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[quote=Anonymous]At this point in the year, we're considering how to get our 6th grader at DHMS to the finish line. It's as if there's an institutional mentality of hazing the students from the teachers and staff. Passive aggressive emails from the teachers about multiple missing assignments when it turns out there have been a total of 4 assignments over the last month, emails before the end of the term about how parents should know the grade already in a class where nothing is graded online until after the term is over, students receiving wildly bad grades but no outreach to them or the parents unless the student is mature enough to address it in person with their teacher. Reading is a daily class but students are still not able to read at grade level. Emails to the students at 5pm to make sure an assignment given that day is turned in my midnight that same day. Regular errors in grading. Limited outdoor time and weeks at a time with no PE/no exercise all day. iPads on all day. It is rare that a teacher responds to an email from parents. And all the while, the students are being told that this is to prepare them for high school or that they should already be able to do whatever thing the kid is failing at (name the thing: organize a binder, talk to their adult teachers about failing grades, manage their time...). Every kid I have talked to reports being sincerely and fundamentally unhappy. Although I value preparing my child for high school, it feels like the entire school is staffed by that one jerk teacher you had who got off on weeding out students, hazing, and bullying.

Is this just how school is now? For all the talk of school being easier now or more permissive now than when adults were kids, this just all seems like a lot and not anything in line with our family's values. Note, we have tried talking to our student's TA and counselor but we were given verbatim the same response from both, that there are no problems and that they are teaching the students to "advocate." When asked how students were being taught to advocate and how to support our student, the conversation was over on their end.

Is this the new Arlington way?[/quote]

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