Curious - are there several disruptive children in your kid's class, by chance?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]"However, by not answering these basic questions it simply demonstrates your premises are empty and that you are not willing to either examine or judge your family by your own standards. "

Is this a deposition or a blog?

Good question.

I think we have the parent of one those disruptive kids with us. [/quote]

The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Anonymous]

The problem is ONLY going to get worse, not better. At least public schools have a solution for this.....special needs classrooms. Are private schools going to pull their weight with special needs kids any time soon?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The first school sounds like our school. I don't want to out the school, because we liked it over all. But is the first letter of the school a "G"? (Hopefully that narrows it down to a handful of schools, without actually naming the school.)[/quote]

Sounds like our school, too, but doesn't start with "G." Starts with "W" which might be even broader than "G."

I've got to say that I just don't understand why schools slough this stuff off thinking that the grapevine doesn't exist.

[Anonymous]

I am a parent of a special needs child and believe that many parents of SN kids (especially if the child has ADHD issue versus more global developmental challenges) self-select into private schools especially if they can afford it. Unless there is a impact of the ADHD on measurable academic progress, the child probably will not get accommodations on the IEP so the child in those circumstances would be better served in a small classroom setting (i.e. private/ parochial). Many parents know this and seek out privates for that reason.

[Anonymous]

To 12:43, most of the children these posts refer to would not receive placement in a self-contained special needs classroom in a public school. Public schools are legally required to place children in the least restrictive environment which for the ADHD kids usually(not always) means a regular education setting, possibly with supports in place. Only after that type of setting has failed the child in supporting academic progress would the child be placed in a special needs classroom. So I don't think the "solution" you refer to is a solution

[Anonymous]

We had that experience at the "W" school. It never got any better. We left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had that experience at the "W" school. It never got any better. We left.

WES?

[Anonymous]

Norwood weeds, unless the child is from BIG money or a teacher's child.
For the most part, the money kids behave.

[Anonymous]

Washington Episcopal--That's Our School!!!

[Anonymous]

15:22: I disagree wholeheartedly. Norwood does NOT weed, and you even say so with your "BIG money" and "teacher's child" examples. That can make up a significant number of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washington Episcopal--That's Our School!!!

Not mine. But hey, this seems to be a widespread problem.

[Anonymous]

Not mine either. Nor does it start with "G."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washington Episcopal--That's Our School!!!

I heard that one child was injured at WES because of a disruptive child that the school did not "weed out." Could just be a rumor though.

[Anonymous]

We have a small handful of disruptive boys in my child's classroom. From what I've observed, the parents are the problem. Way too many "boys will be boys" platitudes. In fact a mother of one of these little darlings went so far as to say "he's so competitive" when her son was on one of his typical rampages.

[Anonymous]

Our school isn't a W or a G. We were very close to leaving when two families let it be known that they were leaving. The kids were bad influences on each other and I think the parents finally caught on.