There is a crisis in U. S. schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will add that as an elementary school teacher, I saw the breakdown in behavior at school take off with Trump’s election, the ballooning use of cell phones by kids, and all of the TV shows where people are publicly graded or shamed or told they don’t measure up. I started hearing elementary school kids say disgusting things to their peers and think that it was funny. It was alarming and sad to see.

Of course you did.

+1 it is true. We had to tell our kids over and over that the behavior and language they were hearing from Trump was inappropriate and they'd be in trouble if they behaved that way. Kids mirror what they see.

Please. As if Brain dead Bidumb hasn't said and done inappropriate actions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many kids (especially boys) with severe behavior problems these days? No, it’s not autism or developmental delays - my 2nd grade DS’s class has 4 boys with special behavioral charts, special “plans,” etc. and from the volunteering I’ve done in the classroom all 4 of them appear to be on grade level in terms of the work. One boy has such severe ADHD that he needs an aide to help him in pretty much all individual work. 2 boys have violent outbursts and one of them spits when he’s angry, and the other kid has a special “calming journal” and gets to leave the classroom to “take a walk” when he needs it. Yes there are also I would say 3 kids who are obviously behind academically in his class but they are sweet kids with no serious behavioral problems. I’m a Millennial who was in elementary school in the early and mid 90s and I don’t remember it being this bad in terms of kids with serious emotional regulation problems? The teachers and schools really seem to be trying as best they can but … seriously how did this all start? I really don’t think it was Covid because they went to K in fall of 2021 when schools were already open. They’re getting lots of phonics-based reading instruction. This is FCPS at an overall middle class ES.

I think when you (and I) were in school in the 90s, kids with behavioural problems were in sped classrooms and not allowed to do work at grade level.

I thought the special needs classrooms when we were kids were reserved for kids who had Downs Syndrome, were non-speaking, my cousin was in one because he had a stroke in utero and he had some developmental problems as a result. I don’t know, I remember behavioral problems in the classroom when I was a kid of course. I grew up in an overall lower middle class area with some pockets of real poverty. But the problems were like, kids fighting and stealing from each other. Maybe I’m misremembering and there were kids back then with their own behavioral plans and the school just hid it better. I do remember a few kids being quite behind in terms of the academics and that seems to be the same these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will add that as an elementary school teacher, I saw the breakdown in behavior at school take off with Trump’s election, the ballooning use of cell phones by kids, and all of the TV shows where people are publicly graded or shamed or told they don’t measure up. I started hearing elementary school kids say disgusting things to their peers and think that it was funny. It was alarming and sad to see.

Of course you did.

+1 it is true. We had to tell our kids over and over that the behavior and language they were hearing from Trump was inappropriate and they'd be in trouble if they behaved that way. Kids mirror what they see.

Please. As if Brain dead Bidumb hasn't said and done inappropriate actions.

Your language right here is what’s wrong. Why say “ brain dead bidumb”. That sounds mean and juvenile. We want to teach our children to acknowledge differences of opinion in a more mature and intelligent way. You could have said “ well, Biden has made his share of inappropriate comments too.”

If we don’t do better how will we teach our children. I would have immediately corrected my dcs from saying “ brain dead” and bidumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will add that as an elementary school teacher, I saw the breakdown in behavior at school take off with Trump’s election, the ballooning use of cell phones by kids, and all of the TV shows where people are publicly graded or shamed or told they don’t measure up. I started hearing elementary school kids say disgusting things to their peers and think that it was funny. It was alarming and sad to see.

Of course you did.

+1 it is true. We had to tell our kids over and over that the behavior and language they were hearing from Trump was inappropriate and they'd be in trouble if they behaved that way. Kids mirror what they see.

Please. As if Brain dead Bidumb hasn't said and done inappropriate actions.

It's the kids these days who are the problem and not the adults. Sure.