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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not surprised by it anymore.  [b]Teachers can do next to nothing about it.  So many kids have X, Y or Z going on that hasn't been addressed.   Or parents who defend their kids no matter what.  Or kids who have gotten away with crap this long so why change?[/b]

DS was relieved in HS when he had a couple of teachers who would send the disruptive ones wherever (one kid to the principal, another to their support person, it was pre-arranged)   and carry on teaching.  [/quote]

+1.  Our school's administrators have also said it's been worse since Covid.  It's like parents just abdicated parenting and teaching appropriate behaviors, and I'm not just talking poor families, this is a good school in a well-off area.  It also sounds like in the last two years a lot more young kids (and by that I mean tweens) have gotten access to social media, YouTube and other platforms with content not appropriate for them.  It all adds up.

God bless the teachers.  [b]I'd be the teacher sending your child to the office every single time, and emailing you every single time until at some point you decided to engage and get your child whatever help they need.  Enough with disrupting the education of everyone else.[/b]
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I'm the PP you quoted.  First of all, thank you for that.  Some teachers don't have supportive admin though.

I recall one principal in our Elementary school.  Unruly kid was spitting, screaming and hitting.  He went down to the hallway where the kid was, scooped him up  and carried him to the office.  Kid was kicking and screaming " you can't touch me!"  Principal:  " you aren't supposed to hit people either, but you did."  Kid was actually suspended, with his mother spluttering about having to work.  Nobody cared.  He came back with a behavior contract in place 🙄.   However, that piece of paper allowed for him to be removed from the classroom with the requirement that he be picked up in 30 minutes or suspended again.  He went home (or to whoever) a few times before things started to change.[/quote]

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