The behaviors at school are AWFUL this week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I appreciate what you are saying. It doesn’t match what my kids are telling me. My daughters are very quick to complain to me about all levels of misbehavior by their peers and they haven’t said anything this week except to tell me about the movies and parties. So I don’t think it’s happening at our schools—at least not any worse than it was all year.

In general, classrooms aren’t really the issue. Buses and recess are where the real problems are, but given the staffing there, I’m not surprised. The kids at our schools really like most teachers and the teachers get their best behavior. They all seem to dislike and not respect the playground aides and bus drivers (although our school now has one playground wide that I hear is well respected and liked).

Not OP- but even your children may be acting out. You just don’t know what is going on at school. OP- I’m sorry. I do agree though it’s so late to be going to school. My HS had a tremendous number of assignments/ projects this week.

[Anonymous]

As a veteran teacher, this entire year has been harder than others. The behaviors this year were more extreme and widespread than ever before. And the disconnect from parents and school was like something I’ve never seen before.
A lot of kids dealt with trauma in 2020 and 2021. We as a system are not well informed on dealing with that trauma. We have work to do there.
The other issue I see is making up snow days at the end of the year. Historically, we miss instructional days in late 2nd and early 3rd quarter. Making them up at the end of 4th quarter does no good. Either let them be made up earlier in the year or don’t bother. Once Memorial Day hits, everyone is done and it’s a downward slide from there.
Hang in there everyone, 1.5 days to go! We got this!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a veteran teacher, this entire year has been harder than others. The behaviors this year were more extreme and widespread than ever before. And the disconnect from parents and school was like something I’ve never seen before.
A lot of kids dealt with trauma in 2020 and 2021. We as a system are not well informed on dealing with that trauma. We have work to do there.
The other issue I see is making up snow days at the end of the year. Historically, we miss instructional days in late 2nd and early 3rd quarter. Making them up at the end of 4th quarter does no good. Either let them be made up earlier in the year or don’t bother. Once Memorial Day hits, everyone is done and it’s a downward slide from there.
Hang in there everyone, 1.5 days to go! We got this!!

Thank you! --op

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

OMG OMG society in freefall decline! Maybe electing Republicans to the board of education will save us? Never mind their stance on women's health, guns, and democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is why I moved my kids to private and why they will stay there through HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

OMG OMG society in freefall decline! Maybe electing Republicans to the board of education will save us? Never mind their stance on women's health, guns, and democracy.

Op here and I'm very very much a liberal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

OMG OMG society in freefall decline! Maybe electing Republicans to the board of education will save us? Never mind their stance on women's health, guns, and democracy.

Op here and I'm very very much a liberal!

This person bringing up the BOE race all the time is comical. Ignore her. She's all over twitter trashing the newcomers to the race and all their supporters. Clearly she feels threatened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

And some kids will start school before others in August. And some schools have different breaks. This has been the case as long as there have been different schools on different calendars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

And some kids will start school before others in August. And some schools have different breaks. This has been the case as long as there have been different schools on different calendars.

This is one of the many problems with our education system, they should have synchronized calendars and schedules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

And some kids will start school before others in August. And some schools have different breaks. This has been the case as long as there have been different schools on different calendars.

This is one of the many problems with our education system, they should have synchronized calendars and schedules.

I'd like to see the focus on quality of educational instruction instead of the quantity of it. More time in the classroom doesn't equal more learning, especially in high school. There is not reason to have a seven-hour school day that goes from August to nearly the first day of summer in June. It's too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

[Anonymous]

Lack of parenting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lack of parenting

place the blame where it lies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

And some kids will start school before others in August. And some schools have different breaks. This has been the case as long as there have been different schools on different calendars.

This is one of the many problems with our education system, they should have synchronized calendars and schedules.

Nice idea but would have 0 impact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

OMG OMG society in freefall decline! Maybe electing Republicans to the board of education will save us? Never mind their stance on women's health, guns, and democracy.

Op here and I'm very very much a liberal!

That's what all the GOP operatives say...