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Originally Posted by driveway
This being the first school shooting since I became a teacher, it affected me emotionally more than any other had. I wasn't sure how I'd feel today, substituting for a Grade 2 class.
Everything was going very well until this incredibly sweet little girl came back from lunch crying. She then began to violently and compulsively scratch her hand and, after we spoke for awhile, confessed that ongoing issues with her brother and sister make her feel so angry and frustrated that she "wants to bite everyone" and then she said she wants to kill herself. She's seven and she's expressing suicidal thoughts.
She compulsively scratched her hand for the rest of the day. I spoke to everyone I should have, did everything I was supposed to do, everyone who needs to know does and hopefully she'll get the help she needs.
But I'm just the substitute, I don't know if I'll ever find out if she's okay, or if any follow up has been done, or if I should even be given any of that information if she does or does not. I may never teach her or see her again.
Friggin' sucks.
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That's terrible. You should report that to someone.
My sister was a teacher's aid for kids with emotional problems and she once asked a 9 year old what he hoped to learn this year in school and he said that he hoped to learn how to commit suicide.