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Well, I talked to the prinicipal at length this morning and we have a face-to-face meeting tomorrow morning with the school counselor as well.
A couple fo things I found out about the incidenta are:
- J's PTSD was trigger when he was in the bathroom, prior to hitting this kid. A SN kindergartener crawled into J's stall and this freaked J out. He did handle this okay as he called for help since the teacher was right outside the bathroom.
- it was after this that J ran into the boy he hit. J said 'hi' to him and didn't understand why the boy didn't say anything back since they were both cub scouts.
He believed this kid would be nice to him and that made him get mad. He is picked on at school and combined with that anger, the kid ignoring his hello and the PTSD, he let go and punched him. Not excusable, but atleast now I can understand his thought process.
The principal doesn't feel that at this time she wants to punish J, and I'm very okay with that, but would rather we meet tomorrow with the school counselor to figure out a plan for J's social woes. J told the principal about how the kids treat him and how he has no friends and everything. This made her both sad and mad for him and is not even more determined to help J.
Another positive is that I mentioned possibly giving J a fresh start with a new teacher. Mrs. M (the teacher I had past problems with) is J's math teacher and in her class J is doing very well. She's won awards for how she handles LD kids in her classroom and J said that aside from his intervention, math with Mrs. M is the best part of his day. I think that maybe giving him this fresh start may be a good thing. The principal said she thinks it is certainly a possibility and we could talk more about it at tomorrows meeting.
I'll post more tomorrow after we meet.
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