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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PreK is where kids learn to be social and act like a friend. Totally normal. It is abnormal if the teachers do not intervene and teach the kids to get along.[/quote]

The ganging up and picking a consistent target it pretty unusual for PK. I would suspect there is a ringleader, that's usually how it happens at that age. I am shocked the teacher isn't aggressively intervening specifically and with SEL content for the class. There was a kid in one of my children's PK classes that clearly had ADHD and so caused problems for other kids. He wasn't mean, but he was very impulsive, somewhat aggressive, loud, etc. Teacher was totally on it, but this was clearly a kid who need medication at a young age, if I'm being honest, so her efforts were only 75% successful. Understandably the other kids got annoyed and starting being mean to him. Even there, where the "meanness" was understandable, the teacher aggressively tamped down on it with a huge SEL focus, rewarding of kindness, explaining differences in personalities and how brains worked were often beyond our control like physical differences, etc. Behavior was basically eliminated in a month. Kids parroted back the teachers words to explain all sorts of unwelcome behaviors other people did. It was really impressive. (Btw kid is now -- educated guess, post-medication, since there was a lightswitch period -- a completely well behaved kid a few years later.)[/quote]

Ganging up? No that’s not normal. The teacher sounds like she can’t handle the kids. I sent my kids to private preschool and “ganging up” would not have been allowed.[/quote]

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