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After School Meltdowns?

Gary Direnfeld

Some kids come home after school and can’t seem to hold themselves together. There is a belief that after holding themselves together all day at school, they use home as a safe place to let it go. Maybe for some.

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School shootings and fentanyl overdoses: the uncounted costs of neglecting maltreated children

Child Welfare Monitor

We must intervene to help maltreated children before they are irrevocably damaged by years of abuse and neglect On September 4, 2024, fourteen-year-old Colt Gray shot and killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia with an AR-15 style rifle given to him by his father.

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Violence in Schools

Gary Direnfeld

I have had several messages and conversations this week about violence in schools. If your child isn’t sleeping well at night or expresses fear about attending school, that may not be anxiety as you thought. Again, ask your kid about violence literally in the classroom, let alone the school yard. They were all unrelated.

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Educational Assistants: First Responders in the School System

Gary Direnfeld

Even the school they attended was on the grounds of the treatment centre. Of course there was the promise of more money to assure appropriate supports both in their residences as well as in public schools. These were kids who due to their behavior could not be served in the community. Even some couldn’t go there.

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The Fear Wasn’t of School

Gary Direnfeld

——— The issue was the child’s fear of going to school. Her child’s fear was not about the school. Her child was not anxious about school, but her safety as she had worried about her mother. Her child did return to school. We talked about the parental relationship. She put it together.

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Educational Assistants’ Advice to Parents for the Start of School

Gary Direnfeld

2) Please know in many schools the EA is not invited to meetings regarding your child and nor do many have access to your child’s records or reports. 4) Please do not use the school as a testing ground for changes in medication, routines, food choices, etc, without first informing the EA. EAs are not there to judge.

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Back-to-School: Supporting Mental Health

Shelter, Inc

It’s that time of year when even if the weather is warm, there is a shift in the energy as families prepare for the transition from summer to back-to-school. The habits taught at home and school are building blocks to help master these developmental tasks as children get older. For some, this may be a time of excitement and intrigue.