I have an ED kid. For those of you who get to live your lives outside the realm of school, that means Emotionally Disturbed. As in: batshit crazy. I’m going to kill him. He is disturbed enough that he shouldn’t be in public school. He disrupts the class with rude, inappropriate behavior. We were having a very sensitive, difficult, touchy conversation about racism and when kids shared things he laughed at them. This is a minor outburst for him apparently. I was livid. This is my god damn advanced class and he is alienating people to the point where they don’t want to have a serious conversation.
This child is not in the right place and I want him out. I just don’t know if it will happen. 🙁
Mainstreaming was a good idea that’s gone horribly wrong, by being stretched way past the point of usefulness. Good luck getting rid of the kid.
That sucks! Especially in an AP class!
That’s awful. You and the rest of your students have my sympathy. I’ll have to tell you sometime about the kid that caused my dad to quit in the middle of the school year. :-/ I hope you get better support from your administration than he did.
“This child is not in the right place and I want him out. I just don’t know if it will happen.”
I need only think back to the student I had who would kick himself in the face when corrected about anything to assure you, it will in fact, not happen.
Ah the joys of teaching.