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I used to volunteer in ES, pre-Chromebooks. Or at least when Chromebooks were used more sparingly. I saw all the other behaviors you mention, in certain classrooms but not most. I can believe it’s worse now, though, because after the Covid lockdowns, there is what I believe to be a mis-used emphasis on “mental health”, which in practice has come to mean a highly self-driven, child-led approach. Except that this does not work with 30 kids! It works in a household with 1-3 kids. Group discipline is not the same as individual discipline.

I have a senior and a 7th grader. In high school, consequences are largely natural: you pay attention, work hard, get good grades, get into a good college. The ones who go off the rails are not getting into college. Middle school is the worse: kids are bigger, experiment with adult behaviors, but are not faced with adult consequences. You have to be a special human to teach middle school! Some find… creative ways to control their class, others act like they prison wardens, and a few just give up discipline altogether.

So yes, I sympathize. [/quote]

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