When a grade has a lot of challenging kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly this is how public school kids learn resilience.

Private school kids don’t have the opportunity to do so since they are in homogeneous classrooms with similarly abled peers.

There are not enough eye rolls in the world to adequately address this comment.

[Anonymous]

Is it 4th grade? 4th grade was the first year back after Covid and has the one-two punch of (1) kids who never went to preschool so they've been a year behind in socialization skills since the start and (2) a lot of "redshirted" kids whose parents held them back a year because they knew they couldn't handle online kindergarten. A LOT of these kids have IEPs or 504s or learning/behavior challenges that are not documented. It's a lot for teachers and admin to handle because it makes the classes extra large. Every grade in my child's school has three classes except 4th which has 4 classes and 5th which has 2 classes.