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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think when managing a room with up to 30 kids, it’s not unreasonable that the teachers will sound brusque or rude to a parent’s ears. They have to be tough to maintain control of the classroom. [/quote]

They don't have to say to first graders, "MAKE A LINE!  I SAID MAKE A *STRAIGHT* LINE!  Do you people not know what a straight line is?  How old are you?  6? 7?  You need to KNOW this, people.  You are too old to know know how to make a straight line.  Make a line and then sit down on your bottoms.  ON YOUR BOTTOMS."  All said at a yell or a near-yell, all in an angry and mocking tone, when the stakes were near-zero.  They were sitting down in the library for a story time.  They were not, in fact, in a straight line.  It was a wobbly line.  And it was completely fine that it was not a STRAIGHT line.  But I watched all but one first grade teacher at my child's school nearly lose their mind over the straightness or lack of straightness of those lines, berating the children the whole time.[/quote]

Yeah, okay, that's not okay.  There's something else going on here.  [/quote]

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