What is it you would have the principal do? Keep Theresa in a room of her own? Keep her only among children whose parents haven’t noticed that she’s struggling and lashing out?
How about: keep her from hitting the other kids? Is that really too much to ask?
schooling at this age isn’t only about learning language arts and math and science (etc.) skills; it’s also about learning social and interpersonal skills of all kinds.
Interpersonal skills like: what to do when the adults around them can't be trusted? What solution are the kids supposed to find that the teacher can't?
This is such a bad answer. The school lost the parents' trust by failing to protect their children, failing to help Theresa, and failing to communicate about what was going on. Why should LW trust them now? Has anything changed? Because if the principal's whole argument is "look, time has passed, surely we won't have the same problem again," they're not trying very hard to get that trust back, either.
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How about: keep her from hitting the other kids? Is that really too much to ask?
schooling at this age isn’t only about learning language arts and math and science (etc.) skills; it’s also about learning social and interpersonal skills of all kinds.
Interpersonal skills like: what to do when the adults around them can't be trusted? What solution are the kids supposed to find that the teacher can't?
This is such a bad answer. The school lost the parents' trust by failing to protect their children, failing to help Theresa, and failing to communicate about what was going on. Why should LW trust them now? Has anything changed? Because if the principal's whole argument is "look, time has passed, surely we won't have the same problem again," they're not trying very hard to get that trust back, either.