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We need to get back to a safer school atmosphere....for all. Students pushing, biting, and scratching teachers with no consequences is NOT OK. It is NOT OK for behaviorally challenged students to continue to hurt others and disrupt the learning of a majority of students on a daily basis. The students with these behaviors need help!!! Mental illness is real and needs to be addressed in our young people. More social workers, guidance counselors and teachers trained in challenging behaviors need to be in our schools assisting our classroom teachers. We have to teach our students that their choices affect others either in positive or negative ways and there are consequences. This is a life skill...and one they will need the most as they go through life. Decision makers need to be in our classrooms and schools and should not have the right to make decisions until they have physically been in our buildings.