.
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