I’d imagine district policy was violated several ways through Sunday. So ya.

Depends on how the school district trained the SPED teacher. Students with emotional disorders can have a wide range of behaviors. Couple that with restraint policies and there may not be a plan in place to deal with this student.
 
Unless you are used to dealing with students with emotional disorders you’ll not know…

Most districts SHOULD have approved restraint policies. I’d imagine this is not one of them.

If I did that as a teacher, I’d be soooooooooo fired.

I’m a special education teacher and this is the population of kids that work with and this is appalling to me. I work with the high school age kids that have emotional disorders and mental health needs. I’ve had chairs thrown at me, spit on, kicked, and once had to de-escalate a situation where a student was…

I hate to be that guy but the term Redneck does not originate with labor struggle you describe. I’d love that to be true since it becomes a progressive term.

The origin is pretty spotty but it appears in print multiple times pre-dating the 1920s.

For example, it was used in print to describe the British during the Boer…

As a special ed teacher who works with students with severe behavior disorders, autism, etc.

You could not be more wrong on every level.

I lived in two countries with pretty socialized healthcare systems, the UK being one, and every time I go to the doctor stateside now I am filled with blind rage.

I came here to say that

I still remembering reading all the way through the RED WEDDING and then throwing the book over into the corner.

I was like “Book. You and me are gonna fight about this”

Counterpoint: Portland is a weird disney land of forced whimsy and over priced housing. You shouldn’t WANT to move there.

Hey I get 15% off my phone bill!

Teachers unions can be pretty neutered depending on the state and can often effectively be utterly toothless.

To be fair, it’s for the best. In 4 years, ya’ll will envy me.

Please go back and reread what I wrote. Then apply critical thinking skills. Come back when you catch up. Kthx

Unions are the most evil thing in the world for some people because they know this one guy who knew a dude who dated a girl who once drank next to a teacher who was drunk in class and the teachers union made it so he got to keep his job, marry the high school cheerleader and write run on sentences with no…

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/january/test-scores-ranking-011513.html

Statistics can be misleading and this again goes back to poverty. We have a higher percentage of students in poverty than most OECD countries except mexico, turkey and like, Chile or something last I checked.

Accounting for poverty, we score near…

If only there was some way they could leverage their collective desires and bargain for better things.

It’s easy to get rid of bad teachers if administration just does their damn job and documents things like they should.

That said, Unions protect their members because that is what they are designed to do. They are basically holding management to standards set down in a contract and will ensure that it’s members get…

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/how-states-with-no-teacher-uni.html

I can’t find all the studies but this is a quick summation of a study I read a few years ago.

The problem is you’re comparing wildly disparate communities as “widgets” in a factory system that you cannot do. That said,…

Hey if they want to move to year round schools, I’m all for it. If I was paid for a 2,080 hour work year, I’d be making 100k.