What have you done today?

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slept and coughed

[DirtDawg]

a bunch of fractals

[Christopher McCandless]

Wrote an angry email to the school.

I hope the issue is resolved to your satisfaction.

Not by a long shot, unfortunately. A kid in my son's class punched him in the throat yesterday, yet the school is doing very little.

That's awful.  Was your son injured?  Was the kid who hit him a 'typical' child?

He got a scare, that's all, but he was lucky. An inch or two to the left and he would have ended up in the hospital, or worse.

It's a police matter now. The kid was placed in my son's class just a few weeks ago, without any sort of advance warning or heads-up. He's what they call a "problem child", and he's been busy bullying other kids, stealing stuff from everyone in sight, including teachers. Plus he's into martial arts, from what I hear.

They sent him home yesterday, and now I'm trying to force them to move him elsewhere. I've been busy writing letters.

Good.  I'm glad that they are doing something now because that's not a safe situation for anyone, not even the aggressor.

Another autistic child grabbed my daughter's neck because she was on the computer in their classroom, he wanted to use it, and he was having trouble waiting for his turn.  Another time, he pulled her hair while she was swinging on the playground.  He was 15 years old and over six feet tall and the teachers who dealt with him started wearing heavy gauntlets over their arms because of his aggressiveness.  They wound up finding him another placement, although I don't know the details due to the teachers respecting his privacy. 

We're worried about what will happen if he isn't moved.

If other parents complain enough then eventually something will happen. It does not necessarily mean that he needs to be moved though, there are other ways of dealing with it which I imagine they are supposed to try first.

[odeon]

Wrote an angry email to the school.

I hope the issue is resolved to your satisfaction.

Not by a long shot, unfortunately. A kid in my son's class punched him in the throat yesterday, yet the school is doing very little.

That's awful.  Was your son injured?  Was the kid who hit him a 'typical' child?

He got a scare, that's all, but he was lucky. An inch or two to the left and he would have ended up in the hospital, or worse.

It's a police matter now. The kid was placed in my son's class just a few weeks ago, without any sort of advance warning or heads-up. He's what they call a "problem child", and he's been busy bullying other kids, stealing stuff from everyone in sight, including teachers. Plus he's into martial arts, from what I hear.

They sent him home yesterday, and now I'm trying to force them to move him elsewhere. I've been busy writing letters.

Good.  I'm glad that they are doing something now because that's not a safe situation for anyone, not even the aggressor.

Another autistic child grabbed my daughter's neck because she was on the computer in their classroom, he wanted to use it, and he was having trouble waiting for his turn.  Another time, he pulled her hair while she was swinging on the playground.  He was 15 years old and over six feet tall and the teachers who dealt with him started wearing heavy gauntlets over their arms because of his aggressiveness.  They wound up finding him another placement, although I don't know the details due to the teachers respecting his privacy. 

We're worried about what will happen if he isn't moved.

If other parents complain enough then eventually something will happen. It does not necessarily mean that he needs to be moved though, there are other ways of dealing with it which I imagine they are supposed to try first.

Cut off the bloody kid's hands?

[TheoK]

Giving him a little firecracker to play with. The sort that makes shrapnel of road signs of metal. ½ cm fuse. 

[Christopher McCandless]

Wrote an angry email to the school.

I hope the issue is resolved to your satisfaction.

Not by a long shot, unfortunately. A kid in my son's class punched him in the throat yesterday, yet the school is doing very little.

That's awful.  Was your son injured?  Was the kid who hit him a 'typical' child?

He got a scare, that's all, but he was lucky. An inch or two to the left and he would have ended up in the hospital, or worse.

It's a police matter now. The kid was placed in my son's class just a few weeks ago, without any sort of advance warning or heads-up. He's what they call a "problem child", and he's been busy bullying other kids, stealing stuff from everyone in sight, including teachers. Plus he's into martial arts, from what I hear.

They sent him home yesterday, and now I'm trying to force them to move him elsewhere. I've been busy writing letters.

Good.  I'm glad that they are doing something now because that's not a safe situation for anyone, not even the aggressor.

Another autistic child grabbed my daughter's neck because she was on the computer in their classroom, he wanted to use it, and he was having trouble waiting for his turn.  Another time, he pulled her hair while she was swinging on the playground.  He was 15 years old and over six feet tall and the teachers who dealt with him started wearing heavy gauntlets over their arms because of his aggressiveness.  They wound up finding him another placement, although I don't know the details due to the teachers respecting his privacy. 

We're worried about what will happen if he isn't moved.

If other parents complain enough then eventually something will happen. It does not necessarily mean that he needs to be moved though, there are other ways of dealing with it which I imagine they are supposed to try first.

Cut off the bloody kid's hands?

Isolation within the school and having a minder is an example. The problem with such children is that they cannot be moved around forever - really its something that you should be writing to your politicians about.

[Callaway]

Wrote an angry email to the school.

I hope the issue is resolved to your satisfaction.

Not by a long shot, unfortunately. A kid in my son's class punched him in the throat yesterday, yet the school is doing very little.

That's awful.  Was your son injured?  Was the kid who hit him a 'typical' child?

He got a scare, that's all, but he was lucky. An inch or two to the left and he would have ended up in the hospital, or worse.

It's a police matter now. The kid was placed in my son's class just a few weeks ago, without any sort of advance warning or heads-up. He's what they call a "problem child", and he's been busy bullying other kids, stealing stuff from everyone in sight, including teachers. Plus he's into martial arts, from what I hear.

They sent him home yesterday, and now I'm trying to force them to move him elsewhere. I've been busy writing letters.

Good.  I'm glad that they are doing something now because that's not a safe situation for anyone, not even the aggressor.

Another autistic child grabbed my daughter's neck because she was on the computer in their classroom, he wanted to use it, and he was having trouble waiting for his turn.  Another time, he pulled her hair while she was swinging on the playground.  He was 15 years old and over six feet tall and the teachers who dealt with him started wearing heavy gauntlets over their arms because of his aggressiveness.  They wound up finding him another placement, although I don't know the details due to the teachers respecting his privacy. 

We're worried about what will happen if he isn't moved.

If other parents complain enough then eventually something will happen. It does not necessarily mean that he needs to be moved though, there are other ways of dealing with it which I imagine they are supposed to try first.

Cut off the bloody kid's hands?

Isolation within the school and having a minder is an example. The problem with such children is that they cannot be moved around forever - really its something that you should be writing to your politicians about.

That's a good point, Hadron.

If he were in the US, they would probably want to try isolating him with a paraprofessional if they can before they try moving him, especially since they just moved him to this school.

[TheoK]

Bah, give the little bastid a Cobra 6 to play with. Just make sure the fuse is only ½ cm.   

[Phlexor]

Bah, give the little bastid a Cobra 6 to play with. Just make sure the fuse is only ½ cm.   

Wouldn't this cobra be more effective?

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[TheoK]

Whatever. Both are lethal. The firecracker is 15 times stronger than the original M-80! 

[odeon]

Quite frankly, I don't give a shit about the kid. Give him a Cobra to play with, give him some firecrackers, give him whatever, as long as he doesn't bother my son again. I don't want to be writing to politicians about him because I really don't care, as long as he does not pose a danger to my son.

Simple enough?

[odeon]

Wrote another few thousand words on my whitepaper. Need to be finished by tomorrow night.

[Christopher McCandless]

Quite frankly, I don't give a shit about the kid. Give him a Cobra to play with, give him some firecrackers, give him whatever, as long as he doesn't bother my son again. I don't want to be writing to politicians about him because I really don't care, as long as he does not pose a danger to my son.

Simple enough?

You should be writing to politicians to get them to sort the system out properly. You know, so it is less likely to happen to a kid like your son in the first place. If everyone took that line, then this would have been for less likely to have happened in the first place!

[odeon]

Quite frankly, I don't give a shit about the kid. Give him a Cobra to play with, give him some firecrackers, give him whatever, as long as he doesn't bother my son again. I don't want to be writing to politicians about him because I really don't care, as long as he does not pose a danger to my son.

Simple enough?

You should be writing to politicians to get them to sort the system out properly. You know, so it is less likely to happen to a kid like your son in the first place. If everyone took that line, then this would have been for less likely to have happened in the first place!

Considering that you don't really know what happened, or why it happened, you're making a lot of assumptions.

[TheoK]

Don't they do like they did when I went to school - move the victims and let the bullies stay?