I teach life skills but due to lack of resources the class is essentially a mixture of mostly well behaved autistic kids and well behaved kids with more severe intellectual issues, filled out with the worst behaved kids in the school. In practice this means the kids with special needs are just getting sucked punched, tackled, kicked, etc several times a day by the same few kids. No amount of suspensions, Principal visits, officer interventions, etc are really working.
Heartbreaking and ideally this won't be too long term for me. At the same time, I love every single one of them and that's what brings me back each day. Lots of really shitty home lives these kids are dealing with and it's easy to tell how much you mean to some of them.