Day 3 and I want to quit.

Our Admin switched classes around the night before school started. I looked at my roster and saw I have a student with extreme behavior problems. The class next to me has all the SPED kids and therefore receives extra support. My support is out indefinitely. Admin gave a list to the teacher next to me and sat for a couple hours to discuss behaviors. All she did for me was say “here’s your class; here is the typical behaviors” and then poof! I’m so pissed.

Monday rolls around and I got THAT student. He should have a behavior IEP but doesn’t. Refuses to work; will scream and cry when he doesn’t want to work; needs a break and then refuses to leave the break area. Day one he threw scissors at me. Screamed in the face of another student. Also hit another student, Day 2: Asked him to sit up in a chair and he threw a fit; passed the table he was at and pinned another student against the wall with the table. Swing around pencils bins with scissors. Got a fidget from special Ed. Uses it to pretend to shoot the other kids.

Today he had to be escorted out of the classroom by admin after screaming on the floor for 30 minutes. The other students don’t feel safe around him. I don’t feel safe around him. We don’t have a SPED teacher; and my boss rarely comes to the rescue when you ask. I’ve gotten to the point already where I want to tell the other kids to please tell your parents so they can complain. We have a meeting for them these next weeks to see if they are eligible for services but idk if I can take another day of screaming, throwing items, and overall just disrupting. I’ve decide I am just going to let them sit all day and do nothing.

Admins response to me after his freak out : “Do you have a calm down corner?” “Does he have a behavior chart?”

It’s day 3! I barely had to time to think. I don’t feel supported. I am just completely overwhelmed.

UPDATE: Thank you for all the support and the different strategies. I appreciate you all. It is nice to know you aren’t only one and have people empathizing with you. Bless you all!!

I had such support from fellow teachers today who just saw me struggling with this student. I am documenting everything. Today was a good day. We really made some growth. Let’s hope the rest of the school year goes a little more positive. Also a good nights sleep and realizing I’m not alone but have other teacher (even if they aren’t at my school) who support me is such a blessing.