Para got punished for having a chair thrown at them.
So we had a student transfer to our school mid year after getting expelled from a neighboring district for violent behavior. Recently they threw a chair at one of our paras. The para basically said “Don’t you dare throw that chair at me.” The whole thing got written up, and later the student claimed that the para “triggers” them.
After that the para suddenly got reassigned. They were told they had to leave their actual 1:1 student every day starting 5th hour, which leaves that student with no one except another para who already has their own 1:1. Then they have to go over to the elementary school and work as a general ed para for the rest of the day. No explanation, no conversation, nothing. They only found out the supposed reason through rumors. When they asked admin, all they got was “the decision came from above” and that was it.
What makes it even weirder is that the para still works in the same classroom with the student before 5th hour all the time, and there have been zero issues since the chair incident. So if this was really about safety, none of it makes sense.
And honestly this is just part of a bigger problem. SpecEd is clearly not a priority in this building. There has not been a certified teacher in that classroom until 5th hour for the entire year. Parents are being told that one para is the 1:1 for both students who's IEP actually require their own dedicated para and that a teacher is in the room all day. None of that is true.
It feels like the para got punished for having a chair thrown at them, the kids are not getting the support they are legally supposed to have, and the school is pretending everything is fine.
The para was effectively disciplined for being the victim, removed from their assignment without explanation and placed in a unwanted role unrelated to their position all while the needs of two students requiring 1:1 support are not being met.