Posted on 04/21/2017 8:18:44 PM PDT by Morgana
This can’t be a serious question or discussion.
OMG. The ignorance on this thread is astounding.
Not true. A Paraprofessional is often defined as
a person to whom a particular aspect of a professional task is delegated but who is not licensed to practice as a fully qualified professional.
In some school districts one must be a licensed teacher or a licensed substitute teacher. In other school districts, the title is given to anyone with a high school diploma. Paraprofessionals, Aides, Classroom Aides, Resource Aides, One on One Aides, Instructional Aides, etc. can be assigned to students or classrooms with students who have IEPs, 504s for medical or educational reasons or students in process aka INS&R. It depends on the State and District.
Not necessarily. It depends on the State and District.
Again, it depends on the State and District requirements.
Google it. Or look into the requirements for your State as all States differ.
Then there would be a lawsuit and threads on here about a teacher or aide or admin who violated the kid’s or parent’s rights.
Seriously, these threads are becoming more absurd.
In some States and Districts yes. In others, no. These broad brush posts with little to no actual knowledge say way more about the poster than anything else.
Again you post only what you believe to be true but isn’t in all States and Districts. OMG some of you people are really clueless.
Some States and some Districts require Certification/college degree in order to be a Paraprofessional. It depends on the State and District requirements. Pay can exceed $50,000/yr for a 10 month employee (or 181 days) with full medical and pension benefits. Or it can be as little as you stated.
People really need to read the requirements for their State and individual Districts.
In NJ, a Certified Teacher with a Bachelors’ Degree or post graduate degree can make around $50,000 or more/year with full medical and pension benefits being a “paraprofessional” depending on experience. It’s also possible for a person with no college degree or certification to be employed as a “paraprofessional” or aide or some other delineation for various “aide” type jobs in schools.
I am astounded by the ignorance on this thread.
This is not new. It’s been happening since at least the 1980s.
Your ignorance is amazing, lol.
Kids with autism can “lose it” and not be in control of their bodies when upset.
Because of that, they need to NOT be mainstreamed until and unless they have found ways (even using their aide) to prevent losing it completely and giving in to flailing and hurting others.
As a mom of special needs kids, I do not believe any kid with potential violence should ever be mainstreamed, for the sake of others. Once the kid has been able to be in control even during disappointments, then I’m all for it, with strong big male aides.
Poor kid. They should never have arrested him. Horrible situation.
Do you people not know your State requirements for these things? Do you not read all the info posted online on the State websites? This is all readily available to anyone who bothers to know their State Government and what their taxes pay for.
Salaries, along with education requirements, are available on the NJ ED site. Every person who works for the state is listed along with their salary and other professional/personal info. Every Gov/Union Contract is readily available at least for the state of NJ. All OPRA docs are available online. All audits, etc. This is all public knowledge available to anyone to chooses to utilize it.
Just imagine if he was on an airplane.
And in many districts back then all they needed were a heartbeat. Times have changed in many areas in this Country. Imagine that.
*Oppositional Defiance Disorder*
It’s not new.
Oh how I wish the parents of these kids would homeschool.
Then the one who paddled him would get sued. Yay for lawyers and all the great laws we have. RME
You people are so silly. You promote the same thing you fight depending on your feelings.
Oh my gosh. Nothing about that child that a trip to the woodshed wouldn’t cure? I had so much respect for you on the abortion threads. Lost almost all of it from what you say here.
I used to get nasty comments trying stupidly* to bring my son with autism to family holidays and parties, and he couldn’t cope. One uncle hissed to me that “all that boy needed was a good spanking with a belt.” I told him what I am telling you now.
YOU CAN BEAT A LITTLE CHILD WITH AUTISM UNTIL THEY DIE FROM IT and it wouldn’t fix them. They can’t “learn” or be “taught a lesson” from being hit. They don’t respond the way other children would. You can’t beat the brain dysfunction out of them.
I don’t see how someone who cares for infants the way you seem to can be so hateful against children with disabilities. I will choose to believe someone broke into your FR account because this just doesn’t compute.
*The correct thing to do, 20-20 hindsight for anyone who is in this situation, is to get a beloved babysitter and leave the autistic child at home when there are holiday parties. They would rather be in familiar surroundings with familiar toys. And you can see your extended family. At the time I wanted my only child to experience holidays the way we did. Doesn’t work for everyone.
You haven’t heard of it because you don’t pay attention except to post threads about the latest sensational crap. It’s not new. It’s been around for decades. It came before the term Reactive Attachment Disorder.
I give up. Most of you people complaining about all this stuff are the same people who demanded our government and government institutions do something about every little thing. And now we have this clusterfuck. And you wonder why? Seriously. You demanded it and still demand it. Somebody has to be held responsible and pay for it. The airlines who remove disruptive passengers, or they remove disruptive passengers and you don’t like that, the airlines who require a dress code for people flying on employee perks then won’t let those who violate the dress code fly or airlines that try to follow their rules then a mom with kids break those rules and support suing them. Schools that have rules then enforce those rules, or don’t enforce them, sue them. Or blame the aides, paraprofessionals, admin, teachers, whenever it suits your propose/agenda.
The funniest thing is no viable solution is ever offered. Just bitch and complain without having to do anything that fixes it.
You don’t hate to admit it. Just admit it. You’re embarassed to admit that you want special ed kids out of public school.You don’t think Down Syndrome kids should be in public school. But only the ones who shouldn’t be there. LMAO.The parents should homeschool.
Shouldn’t all parents who care about their kids homeschool? Or just the ones you don’t think belong in public school?
Oh my this thread is illuminating.
It would be nice if parents parented their kids.
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