“Oppositional Defiance Disorder” is a diagnosis that can get a student an IEP.
So a disruptive, violent child can show up to school every day - throw chairs, bring drugs to school - then get mom or dad to take them to the doc to diagnose them with ODD. It’s a manifestation of their disability.
“Inclusion” also means that these children need to be placed in the same classroom as all the other children. So 29 children are subject to the violence of 1.
I can tell you that every teacher in a title 1 school in the United States would echo what I have been saying right now.
I guess I’m just trying to raise the alarm. The system is absolutely falling apart at the seams in many parts of the U.S.
I had a student leave my classroom to jump another kid into his gang in the bathroom. He was suspended for 1 day. How is that safe?
I was Googling the Abby Zwerner case to link here, and found another teacher shot in the last five days.
It is cheaper to put severely behaviorally disturbed students in a classroom with no supports and call it “inclusion” than it is to put those children in an environment which meets their needs. It is destroying many schools in the U.S. right now.