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SPECIAL NEEDS??? Are you SERIOUS?
May 14, 2008 | 10:26 PM
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I just finished watching the news and the story about the "Special needs child that was being criminalized by the school system." I am sick and tired of hearing excuses for inappropriate behavior amongst the youth of today. When are the parents going to step up to the plate? I am not saying that there aren't "Special Needs" children out there, but I think this child is a different story.  This child said "I can't stand for anyone to touch me in any way, I am afraid they might hurt me." SO obviously he knows the difference between right and wrong. He knows what it means to "hurt" someone because he has the ability to fear it. Instead, he acts on it.  Well what gives him the right to touch or ASSAULT the teachers? When the teacher does the appropriate thing by calling authorities, the child is now made out to be the victim... ? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What he did was a criminal act. If he is a special needs child, I am sorry, but that does not excuse violent behavior. The parents chose to allow this special needs child to continue attending the school that was obviously a problem for this child. Perhaps they should try a different approach to getting his education so the other students and teachers that attend the school and work there wont become another statistic to the violence in our schools today. It angers me when I see stories like this. The child disrupting the class with violence against the teacher while the other children were probably witnessing the act. What do you think that does to the innocent children that share the school with him? The interview I saw of this child, seemed like he had a pretty good head on his shoulder. He spoke eloquently and seemed rather intelligent for 10 years old. I see someone using the "special needs" as a label they can hide behind to keep themselves from having to discipline their child for breaking the law... Somebody somewhere is falling short of their responsibilities and I don't think it's the teachers that refuse to allow themselves to be victimized. What should they have done? Sit back and wait for him to show up with a gun and start shooting, then that might have been the appropriate time to notify the authorities? If he is on, or has been on 25 different meds, obviously they are not working and that should be explored, otherwise, keep him out of the schools so the others can attend with peace of mind and a clear head for what should go on in school...TEACHING AND LEARNING..... NOT VIOLENCE~!
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mik1of3 read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 9:39 AM

I agree. My BFF was a special needs teacher for North Forest ISD a number of years ago, and there was one little girl that would bite, kick, scratch, pull hair, and then, when none of that worked, PEE on the teacher to get her way. You couldn't teach her anything because you couldn't make her behave, because she was special needs.
Talk about a waste of our tax dollars!
I agree that special needs kids should be taught, but that their PARENTS have to first make sure their special needs kid(s) are able to behave in order to enable them to BE taught.

I mean, if a PARENT can't make a child behave, what makes you think a TEACHER would be able to? They're TEACHERS, not PSYCHIATRISTS or PYSCHOLOGISTS!!
Foehammer read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 2:16 PM

My wife and I were debating this last night. She is on the side of the child...saying that if he is special needs then provisions should be made to ensure he is handled properly.

Me...I stood firm that the child was using the system to his advantage. Why? Well, the boy is said to like to play basketball. And the last I checked...that was a CONTACT sport. That means he is touched...and often.

Another thing I noticed and debated with my wife about was this...the child attacks teachers. I didn't hear anything about him attacking other students. My thoughts are that if he attacked another student...the other student might very well kick his butt. But he knows that teachers can't touch him and he is therefore able to take out his anger on them.

What do you guys think? Am I totally wrong with my thoughts on this?
Robin9223 read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 2:49 PM

Speaking as a mom of 2 special needs kids, I have seen first hand what teachers can and will not do. I don't speak of my kids often as special needs because they are on the low end of the spectrum. One is ADHD, the other ADD and ODD. When they where younger we had our hands full. Twin A was the worse (ADD and ODD). He would run away from the teachers daily if he didn't get his way. I would have to go to the school daily to take care of him since the teachers refused to do it. Once we moved out here to League City, his additude changed. He actually had teachers that took the time out to care for him. So much so that we could take him off his meds. Now he is in 9th grade doing very well. He has even been mainstreamed into "normal" classes. Really both have been.

ADD, ADHD, and ODD are behavioural. They spent alot of time in time outs, groundings, or just plain spankings. Now they are teenagers and pretty much "normal" with no meds and hardly ever get in trouble other than the typical teenage mouth.
RockStarJewelry read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 3:01 PM

I noticed the basketball part of the story as well but didn't put that in my blog. It is a contact sport and I figured by putting it in the blog someone would reply that it was a family member that he felt comfortable with, you know, more excuses. If he is special needs and he has been on medication and still behaves this way, either the school is not right for him, the meds are not right for him, or his parents are not doing whats right for him... It's not the teachers, the law enforcement, or the legal system with the problem here. I agree with you 100% FOE, but I don't believe it's just the child I feel THE PARENTS are also taking advantage of the system. If the child has been in trouble with the law, chances are, he has some legal fees building up and what better way to get them "taken care of" than to put the blame elsewhere then try to sue... If I am wrong here, why did the parents allow him to repeatedly go back and attend the same school that the paernts are saying were "mistreating their special needs child." What a bunch of BLEEP~!


Robin, It sounds to me like you have been the responsible parent and not once did you make excuses or play the victim in your comment. When you see something not working, you try to see what you can do to fix it. You moved. These parents kept sending him to the same school and now they all of a sudden have a problem with it..

I am not saying that EVERY child with Special needs is hiding behind the label, I just found this particular story to be absolutely outrageous~!

If the parents aren't going to help him help himself, perh
RockStarJewelry read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 3:04 PM

perhaps it's time the legal system did.

Would you want your children going to a school where every day you have to worry if they are going to be attacked, or if their teachers will be attacked in front of them? If someone needs that much "one-on-one" time, then I don't believe they should be in a school until their behavior is under control.. Of course they have the right to an education, but the teachers have the right to go to work and not have the fear of being assaulted...
Robin9223 read my blog view my photos
May 15, 2008 | 3:33 PM

Alot of parents and teachers hide behind the specials needs label because they don't want to be bothered by their child's behaviour. When my boys started school and started misbehaving, the teachers immediately labeled them ADD or ADHD. At one school, I was met daily by the principal asking if I had them tested yet. Little did she know that it takes alot more than going to the dr to be diagnoised. We had to go to many dr's, who then talked to all adults dealing with my boys. And then after months of this, half the teachers wouldn't even accept the diagnosis and just labeled my boys as bad kids. I have had teachers restrain Twin A to the point of abuse in my mind, their protection in their mind. I have had CPS called on me because I would spank my boys infront of the teachers. CPS just laughed when they would come investigate and tell me teachers should sometimes mind their own business. (This was Spring Branch and Alief ISD by the way. We are now in Clear Creek ISD)
flashshockley read my blog view my photos
May 20, 2008 | 8:56 AM

Our schools are supposed to be institutions where our children learn and gain an understanding about where they fir into the future that lies ahead of them. Granted society must allow every child the opportunity to be educated but it also has a responsibility to protect the students and teachers from those who would seek to disrupt and attack what is given to them.

The "special needs" of the aforementioned child should be considered in relation as to how the majority of the other children and teachers who are affected by this one child's inability to control his actions.
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