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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in an elementary school. Parents have never been more resistant to limits being placed on their children under any circumstances. Children are more fragile and less resilient as a result. Things that are tolerated in our school because teachers are tired of the fights with parents and therefore admins:

Kids can eat snacks at any time of the day in the classroom. They often just get up and go get them out of their locker. It could be right after lunch, right after arrival, in the middle of a lesson, etc. Even with a built-in snack time for an upper elementary grade, we are discouraged from disallowing this at any time of the day.

Kids frequently get up and pop out of the classroom without asking to go to the bathroom, get something out of their locker etc...

Kids have "fidgets," aka toys at their desk all day (rubics cubes, therapy putty, pop-its, stuffed toys). You risk parent anger and admin admonishment if you require the children to put their "comfort objects," in their locker. Or even limit it to just one during class. Yes, some children have this as an accommodation. But this does not mean every child has a stuffed toy, keychain, pop-it, and putty all on one desk.

Kids often bring huge pencil bags of multiple pencils/pens/colored pencils into class and spend instruction time drawing. Sometimes it is okay, but many kids are doing it all day long.

Kids are impulsive and compulsive with the Chrome book. Unless you have GoGuardian on constantly, the children will be off task on Nearpod (to look at You Tube), and many many other sites. Even with many different tech limits placed on sites they can go to they will open Google slides/docs/etc and compulsively insert images and pictures. It's endless.

We are not allowed to ask children to take down their hoods (comfort object).

Don't even get into the misery involved in trying to give a kid a grade lower than a B, or ask/guide a child to apologize to another child, reward anyone for doing homework lest it upset those that don't do their homework, etc...

Students talk over their teachers, call out answers, and expect to have all their thoughts listened to whenever they are ready to share them.

I am not a full-time classroom teacher, but rather a teacher that frequently pushes into many different classrooms and I see this all over the school with many different teachers. It isn't just a classroom management issue. To those parents out there who are teaching their kids they should be able to eat/drink/take a break outside the classroom at any time, use the Chromebook as they please, never apologize or make amends for bad choices, never be required or even encouraged to complete homework, and basically never be told no or be made to feel uncomfortable or unhappy ever for any reason....you may be making life easier for yourself right now, but we will ALL regret it someday including your kids.[/quote]

Please name the school or the HS/pyramid.

Is this behavior uniform across the board or do you see any trends? [/quote]

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