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BTF Demands Mandatory Intervention Services for Disruptive/Suspended Students Mandatory Intervention Services for Students Seeking to Learn DEDICATION SOLIDARITY February 2020 PROFESSIONALISM OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION VOLUME 50/NUMBER 3 PRIDE SECOND TO NONE BTF Demands Mandatory Intervention Services for Disruptive/Suspended Students Mandatory intervention services for students seeking to learn. we must begin in the early grades”, Rumore suspended students is being demanded Phil said that there is “apparently a said. by the Buffalo Teachers Federation after a directive from the District to lower the “The Superintendent and Board of teacher survey on school safety and learning suspension rates”. As a result, many Education must immediately approve and conditions was deemed “disturbing.” administrators are returning disruptive implement a policy requiring that suspended A resolution calling for the services was students to the classroom or fail to report students receive the intervention services unanimously approved by the BTF Council of suspensions. of trained pupil personnel, e.g. school Delegates. It calls for additional hiring of pupil “Everyone wants to reduce suspensions; counselors, school social workers, school personnel so caseloads do not exceed 100:1. however, just sending a student back psychologists, school attendance teachers, In a January 17 press conference, BTF to class after the student has started a etc. and community/government partners. President Phil Rumore said intervention fight, threatened to hurt a student, bullied (The survey responses can be found services are needed to address behavioral a student, cursed at the teacher, hit the at www.btfny.org/pressrelease/2020/dis_ issues and prevent student suspensions. teacher, continued to disrupt the class, etc., survey_responses.pdf.) He said a survey of teachers indicated sends the message to the other students that immediate action is necessary. the behavior is acceptable. This invariably “The very disturbing response from leads to other students adopting the hundreds of teachers (749), from 61 of the disruptive behavior and most feeling unsafe. 76 schools/sites over a short period of time, Ultimately, someone gets hurt – usually a is an urgent call for immediate action by student”, Rumore said. the Superintendent and Board of Education He said some school districts are using to ensure that suspended students are Restorative Justice/Practices to defuse provided with intervention services to resolve disruptive student behavior and the program and correct the issues that gave rise to the is beginning to be implemented in some suspension”, stated Rumore. Buffalo Public Schools. However, teachers The survey, which questioned teachers are concerned there is insufficient training, on school climate, student behavior, and insufficient principal support and insufficient discipline, indicated that improvement is time in the day to implement it with fidelity. needed in all areas. “We must work together to ensure that Only 17% of respondents said that our students’ learning environment and student discipline problems are dealt with safety are not compromised by disruptive quickly and appropriately, while 83% said student behaviors while also working with the disruptive student behavior is leading to disruptive students to find the cause of and ABOVE: With cameras rolling, BTF President Phil unacceptable learning conditions for the how to correct the disruptive behaviors and Rumore stresses the need for intervention services. BTF Resolution Seeks Intervention Services In reference to the issues raised by the behavior, suspensions must require District- attendance teachers, school psychologists teacher survey, the BTF Executive Committee provided intervention(s); and and/or other trained providers to work with and Council of Delegates (elected school WHEREAS, Said intervention(s) involves the that student, and if necessary, his/her family, representatives), unanimously passed the resources of trained pupil personnel, e.g. school so that the behavior that led to the suspension following resolution: counselors, school social workers, school ends, and the student and other students can WHEREAS, Buffalo teachers are seeing a psychologists, school attendance teachers, etc. succeed; and significant increase in student behaviors that and community/government partners; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the are detrimental to student learning and school WHEREAS, The caseload of trained pupil Board of Education, to ensure that the required safety; and personnel employees is, instead of 100:1, often intervention services are provided to suspended WHEREAS, Suspension alone, in most 800:1 or more; and students, establish caseloads for the above cases, does not address the underlying cause WHEREAS, It is the District’s responsibility named District providers of no more than 100:1; of the detrimental student behavior; and to ensure that suspension necessarily entails and WHEREAS, The District, in order to reduce intervention(s). BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the suspensions, must not focus on the number of THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board/School District will continue and expand suspensions, it must focus on the behavior(s) Buffalo School Board/District will ensure that its outreach to city, state and local agencies that that resulted in each suspension; and, every student suspension requires the student can provide said intervention services; and WHEREAS, Buffalo teachers, while being to receive the intervention services of school BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That very concerned about the student behavior that counselors, school social workers, school henceforth the designation “Suspension/District is detrimental to student learning and school intervention(s)” will be used and implemented. safety, also believe that to end said student 1 disruptive students to find the cause of how to correct the disruptive behavior and BTF at a Glance we must begin in the early grades. When a student is suspended, the BTF President District must be required to provide the Philip Rumore intervention services of trained pupil BTF Vice President Rebecca Pordum personnel, e.g. school counselors, school BTF Treasurer social workers, school psychologists, Joseph Montante attendance teachers, etc. and community/ BTF Secretary government partners. Melinda MacPherson-Sullivan Just sending a student home who has BTF Executive Committee Members committed an act of violence, threatened a student or the teacher, etc. only to have Pre-K-6 that student returned, does nothing to Rachel Binda-Lis, April Hall, Sophia Howard-Johnson, correct the behavior and sends the wrong Trisha Rosokoff, Janine Schuster, message to the rest of the students. Ruyvette Townsend The district must be required to provide an intervention. 7-12 And yes, caseloads of as many as Dennis Brancato, Patrick Foster, 800/1, being required to do extracurricular Lynn Garcia, Melissa Kenney, tasks, walk the halls with a walkie-talkie, M. Sue Raichilson, Chris Salamone, Eve Shippens-Nieves complete paperwork for an administrator, etc. must end. Caseloads of our school K-12 “WE CAN NOT counselors, school social workers, Susan Baker, Amy Flynn, AND psychologists, attendance teachers etc. Nicole Herkey, Ellen Malone, WILL NOT BE SILENT” needs to be lowered to 100/1 at most. Mark Mecca, Gregory Sawicki, We will be working on all levels - local, Elizabeth Spiro-Carman Where, as our recent survey of teachers state, and federal to ensure that districts At Large shows: are required to provide intervention to Tom Anthony, Marc Bruno, • 83.00% of the teachers responded suspended students and that there are Mike Mecca that disruptive student behavior is leading penalties for districts who do not. BTF Headquarters Staff to unacceptable learning conditions for the From now on when someone Philip Rumore, President students seeking to learn. complains about or covers up Joseph Montante, Presidential Assistant • 21.96% of the respondents suspensions, the response must be “Do Rebecca Pordum, Presidential Assistant report that disruptive student behavior you mean that you don’t want to work with Tim Connick, NYSUT Counsel “Is almost out of control leading to Jenna Burke, NYSUT Labor Relations the students and if necessary their families Specialist increased disruptive student behavior to help the students so that the detrimental Matthew Kibler, NYSUT Labor Relations and unacceptable learning conditions” behavior no longer occurs?” Specialist and disruptive student behavior is “Out of Robert Mueller, NYSUT Labor Relations Control”. “WE CAN NOT Specialist • I believe that Discipline and AND Visit Our Updated Website Suspensions are Underreported in my www.btfny.org school WILL NOT o 71.79% of the respondents agree. BE SILENT” • 69.00% Reported that an When our students were denied admission to the Erie County BTF Provocator Staff Administrator does not discuss, as Joseph Montante, managing editor, photo editor required by our contract, how a student’s Interscholastic Conference (ECIC), we Chris Salamone, editor behavior can be expected to improve threatened legal action, issued press The Provocator is the official publication of the statements, held a solidarity day, passed Buffalo Teachers Federation. It will be published five times before returning the student to the during the 2019-2020 school year as a service to BTF teacher’s class. a motion (unanimously) to continue to members and interested parties in the community. Subscription price is included in BTF dues. organize and prepare for legal action on Postmaster, send address changes to: behalf of any of our teams/organizations
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