When the Cops Are Called to Your Classroom....

In my fifth grade classroom I have a plethora of personalities. Mostly the usual kind, the quiet kids, the loud kids, the dumb kids, the smart kids....and then I have student #25 (I'm using a number to keep his identity private). #25 has severe ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) and is a pathological liar. This means that he doesn't do anything you ask him to, lies aobut everything and is violent. At any given time he'll start to throw pencils at other children, tear up his books, smash his desk/chair into other kids, cry, slap other kids with pieces of paper, and make ridiculously loud farting noises. Anything can set him off...and I do mean anything. Sometimes it'll be that he just doesn't like what we're doing and other times we'll simply ask him to do something and he goes off the deep end. To give you a clearer picture of how he acts on a day to day basis, I'll give you a couple of examples. One day we were passing out math tests, some were purple and some were white (there was no difference between the two other than color). When we handed him a puple one, he took it, slashed it across his neighbors face and then proceeded to rip it up. Today, we read aloud a short book on fossils and then asked the students to write three things that they learned. He raised his hand, so I went over to his desk to presumably answer his question. He told me that he needed help because he didn't listen to the story so he didn't know what to write down. I told him that he should have been listening and I'm not going to just give him the answers. In response, he tore apart his reading book and started throwing things at other children. Most of the time we just ignore him, but as soon as he starts endangering other kids, we call the office. Well, last week he started throwing one of his fits. He didn't want to take his spelling test, so he started freaking out. When he threw a book at another child, we called the Assist. Principle to come down. She came down and tried to reason with him, which wasn't successful. Then the counselor came in to try to talk him down, and he still didn't care. Finally the Head Principle came in and gave him his choices. He refused to go down to the office and stop throwing things. The Principle then called the police....yes, she really called the cops. Apparently there is a special officer who deals directly with students, mostly middle school and high school but occasionally elementary students. We had to then evacuate the students out of the classroom and wait for the officer to remove #25. The officer "escorted" #25 to the office where his parents were called. I was shocked because I'd never even heard of a cop coming to an elementary school but it does make since when you think about it. #25 is bigger than me so there would be no possible way for me to ever subdue him. I guess though, its just another exciting day in grade school!