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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was my kid at 4.

It was the school. There was one bad teacher who yelled and couldn't manage behavior of other kids in the class. It turns out my child was terrified of the teacher and the wild kids, so they'd "check out" to cope. The "checking out" got my kid labeled as a concern by the teaching team and my kid sensed it.

We switched schools at 5 and the teachers have had nothing to say except that child is a normal, happy kid learning on pace. They have "best friends" at school, they are engaged in the classroom, etc.[/quote]

+1.  We naively fell for "concerns" like this that our K teacher raised about our kid.  They swore up and down that it was a great classroom, and that they couldn't figure out what was going on with our kid.  At some point, they even told us that our kid came to school angry at us, which was news to us because he was always happy when we dropped him off.  Over time, we were able to learn from other parents and from some things we witnessed at pick-up that there were some significant issues in the classroom that were basically left unchecked.  Additionally, the "teacher" basically adopted a view that kids need to work there own issues out, so seemed to us that the teacher probably wasn't doing a great job managing the classroom in a way that made everyone feel comfortable and safe.  We also realized that the only place our kid had these "issues" was at school.  I had to get pretty direct with them, and basically confronted them about what was going on.  They continued to deny things to my face but then backed off real quick.

I still burn with anger thinking about it.  [/quote]

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