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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 256858" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>FIGHT THIS TOOTH AND NAIL!!!!!!! Juvy will help - help him learn MORE bad behaviors!!!!! He will NOT get mental health care there, no matter what they say.</p><p></p><p>Even if they don't call them Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s in your area, there are placements. Therapeutic foster care, emotional growth boarding schools, partial day hospital programs, and lots more things. You have to SEARCH for them. You also may need to send him to a program in a different state. Just because a placement is close does not mean it will be a good fit with what your difficult child needs.</p><p></p><p>This child is WAY too young for juvie. It is a bad thing for the mentally ill at any age, but it is esp bad for a child.</p><p></p><p>The teacher needs to have things thrown at her. If she managed the classroom better the kids would not be teasing and flipping each other off and calling kids names. They would be BUSY. (The teacher in the class can make a HUGE difference. Wiz was in a pull out ED class in 5th grade. In the entire YEAR the teacher and staff did FIVE restraint holds. FIVE. A year after that the good teacher switched schools. The new ED teacher was much like the one your son has. She was averaging 3 holds per DAY by the end of her first year. Now, in her 4th year she is actually UP to 5 holds per DAY!!! I have a few friends in the school and one asked me if that was too many holds when she only has 6 kids, she has 2 aids and NONE of hte kids are in the class all day!!!! See the difference a teacher can make?????)</p><p></p><p>anyway, you need a lawyer, you need to contact the Director of Special Services or whatever the person at the Board of Ed in your district is and get HER involved, AND you need to contact the State Board of Ed about this.</p><p></p><p>They cannot threaten to HIT children, not even with nasty germy flyswatters, for ANY reason. Esp not kids with special needs.</p><p></p><p>You will need to do training with the staff/teachers at this school. Have your psychologist come in and do it if possible. Or make a DVD to play for the teachers.</p><p></p><p>You also need to give the teachers a copy of The Explosive Child or Dr Greene's new book. A copy of the Bipolar Child and any other books you find helpful would be something to suggest to them. Esp if you make the higher up people aware you are trying to help them learn new ways and an "in service" might be VERY helpful.</p><p></p><p>The pricipal who yelled or talked loudly to your child must also be reported. It does NO good and LOTS of damage to tell an unstable child that his actions are just for attentionn. (If it worked MY son would have gotten better when husband kept telling him that. And WE almost divorced over it because I was furious and KNEW Wiz couldn't control the things that upset husband the most!)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I hope this can get straightened out soon. A whole bunch of mean nincomp00ps run that school!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 256858, member: 1233"] FIGHT THIS TOOTH AND NAIL!!!!!!! Juvy will help - help him learn MORE bad behaviors!!!!! He will NOT get mental health care there, no matter what they say. Even if they don't call them Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s in your area, there are placements. Therapeutic foster care, emotional growth boarding schools, partial day hospital programs, and lots more things. You have to SEARCH for them. You also may need to send him to a program in a different state. Just because a placement is close does not mean it will be a good fit with what your difficult child needs. This child is WAY too young for juvie. It is a bad thing for the mentally ill at any age, but it is esp bad for a child. The teacher needs to have things thrown at her. If she managed the classroom better the kids would not be teasing and flipping each other off and calling kids names. They would be BUSY. (The teacher in the class can make a HUGE difference. Wiz was in a pull out ED class in 5th grade. In the entire YEAR the teacher and staff did FIVE restraint holds. FIVE. A year after that the good teacher switched schools. The new ED teacher was much like the one your son has. She was averaging 3 holds per DAY by the end of her first year. Now, in her 4th year she is actually UP to 5 holds per DAY!!! I have a few friends in the school and one asked me if that was too many holds when she only has 6 kids, she has 2 aids and NONE of hte kids are in the class all day!!!! See the difference a teacher can make?????) anyway, you need a lawyer, you need to contact the Director of Special Services or whatever the person at the Board of Ed in your district is and get HER involved, AND you need to contact the State Board of Ed about this. They cannot threaten to HIT children, not even with nasty germy flyswatters, for ANY reason. Esp not kids with special needs. You will need to do training with the staff/teachers at this school. Have your psychologist come in and do it if possible. Or make a DVD to play for the teachers. You also need to give the teachers a copy of The Explosive Child or Dr Greene's new book. A copy of the Bipolar Child and any other books you find helpful would be something to suggest to them. Esp if you make the higher up people aware you are trying to help them learn new ways and an "in service" might be VERY helpful. The pricipal who yelled or talked loudly to your child must also be reported. It does NO good and LOTS of damage to tell an unstable child that his actions are just for attentionn. (If it worked MY son would have gotten better when husband kept telling him that. And WE almost divorced over it because I was furious and KNEW Wiz couldn't control the things that upset husband the most!) Anyway, I hope this can get straightened out soon. A whole bunch of mean nincomp00ps run that school!!! [/QUOTE]
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