quote:
She has an IEP - individualized education plan. It likely lists that her disability is oppositional defiance (this is case worker speak for “piece of shite”).

i worked in schools for a while and this weekend I ran into an old friend that has been a HS counselor for 20+ years who just turned in her 2 weeks.

hadn't seen each other in years and she told me how bad it was now and that "oppositional defiance" made her unable to do her job.

They had a murder (with a knife) on a kid that should have been expelled years ago this last year.

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by the808bass

The Lou

Member since Oct 2012

111702 posts

Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:34 am to 3nOut

quote:
They had a murder (with a knife) on a kid that should have been expelled years ago this last year.

My friend retired from a city school last year. She made regular visits to the workman’s comp clinic. She had a drawer full of knives and shivs that looked like a prison warden would have. She disarmed kids armed with knives on a couple of occasions. She was in the elementary school by the way.

And the schools’ hands are completely tied by the US Dept of Education.

This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 11:35 am

3 ...

Report Post

Posted by JiminyCricket

Member since Jun 2017

3652 posts

Posted on 3/14/24 at 12:02 pm to 3nOut

quote:
i worked in schools for a while and this weekend I ran into an old friend that has been a HS counselor for 20+ years who just turned in her 2 weeks. hadn't seen each other in years and she told me how bad it was now and that "oppositional defiance" made her unable to do her job. They had a murder (with a knife) on a kid that should have been expelled years ago this last year.

Just to expand on that. For the folks who don’t know how IEP’s work in the school system, if a kid does something and the behavior is deemed to be “related to the exceptionality documented on the IEP” the punishment they are allowed to receive is VASTLY more limited than what protocol would call for.

So say you have a kid who is classified oppositionally defiant. That’s a fancy way of saying they will buck authority. Let’s say that kid screams at you, yelling frick you I’m not doing shite when given an assignment and you write that kid up for a referral. They will promptly send that kid right back because YOU exacerbated their documented IEP exceptionality so their behavior is actually your fault.

I quit and never looked back.

This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 12:03 pm

1 ...

Report Post

Political Talk - Replies to Post

Return To Board

Page 1

Return To Board