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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 305924" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Bipolar is the most common cause of mania, but not the only one.</p><p></p><p>[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania[/ame]</p><p></p><p>I also am concerned at the school's lack of ability to "get it" especially since they are set up on site with the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). </p><p></p><p>difficult child 3's correspondence school has regular study days when kids attend for classes (a single day here or there). Kids do corrspondence for wildly varying reasons: some are sporting stars or attend a private performing arts school to the financially and artictically elite; others are like difficult child 3 and work form home for various physical health and emotional health reasons; others attend a "behaviour school" for kids who have been a major behaviour problem in mainstream. Throwing these kids together can eb a recipe for disaster, even with aides and supervisors also present and sitting in. This school doesn't deal with these issues on a daily basis, unlike Kanga's school - yet THIS school (difficult child 3's school) DOES get it, and WILL closely supervise/monitor where needed. Early on in difficult child 3's attendance here there was an incident between him and some boys from the behaviour school. While difficult child 3 was not at fault, he did escalate the situation with his (autistic) reactions. Nothing physical took place other than a shove, but I had the full works of the school reaction - abject apology, the promise of ongoing supervision (which was followed trough on, for several years) to keep difficult child 3 safe in all future encounters; a ban on the specific boys from the behaviour school in attending any study day where difficult child 3 wasalso attending. What difficult child 3 wanted to attend had priority; we were told that the other boys' behaviour had meant they forgeited choice to attend (which is seen as a privilege).</p><p></p><p>My point - if difficult child 3's school can get it so quickly and put good supervision in place, when attendance (and therefore incidence) is so infrequent, WHY can't Kanga's school get it, when they're right on the spot and have the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) staff right there warning them? And you warning them?</p><p></p><p>They sound to me like people who think those "poor Residential Treatment Center (RTC) kids" are just there because their families either don't want them, or the kids have been mistrwated and all they need is a hug.</p><p></p><p>They young boy at the school - he is heading for a lot of pain. It's great that being a boyfriend makes him feel good about himself. But that isn't a cure for whatever is wrong with him; if anything, it is setting him up badly. He needs the school to be working on helping him feel good about himself, NOT in any way dependant on how someone else feels about him. We all need to feel good about ourselves intrinsically. He is at a very vulnerable age anyway. How are the other kids going to treat him when Kanga moves on to someone else? How is he going to feel about himself? Let alone if he works out what she is doing, as you said...</p><p></p><p>The school needs to work with him NOW to help him find other ways to feel good baout himself, or tey'll have very serious problems on their hands.</p><p></p><p>On the legal front - if Kanga is hypersexual because she's in a manic phase, then to what extent can she legally be held responsible for her actions? However, you have warned the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (who seem to be doing what they can) and both they and you have warned the school (who think it's cute). So if Kanga and this boy kiss (or do more) then who SHOULD legally be responsible? The kid who is out of touch with reality? Or the school who have been warned of this (so it IS forseeable) and who also should have procedures in place to deal with this, if they expect to be permitted to have Residential Treatment Center (RTC) students enrolled with non-Residential Treatment Center (RTC) kids.</p><p></p><p>If something goes wrong and it is forseeable, then it is those who have had supervision of the kids during that time (especially when school attendance is mandatory) who have a legal responsibility to protect those kids from forseeable dangers.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 305924, member: 1991"] Bipolar is the most common cause of mania, but not the only one. [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania[/ame] I also am concerned at the school's lack of ability to "get it" especially since they are set up on site with the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). difficult child 3's correspondence school has regular study days when kids attend for classes (a single day here or there). Kids do corrspondence for wildly varying reasons: some are sporting stars or attend a private performing arts school to the financially and artictically elite; others are like difficult child 3 and work form home for various physical health and emotional health reasons; others attend a "behaviour school" for kids who have been a major behaviour problem in mainstream. Throwing these kids together can eb a recipe for disaster, even with aides and supervisors also present and sitting in. This school doesn't deal with these issues on a daily basis, unlike Kanga's school - yet THIS school (difficult child 3's school) DOES get it, and WILL closely supervise/monitor where needed. Early on in difficult child 3's attendance here there was an incident between him and some boys from the behaviour school. While difficult child 3 was not at fault, he did escalate the situation with his (autistic) reactions. Nothing physical took place other than a shove, but I had the full works of the school reaction - abject apology, the promise of ongoing supervision (which was followed trough on, for several years) to keep difficult child 3 safe in all future encounters; a ban on the specific boys from the behaviour school in attending any study day where difficult child 3 wasalso attending. What difficult child 3 wanted to attend had priority; we were told that the other boys' behaviour had meant they forgeited choice to attend (which is seen as a privilege). My point - if difficult child 3's school can get it so quickly and put good supervision in place, when attendance (and therefore incidence) is so infrequent, WHY can't Kanga's school get it, when they're right on the spot and have the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) staff right there warning them? And you warning them? They sound to me like people who think those "poor Residential Treatment Center (RTC) kids" are just there because their families either don't want them, or the kids have been mistrwated and all they need is a hug. They young boy at the school - he is heading for a lot of pain. It's great that being a boyfriend makes him feel good about himself. But that isn't a cure for whatever is wrong with him; if anything, it is setting him up badly. He needs the school to be working on helping him feel good about himself, NOT in any way dependant on how someone else feels about him. We all need to feel good about ourselves intrinsically. He is at a very vulnerable age anyway. How are the other kids going to treat him when Kanga moves on to someone else? How is he going to feel about himself? Let alone if he works out what she is doing, as you said... The school needs to work with him NOW to help him find other ways to feel good baout himself, or tey'll have very serious problems on their hands. On the legal front - if Kanga is hypersexual because she's in a manic phase, then to what extent can she legally be held responsible for her actions? However, you have warned the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (who seem to be doing what they can) and both they and you have warned the school (who think it's cute). So if Kanga and this boy kiss (or do more) then who SHOULD legally be responsible? The kid who is out of touch with reality? Or the school who have been warned of this (so it IS forseeable) and who also should have procedures in place to deal with this, if they expect to be permitted to have Residential Treatment Center (RTC) students enrolled with non-Residential Treatment Center (RTC) kids. If something goes wrong and it is forseeable, then it is those who have had supervision of the kids during that time (especially when school attendance is mandatory) who have a legal responsibility to protect those kids from forseeable dangers. Marg [/QUOTE]
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