Del. Joe Ellington, R-Mercer, talks about a legislative template that would give basic teachers more authority to eliminate disruptive and violent students. (Perry Bennett | West Virginia Legislative Photography)
The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a draft law on Monday that gives basic teachers more authority to remove disturbing and violent students.
The measurewhich failed In order to survive last year, there is an answer to teachers who ask legislators to assist deal with a growing problem of debt discipline. Violent attacks on teachers occur most frequently In the kindergarten classroomMany educators say that these children have become victims of child abuse and/or the state’s drug abuse crisis.
“House Bill 2515 states when a kindergarten determines by the sixth teacher that the behavior of a student is violent, threatened or intimidating to employees or colleagues or creates an insecure learning environment or hinders the ability of other students in a safe environment,” said House Education Committee, Joe Elellington, R-Mercer.
If the student is removed from a classroom a total of three times in a month to behave disruptive behavior, the headmaster would determine whether the student receives unrestricted or extra -curricular suspension or “can be considered in an alternative learning center if one is available within the school district”.
The measure has Criticism confronted The too many proven students would be forced to learn online at home, as fewer than half of the 55 counties of the state have alternative learning centers.
House members processed the invoice last week; It is now asking counties to create alternative learning centers in order to tackle the behavior of chronically disturbing students.
It is still not associated with proposed funds for the construction of these centers or the hiring of additional employees in schools.
While some Republicans of the house promised an upcoming draft law for resources for the school’s resources, DEL said. Mike Puschkin, D-Kanawha that the financing should come first during the session. The bill passed the house 92-4; Puschkin voted against it.
“In any case, I understand the need for this type of bill … and I guess that this is a better bill than we last year,” he said. “My concern is that there will still be many children without the corresponding resources that fall through the cracks. The resource should have come first. We do not deal with the underlying problems. ”
Puschkin was also concerned about the fact that this year’s budget restrictions could affect all spending on school resources for mental health.
The recent version would also enable a student to be displaced, but only if repeated behavior occurs.
Senator Amy Grady, R-Mason, a primary school teacher, has prioritized the primary school discipline of the primary school in the past two years, and the Senate Education Committee will start her version on Tuesday.
“I really think that you made a lot of really good changes to the bill and did much better than that last year,” she said. “I took out a few things that I do not agree to … I have the feeling that it is a better calculation that can all get to help these children at school.”
Grady wants to see students who are disciplined for the first time to maintain disturbing behavior in order to see a school consultant, school social worker or psychologist and create a behavior plan to be implemented for a period of two weeks.
“Sometimes you may have a case in which you do something, and then change this behavior when you create a plan for you. And sometimes they have the repeat offenders, who are really less than maybe 1% of the students. That is that you try to deal with, ”she said.
Both the versions of the Senate and the house versions prescribe that the discipline of the students cannot be conflict with the law on the formation of disabilities, and pupils who are removed from school must be evaluated to a possible disability that could be the root of behavioral problems.
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