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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's tough. I honestly don't know if my son's school is like this, but I worked at a nearby elementary and it was much like you describe. And yes, it was depressing at times. I have volunteered at my son's school and they were able to sit and listen to a story, and I haven't seen too much chaos at lunch time, but who knows.

When I was growing up... I think I seem to remember there were always THOSE problem kids. Usually kids who had severe issues or were thought to be medicated due to hyperactivity, but they were a handful of kids in the entire school and everybody knew who they were. The behavior issues seem much more widespread now, unless that's just my nostalgia.[/quote]

OP here... that's how I remember it too. There were definitely those kids, but it was the minority, not the majority.

DD's school has a number system for lunch and specials where they get X number of points based on behavior and they are constantly getting a bad score and DD gets upset about it, because then they get a consequence of some sort for the whole class and there are some that are being perfectly behaved. I've even confirmed with her teacher when we get emails about their poor lunch and specials scores. I just don't get the group punishment.

Then they had an assembly and they gave out awards and the vast majority of the awards are to the poorly behaved kids who are "getting better" (BS) in their behavior. While the kids that never rock the boat and do what they are supposed to are never recognized. I normally wouldn't care about silly school awards, but it's so odd to watch kids that I've heard are problem kids alllll year get an "award". I barely understand it as a parent, but children definitely don't. [/quote]

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