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I know what you mean
By Cathy-Dee

Hi Sue

We have one in our school, this is the one I mentioned in my earlier post. I had him in grade 1, but he will be in grade 3 this year. He has been diagnosed oppositional defiant, was abused, abandoned by his mother
and is in foster care. Thankfully his foster parents are great. But he is so good at manipulating everyone around him, and it gets frustrating because he gets to us all the time and we know what he's doing, but he's so good at it we fall for his techniques too often.
We've had a couple of experts come in to talk with his current teachers and come September they have a full plan in

effect to work with him.

I applaud you for being so concerned - if your student is going to get turned around it will need to be sooner rather than later. Do you have any specialists in your area - perhaps you could get him evaluated through a school psychologist. Would his mother be on line with this? That may be the harder fight, to get her on line and helping the situation.

Good luck and keep us informed. It's been a hit and miss approach for us so far - I don't think there's any easy answers and so often there's not much help out there either for us.