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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were not happy at all with the consistent volume of behavioral issues at Lab.   All schools have these issues to an extent but Lab had a ridiculous amount of fairly serious problems.  It has been consistent for several years.   The problems persist because the administration sweeps them under the rug and often looks the other way.

Lab is geared toward kids with LANGUAGE BASED DISABILITIES, so it is concerning they accept kids with  emotional issues.    
The classes at Lab may only be 8 or so kids in size but when the teachers are constantly putting out fires revolving around one of those eight kids, you may as well be in a class of 25.

Academics at Lab has definaty slipped over the years.  My child and his Lab friends actually joke that the main thing they learn at Lab is that there are no consequences for bad choices.  Lots of negativity in that building-- fag, queer, homo, N word, slut are just a few vocabulary words that my child and his friends hear on a daily basis.  It's to a point where these words no longer evoke no response because they are so frequeby used among Lab's students-- and those are the nicer phrases heard in the halls. The same offenders, time and time again and everyone realizes that these habitual offenders never have to take responsibility for their actions. 
We don't expect any school (unless it's a religious school) to be responsible for teaching our kids values or right vs. Wrong but it is helpful for a school to enforce an honor code or at least have some expected standard of conduct.

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PP, it's really, really weird that you resurrected a thread from two years ago.  I really do not believe you that your kid jokes that he learned that there are no consequences for bad choices.  If this is the case, look at your parenting and not just the school.[/quote]

What is so "really, really weird" about pulling a post from two years ago?  Also, feel free to doubt that my son and his friends joke about there being no consequence for the same, habitual offenders at Lab.  I did not say that my son has conduct issues or that he expects there to be no consequence for poor choices at home.  I simply said that the kids who toe the  line and follow the rules find it amusing that there are rules written in a handbook that are never enforced.  It doesn't exactly set a great example to let kids habitually go against stated conduct rules without a fair response.

If Lab is going to do the great  disservice of letting kids repeatedly break rules without consequence, why even have a handbook with rules, expectations snd guidelines?  I was under the impression there were basic rules, but suggestions.  Lab students know they can get away with murder and face no repercussions, so what do you think most kids are going to do?   
I guess my remarks wold be suspicious to parents who forget that the word parent means you actually have to parent a kids.  [/quote]

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