I have a new special needs student in my class. He is a 4th grader who is in extended resource for half of the day. The rest of the time, he is in my custody. However, he doesn't think he should follow my instructions. He thinks he doesn't have to do the work the others do. He just gets to sit there and talk and disturb others.
To start with, he had his sweat shirt on and the hoodie over his head. NOT allowed. I told him to take the hood off. He refused. So, I told him to take the whole thing off and he threw a 3 year old type temper tantrum. He stomped, cried, told me he was "mad" at me and flat out refused to do what I told him to do. In fact, he did the opposite. If I told him to sit, he stood. If I told him to stand, he sat on the floor.
I lost my temper for the first time this year. It was awful. I finally called the Vice Principal and told her to remove him from the classroom. She actually had to take him by the shoulders and push him out of the room. She kept him quite a while. He finally came back and apologized. I told him, that that kind of behavior would not be allowed in my class EVER. If he was going to be in the regular class, he was going to follow the same rules and procedures that everyone was expected to follow.
It turns out that the other elementaries in our district are unloading their special needs students with problems on our school. I don't know how they are getting away with this. But, they are. All of my special needs students are transfers from other elementaries in the district. I want to know who is doing this. I am going to go to the top if I have to to find the answers. This is so unfair. We are not a dumping ground for all the elementaries in the area. To start with, it will lower our scores on the AIMS tests if they are all at our school. Arizona doesn't give a darn if you are special ed or not. They can modify the way you take the test, but you have to take the grade level test for the grade you are in.
This could end up a very long year.