Second year teaching

Hi everyone! I’m a second grade teacher in Texas. This upcoming school year will be my second year. My first year I was given a high needs student and I felt confident. He had high functioning autism but he was sweet and remorseful if he bad behavior.

There was a student in first grade who every second teacher was afraid to get. Every day he would be in the hallway screaming and cursing out admin/aid. His first grade teacher seemed defeated and at a loss of what to do. He bites, hits, kicks. Not only admin but also students.

When I would go out for car pick up after school he would be in every child’s face breaking boundaries and doing whatever he wanted in the field. At one point he was saying the N word with a hard R, and telling the principal to off herself.

That all being said, all last school year we were wary of getting him. I found out he will be my student. I’m really nervous and upset. I know this is the reality of teaching in this day and age, unfortunately. I don’t think I can take physical abuse from a student.

I am in a union.