Reply #35: Sorry for knowing nothing.

[passy]

I would just like to say that we are not talking about 15-17 year olds here. I did not suggest that you should handle a child that old by yourself. A five year old in an empty class room is a very different matter. You also mention that in your experience you would have enlisted the help of the school shrink, something you did not mention in your first post.
I also reacted to the way you seemed to accuse the mother for the child's condition and criticized her for not being able to come to the school quicker without knowing the facts.
If this girl already has a history of violent behavior at the age of five then this should should have been taken into account when she started at this school, but as a poster mentioned with the cuts in education being bigger and bigger mental health is one of the sectors suffering the most.