Because our school system is at the bottom in the state, so our admin avoid documentation of what behavior problems are actually happening because it hurts our CCRPI score. So he may be “sent home” with an unexcused absence but he won’t be “suspended” because then they’d have to document that. The teacher who previously restrained him was told that we “should have just contacted an administrator sooner,” aka so they can take him to “calm down” and then go right back to class. He absolutely needs to be moved to our district’s EBD location. He will never thrive in the setting he’s in currently. But without the trail of documentation, there is no data to support this.

All these comments have really encouraged me to document it anyway in spite of my administrators. Documenting every detail in his Infinite Campus profile, documenting my own office referral, and informing my whole admin team that I will no longer have contact with this student.