Re: Any suggestions for dealing with an ODD child?

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ODD kids? Odd kids? LOL
IMHO only about 5% of kids who allegedly have ODD really do. The
rest are just spoiled.

On 6/24/11, run! wrote:
> I have about six kids in my class with this disorder. A few
> are on medication, most are not. I teach general ed. LRE in
> this situation does not work. My advice is to insist that
> you make it know to your admins that you will not deal with
> more than one ODD kid each year. If they see you doing a
> good job with one, they'll give them all to you bceause you
> can handle it. ODD kids seem to be coming out of the
> woodwork. Every year, we get more and more.
>
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> On 6/14/11, J in PA wrote:
>> HELP! I have a child coming into my Kindergarten classroom
>> next year with oppositional defiant disorder. I'm already
>> having nightmares and missing my sweet, sweet class that
>> just walked out the door. I'm particularly concerned about
>> starting off the year right.

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