I've come to the conclusion, that I must be fuckin nutz to work in a school were we get absolutely no admin support and the children(if you can call them children) are all ridiculos. One of my boys shit on himself, and I shutter to think that in some number of years one of them may turn out to be a sexual offender. We have children that throw desks, scream at teachers, dismantle class rooms and cause a severe distraction to the rest of the class as well as the school. We call parents, create/leave paper trails, do action plans and behavior journals galore(which we don't see again once they leave school) and all sorts of creative ways to deal with these children. At the end of the day we, the staff, feel like we have accomplished something only to have to start all over again the next day.
Just before the school year started, we attended this really awesome training called "Capturing Kids Hearts". The title would make you think its teaching you ways to change the kids behavoir. It really teaches you to change yourself to cater to the kids and get the desired behavior. But the facilitator made a comment about why these children behave they way they do there were several reasons, but these were the ones that stuck out to me:
1. They are unhappy or angry about a current situation which they have no control over.
2. There is some service or something which they aren't getting while they are in school.
Th second reason seems to be the one I believe most. On several occasions, families chose to pull a child and send them elsewhere, but the school called and convinced them to bring the child back knowing what kind of behavior was to follow. So much for tending to the childs needs right? And damn the staff right?
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