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Violent Autistic Kindergartner - How To Advocate For The Other Children To Keep Them Safe

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I need advice on how to proceed with the following situation. There is an autistic kindergartener who becomes violent and has hurt many kids and his teachers at school (beat up a 4th and 5th grader on the bus to the point their parents had to take them home, punched another kindergartener, ripped my daughter off the monkey bars on two separate occasions falling on her head, kicked her in the head while she was on the ground after pulling her off the monkey bars, chased my daughter around with a huge wood chip threatening to poke her eye out, bites and hits the teacher at least a couple times a week, injured the teachers finger to the point it’s in a brace, completely destroys the classroom and the kids have to evacuate at least a couple times a week for hours). The school has brought in aides, behavioral therapists and the district special education director. Nothing has worked. The teacher is still getting attacked and he’s still destroying the classroom and it’s a disruption to the kids learning. Many parents have reached out and expressed their concerns but the district responds that they’re doing what they can. We’ve heard from other parents that the parents of the autistic kid are litigating against the district.

What else can the school even try to accommodate him? I don’t know too many details about what they’ve done because they can’t share much, likely because of the litigation.

What can we do as parents of these kids besides just continually contacting the principal, deputy superintendent, community superintendent, the superintendent and the chief student success officer?? They’ve responded but with very vague responses with no actual action plan. It’s infuriating not knowing any details.

Wondering if we threaten to litigate and do we do so as a group or come at them individually from different lawyers? We don’t want money, we just want action. I just wonder if we’d even have a case. We want this boy to get the attention he needs. We know this isn’t his fault. He’s a victim as well and he’s clearly overstimulated in a classroom with 23 other kids. Looking for any suggestions! I’d like to hear from special education lawyers and parents with autistic kids so I can hear that side of it as well.

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