My wife works for a school district, she's not a teacher. The setting she's in has a mix of special needs kids and kids who attend a behavior program. Basically they've been kicked of one school and are sent to another school within the district. It's pretty predictable to anyone with a lick of sense that this is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately school and district administrators lack that lick of sense.

One of the behavior kids constantly berates and insults the special needs kids. He has even figured out triggers for some of these kids to harm themselves. Hitting themselves, banging heads against walls, etc. The kid has even struck other staff members on a few occasions. My wife has reported all of this several times to her supervisors, school admin, school teacher, and parents of the bully. Nobody does anything or offers any solutions. Kids in the behavior program have an IEP, they wont show it to my wife, and they that prevents them from doing anything.

This kid does all of this intentionally. He will tell my wife who he's going to target and then proceed to do it. She can't remove him, she can't muzzle him, she can't do anything. Given that corporal punishment is off the table I have suggested that she notify parents of the victims what is being done to their kids and let them take up the fight. But my wife told that would violate privacy protections, even if she doesn't reveal the name of the aggressor.

I guess I'm mostly venting here. My wife loved her job but now she hates going. She's constantly afraid that the kid will attack her. But I am curious to know if my thinking that a kid like this has given up his right an education and should be removed is off base. Don't the parents of these victims have a right to know what's going on? Most of them are non-verbal, so they can't speak up for themselves.