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RE: Disruptive MS students - kids who "do no harm" in parent's eyes

From: Kimberly Anne Herbert (kimberly)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 09:59:32 PST

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    Taping the child can have a great effect on the parent. I was subbing in a
    school with a very disruptive fifth grader. Her parents accused the teachers
    and students of picking on her. For a couple of days after taping started
    she was on good behavior, then she was out sick. When she came back, she
    walked into the classroom grabbed a classmate's chair knocking him out of
    it. She kicked the boy once, walked over and sat down in her chair. She was
    removed from the classroom. (I was subbing across the hall and watched both
    classes when the teacher took her to the office.) After viewing the tape and
    hearing her explanation (he had insulted her before she went home sick), the
    parents signed the papers placing the girl in the ED unit. The school
    arrange for counseling for her and her parents. She earned the right to be
    partially mainstreamed back into her 5th grade classroom within 6 weeks. At
    the end of term, she spent all day in 5th grade, though still assigned to
    the ED unit. One day a boy from her 5th grade class tried to provoke her,
    while waiting in front of school. She walked away, went around to the back
    of the school and knocked on the ED unit's door (they are in a separate
    building on campus) - She asked for a Time Out! Admitted she could not
    handle the pressure. The other kids in the class got all over the boy trying
    to bully and reported him to the 5th grade teacher. How is that for drastic
    improvement?

    Kimberly Herbert (kimberly)
    CAM Administrator
    San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and Children's Art Museum

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    From: Melissa Enderle [melissae]
    Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 9:45 PM
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk
    Subject: Disruptive MS students - kids who "do no harm" in parent's eyes

    I have a student who is Learning Disabled, but that isn't the problem for
    me. It's is defiant attitude and disruptive behavior. I've tried separating
    him from other students (in hopes that he would buckle down), giving him
    positive feedback when I catch him working (which isn't very often), trying
    sitting back by peers, various lessons and materials, keeping him in the
    room, calling the office for removal, and calling the mom. Unfortunately,
    the mom believes that the school is simply picking on her son and that the
    school should just lay off her sun. The mom wants him to go to a particular
    school, but that school (and most others) refuse him because of his
    disruptive behavior background.
       I can't seem to do anything that will reach this student. Whenever he is
    in the room, he disrupts and changes the entire atmosphere.
    Because of his Special Ed. status, he can't be suspended for more than a few
    days a year. I don't even know if that would be helpful anyway. I want to
    teach and do not feel that I should have to put up with disrespect from a
    student - or the potentially dangerous act of today when he threw a pencil
    almost hitting a student in the eye.
       What do you do with students who can do no harm in their parent's eyes?
    Are there some suggestions as to what might reach him? Valid consequences
    when he is out of control?

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