He comes to school angry, makes racist comments and is disruptive. Howshould his behaviour and comments be dealt with?
A social worker who worked with him tells how she dealt with thesituation.
- Four years ago I was working as a social worker helping to promote theeducational attainment of looked-after children. I had to deal with a13-year-old boy who was making racist comments, swearing, and beingaggressive when he turned up to school one morning.
He started to attack some of the other children. I had worked with himfor some time and I had not known him to be like this before. It turnedout he had been mugged at the weekend by a gang of Asian boys.
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