First of all, is anyone reading my stuff I wonder? Anyways, today I taught in a 3rd grade classroom with a student who is very mentally disturbed, in a scary way - like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" but he is only 9 years old. I shall call him T to protect his identity. T flips out every time he sees a female student I'll call K. Apparently he attacks at the very sight of her and I found it to be true. He rises out of his desk and lunges at the poor girl, if he had a knife I swear he would stab her. The boy is diagnosed as being mentally ill, yet they mainstream him. He just sits there scowling, putting his face in his hands, or mumbling repetitive statements about random things. He's not retarded by any means, more like paranoid schiznophrenic. I tried to get the psycho boy to make a mother's day card, he looked up and yelled "what has she ever done for me!" Later in the day he tore the label off of his bottled water and ate it -seriously. I watched him swallow it. The other kids said he does it all the time. Fortunately, the rest of the students were all perfectly behaved angels, I love 3rd grade best. I have to say that T is a future serial killer in the making. He is very scary.
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I'll make a comment. Is this school, a school for the mentally disabled? If I was one of the parents for the other children, I'd think I wouldn't have my child in the same classroom. Does he strike out at only this little girl, or is it all of them. Is he being treated for his illness, I wonder.
It would be interesting to follow this "little man" through his years. Think of it, should he become something as to what your thinking, you'd have quite the story to tell. Strange, isn't it?
It is a very nice school, with nice kids, all very normal. I suppose their thinking is that by placing him in a regular classroom he might be better able to adapt and deal with the real world. He only lunges at the one girl, for whatever reason. I was only substitute teaching in that room for one day. There's not a lot I can do about the kid. Not only did he eat the label off of his bottled water, but when it got hot it the room he would pull at his skin with his fingers and say how hot it is and fidget in his chair. I suppose I am supposed to feel sorry for the kid, but I don't. I feel sorry for his parents.
Seriously disturbing. They allow kids like this, unmedicated and without psychiatric evaluation, into our mainstream schools? No wonder we have incidents like UT, Columbine, and VA Tech...
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