01-03-2012, 03:07 AM
They used to have conduct disorder rooms for the kids who couldn't sit down and behave. The parents of the brats bitched because their kids were in the room with other brats. You have to laugh about that. It's okay for someone to have a heathen child, but don't you dare make the heathen deal with other kids who behave the same way. Nooo, put them in the room to bother everybody else. That makes perfect sense.
Emotional problems are a different animal. Some kids don't display any behaviors that interrupt instruction, so they are fine in the same rooms. A kid who stabs the teacher and other kids is probably better off in a room with a specialist that wants to deal with that all day. We are putting dangerous kids in the same rooms with everybody else. That is wrong, but most parents don't know because of privacy laws. First kid that stabs my kid is getting his/her ass kicked. (Actually, they won't get anything but a chat with the counselor and maybe a new pencil so they can stab someone else.)
The last year I worked with kids, I had more on probation than the local watering hole on a Friday night. I get stopped by adults on the street often who thank me. I always wish I could have done more, but my hands were tied. The shits all ended up in jail/prison/Just Busted magazine and the kids who were headed in the right direction are still doing well as grown people. Could I have done more if I didn't have to deal with the shits? I will never know. Real life isn't like the movies.
Emotional problems are a different animal. Some kids don't display any behaviors that interrupt instruction, so they are fine in the same rooms. A kid who stabs the teacher and other kids is probably better off in a room with a specialist that wants to deal with that all day. We are putting dangerous kids in the same rooms with everybody else. That is wrong, but most parents don't know because of privacy laws. First kid that stabs my kid is getting his/her ass kicked. (Actually, they won't get anything but a chat with the counselor and maybe a new pencil so they can stab someone else.)
The last year I worked with kids, I had more on probation than the local watering hole on a Friday night. I get stopped by adults on the street often who thank me. I always wish I could have done more, but my hands were tied. The shits all ended up in jail/prison/Just Busted magazine and the kids who were headed in the right direction are still doing well as grown people. Could I have done more if I didn't have to deal with the shits? I will never know. Real life isn't like the movies.