Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: ESE Parent Blaming Teachers In my internship, I am working in a middle school in the ASD unit. One of our students has a tendency to make violent and inappropriate comments. For example, he recently told one of the teachers in the unit that he was going to slit her throat after she took away a drawing that he was making during instruction time. More recently, he had an altercation with the PE Coach which resulted in him kicking her four times. Due to his situation, the coach did not decide to take serious action against the student, but he was written a disciplinary referral and his parents were contacted. In response to the situation, the student's mother sent a quite nasty email basically blaming the coach which stated that she felt as though the PE Coach could benefit from learning strategies on how to deal with students with autism, and that in future altercations, her son responds best to simply being ignored when he gets upset. She then kept her son out of school for a week so that he could "deal with the trauma he had experienced in PE". The PE coach at our school is ESE certified and has worked with students in our unit for many years. She is understandably quite upset at the mother's response to this altercation, and is now considering pressing charges against the student. How do you all think that the coach should respond to this situation? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I do not believe that pressing charges would help the situation whatsoever. Maybe a parent-teacher conference with the students parents and each of his teachers would help the parents to better understand the incidents that the child is causing. Sometimes parents tend to think that students are being attacked and mistreated and at times email is not the best form of communication for a parent to truly understand a situation. It sounds like all of the students teachers truly just want the best for him.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Face to face communication is best when it comes to serious situations like this. Rated On: February 24, 2019 8:32 pm Rated By: Ryduga                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Good idea Rated On: October 19, 2020 3:21 am Rated By: edudyp