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[quote=Anonymous]OP, this sounds very similar to my child.  In our case, it became very clear after we pulled him from the DC Charter we were at that the issue all along was the school.  He was not ready for that structured of an environment and their methods were totally wrong for our son.

We have since moved entirely out of the area where DS is at an all day daycare/preschool whose teaching philosophy is developmentally appropriate for our son.  They use positive reinforcement versus the very, very negative system the charter had been using.  His new teacher says he is one of her best kids, is very smart, is quick to apologize for bad behavior and is quite reasonable.  She thinks our over-anxious check-ins about how he is doing are kind of silly, I think, and when we tell her about our experiences in DC she is shocked.

So, don't assume that KKI is wrong.  Our kid definitely had anxiety because the school we had him at was demanding things of him that he was not prepared to give.  It shut him down completely to the point where every morning was 20 minutes of hysterics about going to school.  When I think about what we put him through (because we are first time parents and didn't know) I feel sick.  Do NOT let these teachers/daycare directors - who ostensibly do not have actual degrees in special ed or developmental pediatrics - insist on things that you do not feel are right.

In our case, it's pretty clear now that the school was just utterly incompetent when it came to adapting curriculum to each child's developmental needs, and that his teacher needed to insist something was wrong with him because she was utterly clueless how to deal with any child that wasn't 100% with her program.  My son was just one of several boys that she did not know how to handle and who had terrible experiences in her classroom.  [/quote]

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