NoWomanNoCry
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Jun 25, 2014 21:53:42 GMT
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Aug 30, 2014 17:39:13 GMT
When I was in 2nd grade there was a kid who was always beating up our teacher...I was young but I will never forget it. I remember the school wanting to remove the child and the parents walked into classroom flipping out saying the kid shouldn't be isolated (back then I don't think security was as stricked because other parents would always walk in to class to pick kids up) anyways the boy was allowed to stay. One day me and some girls were playing at our Center and this kid out of no where started freaking out grabbed scissors from the teachers deck and a pencil ran after me and stabbed me in the back with both. The scissors didnt go straight in they cut downward on my back if that makes sense. The pencil went inside and the lead actually broke off in my back. Had to be taken to Dr. I have a scar from the pencil still. I remember the teacher grabbing him and forcefully holding him down and telling for the kids to get the other teachers in their room. The parents had the nerve to blame the teacher saying she shouldn't have those kind of scissors on her desk (the heavy metal ones). I found this out years later when I went back to visit this teacher...she said the parents tried getting her fired! Lol crazy!
The kid wasn't in my class anymore I'm not sure where he went. I feel like of parents know their child is like this then they would be held responsible legally if something happens. I also get the fact some may not want to isolate the child from others but sometimes that needs to happen!
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Post by heartcat on Aug 31, 2014 9:54:28 GMT
I had a busy day yesterday and didn't get back to this thread til now. I have not heard of Jani Schofield and googled her and read a couple of different pages. I cannot imagine what that poor child...and her family...have had to go through over the years. I had not realized that mental illness could present in such a young child. It is heartbreaking. I do not know the circumstances of the sleepover. Whether it was an actual social thing for the children, or a child care thing, or what the situation was. I did not ask. I was just stunned by hearing what had happened. NoWomanNoCry, that is terrible and must have been so scary for you! I hope that they can determine what might have motivated this little boy to do something like this, and get him some help of some kind. Perhaps early intervention might make a difference. It is so upsetting and unsettling to think a child would be capable of something like this. So sad for all involved and affected. ![:sad:](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by anonrefugee on Aug 31, 2014 12:19:57 GMT
NoWomanNoCry, that is awful. I can't imagine how scared you were.
I could type too long a post about the lengths parents went to keep a dangerous terror at our school, and the insults and threats they hurled at everyone. It never was resolved, we were his third elementary school in the district, and he transferred again. Hopefully to a special school, but they were renters and had flexibility to move to another district.
I don't understand people who'd rather let their kid live this way instead of be treated.
I'm sorry you carry those memories.
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Aug 31, 2014 12:38:04 GMT
How scary for everyone involved. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/mYSUyHtG9Jrcmm_ydVcK.jpg)
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Post by my.unquiet.mind on Aug 31, 2014 12:57:57 GMT
When I taught special education, I've had to be trained in how to properly restrain an out of control child. There were a few other teachers and staff in the school who were also trained. When a child would become violent or out of control, the team would be called over the school's intercom system and told where in the school the incident was taking place.
The year before I stopped teaching in order to stay at home, there was a kindergartener that had severe behavioral issues. There were days that the team would be called 3 or 4 times, just for this one child. It was horrible and it took usually took quite awhile to calm him down enough that he wouldn't be a danger to himself or others.
It was a difficult year for everyone in the building. We were constantly being interrupted by calls over the intercom saying that the team's help was needed. As I'm sure most of you know, once a kid (or group of kids) gets distracted or off-track, it can be next to impossible to get them to calm back down and back to work. It was very frustrating and went on the entire year. The boy still attends school here, but his behavior as improved significantly, thank goodness!
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Post by pierkiss on Aug 31, 2014 13:09:12 GMT
What a sad story. I hope both kids will be ok in the future. I came here to post about my job and what I've seen, but Merge beat me to it, so I'll just quote her. That is terrible. We have a couple of kids in the behavior support class at our school who are very violent and seem to be set off by anything and nothing. And they're very strong. Our entire admin team plus the PE teacher and some others all had to be trained to do safe restraints because it takes two adults to restrain these children - and they are six and seven years old. So yeah, I can imagine them hurting a playmate at three. It's really very sad. Yep, I used to work with kiddos like this. I remember there was one in particular when I 1st started working that had physically attacked a couple of kids at school. After that he was moved to the EBD unit, but would sometimes be transitioning in the halls with the other students when they were transitioning as well. This kid would pick on this one little girl, and whisper things like, "I'm going to come to your house, murder your sister in front of you and then rape you", etc. This poor girl was absolutely terrified to come to school. It was heartbreaking. I've only had 2 clients who have ever seriously freaked me out, and that was one of them.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 31, 2014 14:21:00 GMT
What a sad story. I hope both kids will be ok in the future. I came here to post about my job and what I've seen, but Merge beat me to it, so I'll just quote her. That is terrible. We have a couple of kids in the behavior support class at our school who are very violent and seem to be set off by anything and nothing. And they're very strong. Our entire admin team plus the PE teacher and some others all had to be trained to do safe restraints because it takes two adults to restrain these children - and they are six and seven years old. So yeah, I can imagine them hurting a playmate at three. It's really very sad. Yep, I used to work with kiddos like this. I remember there was one in particular when I 1st started working that had physically attacked a couple of kids at school. After that he was moved to the EBD unit, but would sometimes be transitioning in the halls with the other students when they were transitioning as well. This kid would pick on this one little girl, and whisper things like, "I'm going to come to your house, murder your sister in front of you and then rape you", etc. This poor girl was absolutely terrified to come to school. It was heartbreaking. I've only had 2 clients who have ever seriously freaked me out, and that was one of them. And situations like these make me question the US education system's bias for the exceptional children at the expense of the "norm." If this were an adult making such threats, he would be prosecuted and removed. But because they're kids and 'everyone is entitled to a free, public education', this girl and, I'm sure, the rest of the class have to suffer. It just shouldn't happen. Institutionalization of these kids seems too harsh, yet how do we convince ourselves that traumatizing other children is okay as long as this one terror gets his education? Why do his rights to an education trump the rights of all the other children to a safe environment?
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