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> fear of going home Anyone who doesn't see this as a sign of abuse is an idiot. I could have sugar-coated that, but some things need to be said outright. (I
by cbd1984 12y ago
> fear of going home
Anyone who doesn't see this as a sign of abuse is an idiot.
I could have sugar-coated that, but some things need to be said outright.
(It's not a surefire sign of abuse, but if it doesn't qualify as a strong piece of evidence to you, your brain is not working correctly.)
- vertex-four 12y agoNobody wants to see abuse - humans rationalise it as something that happens far away from them, not something that happens to people they interact with on a daily basis.
- delish 12y agoYou don't have to be a superhuman listener to hear what's being said when a student looks you in the eye with tears and says, "I don't wanna go home." But you do have to be a superhuman listener when you have a thousand things on your mind, several students out of arm's reach yelling at each other, some students leaving the building without permission and without bus passes, etc etc--and then you see a marooned student who looks like he/she doesn't want to go home. Ultimately, if you're working one-on-one with a student who says he/she doesn't want to go home, in theory all you have to be is caring and curious, to help. But when you're in a public or charter school and you're always occupied you'll benefit from training (in e.g. crisis prevention), and sensitization to those key phrases. Those two things plus experience lead to intuition.