My Way News - More 'fight club' allegations at Texas school
"Mar 22, 1:22 AM (ET)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Nine employees are under investigation over allegations of new fights among mentally disabled residents of the troubled Corpus Christi State School, a state lawmaker said Saturday night."
If this story is true, I hope there becomes widespread awareness that there are "cancer cells of abuse" across the country.
I understand that school employees should not be subjected to violence by disabled students. None of us should.
The requirement that behavioral education is to be provided by our public school agencies is clearly stated in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Without behavioral education, academic education can not occur. Without social and emotional education, academic education can not occur.
How many professionally trained behavior specialists are there that are overseeing the behavior requirements of the students? How many teachers and school sites are left to their own to provide behavioral education? How many teachers and school sites that do not have the necessary skills and resources provide an environment that makes the behavior worse. In other words, are they inadvertenly teaching wrongly?
No school system would ever admit that their practices actually increase the inappropriate behaviors, despite the numbers of disabled kids that end of being arrested in special education centers. Even when there is evidence that 82% of students did not receive (see page 3)the services written into the IEP's. Apparently the District misrepresented their actions to the parents, their employees and to the state, as the state was providing money for these services based on the Matrix of Service provided by the district to the state.
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