Background - I was a special education teacher at a juvenile detention facility within a maximum correctional facility in Golden, Colorado, for two years. I was tasked with starting a self-contained program for the most severe, disruptive, and violent students at the facility who qualified for special education services. Charlie
Mathew (pseudonym) was a sixth-grade student in a self-contained classroom in a small rural town in Colorado. He was approximately eleven years old and had been placed in the self-contained setting due to significant behavioral concerns. Mathew frequently took on the persona of a cat—scratching the
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