Another of my favorite dislikes - every profession and occupation today talks about how stressful their job is.

I am fortunate, I guess, as I like a reasonable amount of "stress".  I call it the competitive edge.

I liken real stress a lot to fear - fear can be a great motivator, like in business when things aren't going well and you have to come up with plan X; or it can be debilitating, like the syndrome of the deer in the headlights.  Which it is for any given person is a product of how you're trained to handle it.

I tried to teach my daughter this as she was growing up.  I recall once when she was in the 6th grade, and the teacher asked her why she was so alert all of the time and sometimes even appeasred to be tense, when she really wasn't tense; just very alert.  Her reply was, "Mrs. Jones, life is like a dogfight and there's a Mig right behind you trying to get a lock to put a missile right up your six".

This training led to a kid who was earning about $30K a year in her own business by the time she was in the 10th grade.  She now owns two companies, is happily married, and is an elected official in our town.  Stress, properly viewed, can be a very motivating thing.

Babyhog- I have seen this happen many times. He should never have been identified as IEP LD, as I assume he has no learning disabilities. If he has no LDs, or even if he does, even though the system has let him down, the final responsibility for his education is his. If he doesn't accept that responsibility, there is nothing the educational system, or you, can do.
I have seen quite a few kids who have fallen through the cracks finally get their sh!t together and go back to school and start a career. Hope for the best.

I wonder where the bomb disposal techs come in on the stress meter?

Last month a 11 year old (approximately) who was riding in a van with us (3 troubled students, a driver and I functioning as monitor) yeah I know- sorrry fire lizard,  not stealiing your title.  This 11 year likes to rap obscene lyrics...well this particular ride he was good the whole 35 minute ride to his house..then, he wouldn't get out of the van.  AFTER talking with hi father , his psychologist, his father again, the police dispatcher (all on my cell phone) (now we have been at it for 20 minutes, the police arrive and talk him out of the van (he had been boasting how juvie was gonna be great..chickened out when the uniforms arrived.)  My thought, what goes on in that house that the child would rather sit in the van rather than go into the hose with "auntie"??????  20 years I worked for the Departmentof Mental Retardation in Mass, now a couple years as sub school bus and van driver..I'm guessing they got most of the children off the bus except for the small group in the back and the student and adult? sitting accross the aisle....and the principal comes aboard to get the recalcatrint (sp) student off the bus...gives him an order and then physically removes the child wneh he refuses..not lawsuit material given he probably pinned the squirming child on the sidewalk so he wouldn.t try to get back on the bus or bolt..and possibly get hit be another vehicle.   Still, perhaps just going on with the route and returning at the end with the one child on board and trying it again might have been a smoother move.

I dont remember issues like this needing to be resolved when I was a kid. I dont remember all these Special Needs kids,.
I dont remember more than 1 fat kid in a class of 30.
I dont remember ANY autistic kids.

Is my name Ronald Reagan or have things changed?

& I think society used to make such behavior uncomfortable for the person acting out.,Kids shunned kids who acted weird.,now theres all this
"Touchy Feely" stuff, Non Judging, everybody is okay,,right? Isnt that the atmosphere at the indoctrination centers?

You know IM not talking about kids who are medically Broken, right?

The numbers are exploding, kids are damaged, & vaccines are one of the core problems, food is next.