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[quote=Anonymous]No. Unless the student brings a knife or gun to school. Then they can be sent to an interim placement for 45 days.

My oldest had a really good experience at our neighborhood public school. I only had great things to say about it.

His younger brother who is three grades below had a vastly different experience. There was a  really, really aggressive and destructive kid where classrooms had to be evacuated. Then another kid who had complete meltdowns and while not aggressive would cry loudly and crawl under desks, refuse to leave a classroom or runout.  Then a bunch of milder but significant behavior problems. Mean girl bullying issue and a couple other issues.

The teachers dreaded getting this cohort and it was so obvious they didn’t enjoy teaching as much as when they had my older son’s cohort. The cohort thay followed the dreaded cohort I heard were also delightful. A few issues here and there but nothing like the dreaded one.

I realized nothing was going to change midway through second grade. My son hated school, he hated seeing his teacher and friends attacked, he had a rock thrown at his head that cut him, he had things stolen from him, and he was barely learning anything. He was becoming moody and irritable.

In January I took him to tour a Catholic school even though we aren’t Catholic thinking I would enroll him the following year in third grade. He was shocked when he visited the Catholic school classroom. When we left he kept commenting that everyone looked so nice and listened to the teacher. He begged me to switch him right away and said he never wanted to go back to the public school. Luckily they had a spot for him right away and he never did go back. He was in total shock the first month there. His mood changed and he was no longer irritable or moody. He loved going to school. everyday he came home and commented how much quieter the class was and no one got attacked or had there things stolen.[/quote]

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