As both a parent and a future teacher, I am concerned with the inclusion of children with violent tendencies. Is there a justifiable point to removing a child permamently who displays violence or does the entire classroom forefit personal safety to allow the child to remain?
Violent Behavior
[quote=”Rover”]Our state law specifies that a child may be removed if he is disrupting the education of others. Certainly if children are on alert in fear of the next “attack” their education is being disrupted. It took us an entire year to get one 4th grader placed in an ED classroom- partly due to the administration who just didn’t get the seriousness of the situation. Perhaps if more parents had called to complain, or pressed charges when their child was hurt, it would have encouraged the admin. to deal with it quickly. A child can be removed from school and placed on homebound instruction if he poses a threat to others until a full evaluation can be completed and an IEP developed.[/quote][quote][/quote]I have a spec.ed. student who wipes the scum off her teeth on other children and throws objects at other children. She was placed in my room for 1/2 an hour in the morning, lunch, 45 minutes after lunch, and 30 minutes at the end of the day. She also disrupts the class so I can’t teach. She is only in my room for socialization. I also have a downs syndrome student , 8
ld students mainstreamed for all subjects, and an ADHD student. I am trying to teach 5th grade. I was given no advance warning about any of these changes last year. I have had no time to prepare or any training for inclusion. A spec ed teacher will be working with me 2 hours a day. We are suppose to plan together on my 25 minute plannning/copy/restroom break/parent conference/post attendance/turn in money time etc… . I have been told there isn’t anything I can do from the spec. ed. teachers.
Does Alabama have laws pertaining to violent behavior?
Re: Safety in the Inclusion Classroom
DOn’t know about Alabama’s laws, but you might just start the year with a letter of concern to your department head, head of sped, & principal — maybe even the superintendent. And… maybe even with a return receipt. That way if a parent decides to take things into his/her own hands and sue, you have documentation that this is not the setting you consider educational; and this should be alluded to in said letter, because fear of that is the kind of hting that *might* just make more reasonable things happen.
This is one of those situations where parents can have more influence than teachers.
Our state law specifies that a child may be removed if he is disrupting the education of others. Certainly if children are on alert in fear of the next “attack” their education is being disrupted. It took us an entire year to get one 4th grader placed in an ED classroom- partly due to the administration who just didn’t get the seriousness of the situation. Perhaps if more parents had called to complain, or pressed charges when their child was hurt, it would have encouraged the admin. to deal with it quickly. A child can be removed from school and placed on homebound instruction if he poses a threat to others until a full evaluation can be completed and an IEP developed.