Cracked.com article on working with "Disturbed Children

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It should be noted that cracked.com is really low-quality journalism. The article seems to argue that the people with the worst behavioral problems are hopeless and always dangerous and people who work in residential facilities are victims.
Two questions come to mind. If someone has so many other behavioral problems, why the hell are they so worried about teaching the sign language for pleased.
Why did a kid who self-injures have a hammer in the first place?
http://www.donotlink.com/bkg0

Just about every situation with a power imbalance has problems with rape and abuse (churches, schools, prisons, etc.). Is it so difficult to believe it's common here?

I think this article is more eye-opening http://timetolisten.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... nally.html

I don't believe Cracked.com is striving to be high-quality journalism -- it's a humor site.

as one of those 'low functioning handicapped' kids they talk about,find the article to be incredibly stigmatising and fear mongering of us,plus its portraying us as a burden on society;this is backward thinking but have heard it all before.
they talk about behaviors as if theyre unpredictible without cause-there are reasons for all behaviors including in those who have the EBD diagnosis and it is very unfair to stigmatising those of us with challenging behavior further by demeaning our existance in this damning article.

the article gives a clear feeling that theyd rather we were all locked up behind closed doors again like not that long ago when society coudnt bare to associate with us.
ignorance,and prejudice as usual rears its ugly head.

I made a blog post about that article: http://icneurodiversity.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-ableist-abuse-condoning-cracked.html

Wow, that article is sure frightening and sadly there are kids out there who are like that. I know from experience and have known people who got abused by one. I met a stranger who had a broken arm from a student and he said it was an accident. Who knows how it happened. The kid could have been playing and broke his arm or get got angry and did something and it broke his arm. He wouldn't go into detail and I assume it was for liability. My mom used to get abused by an autistic child and she had to take self defense courses for it and the boy was six. I knew an AS boy who was violent and Mom and I stopped letting him come over and he had been in the hospital several times. He happened to have ODD. He may have had a conduct disorder. Plus I knew a boy in my class when I was six and he liked hurting other kids, pinching was one of them and he would always make up an excuse why he did it. One time he got in trouble for throwing chairs and was in the office all day long. It was a one time thing he did luckily.

This article sounded real than a joke. Maybe because I know there are people out there who are actually like this and the personal stories I have heard and the media. And my school wanted to put me in a behavior program and my parents said no to that and got a lawyer and my AS diagnoses stopped them from doing it too. That program would have taught me to be violent because I always copied people and I would have been exposed to it and see it as normal behavior and I may have started doing it at home before realizing school behavior. That is one of the things wrong with the program too, kids model after each other and they think punishing the child will stop the behavior. But unfortunately I don't know any other way to help them than putting them in a behavior school. I also remember my ex boyfriend telling me when he went to his special school, he knew a boy with autism and he was always in chains to keep him from harming other people and the parents went to court to get permission to do it so they won't be charged with abuse. But it sounded like a bad school anyway because they would talk down to you and talk to you like you're slow and one time he (my ex) got mad and broke a teacher's bone for it and was grounded for a month and he would be locked in a room and one time he took a dump in it because they wouldn't let him out to use the bathroom and he was made to clean it up. He knew the same AS kid too I knew and he told me what a bully he was and told me he would pick the AS boy up and toss him on the ground for self defense.

About the article - I know a girl who teaches in a residential school and she's got some horror stories from it, but also some good stories. I remember how terrified she was right before her wedding. She was scared she was going to be hit in the face again and be bruised or cut on her wedding day from it. I can't imagine having a job where I'm worried about being hit in the face, but this is what she's always wanted to do and she knew the risks involved hen she decided to do this. She says the benefits outweigh the risks, so she plans on sticking with it.

About the site - Cracked used to be a regular magazine like Mad. I used to buy it when I was a kid, along with Mad, Crazy and Sick. They were all humor and satire. I honestly wouldn't take anything seriously from Cracked, any more than I would from the Onion or Landover Baptist Church forum site.

Yes, they wrote about just the bad things in the article, but if they wrote about just the good things then nobody would read it. Bad things are seen as more interesting and exciting, so that would get readers. If the article were about "Special Needs Kids Who Are Cooperative", that ould be boring. People being cooperative is something seen every day, which is why folks would read the actual article - most people don't see violent kids every day so it's different. It's the same with news stories. People get up in arms when they see something like "Man with AS jilted by girlfriend, then kills 7 people" but would anybody read "Man with AS jilted by girlfriend, decides to move on with his life"?

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The OP is from a series of one shot articles from people who have interesting jobs. The articles in this series seem to have more of a public relations tone than warts and all honesty, but I still like em.

They tend to have a lot of insightful commentary on their podcast. I think it's the best part of their website.

http://www.cracked.com/podcast/why-peop ... book-1984/