‘You are more than your mistakes’: Teachers get at roots of bad behavior [SeattleTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/18/154:00 AM

For years, Franky Price terrified his teachers.

As a third-grader, he pantomimed killing other students by sliding his finger across his throat. In fourth grade, he swore at anyone who angered him. The worst moment came one month into fifth grade, after Franky wrote down his violent fantasies.

He never planned to act on any of them, but the behavior alarmed educators enough to get him suspended from the Clover Park School District, then expelled from Tillicum — placing him among the thousands of children statewide who are removed annually from elementary-school classrooms.

[For more of this story, written by Claudia Rowe, go to http://www.seattletimes.com/ne...ots-of-bad-behavior/]

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