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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I have also been told by students that it doesn’t matter if they get sent to the office as nobody gets in trouble. They wander the halls, cuss in class, kick other kids chairs, pee on the floor in the bathroom, and create a hard working environment for the other 29 kids in the class. But they are correct. They do not get in trouble. They get told not to do it again and we repeat the cycle. If I call home, the parent either won’t answer the phone or cussed me out for bothering them.

At least when there are consequences, the kids understood that and the other students in the class saw they couldn’t get away with it. Now on top of the disruptive kid, others see they can get away with it and we have many kids acting this way.

Restorative justice has hurt rather than helped the class.[/quote]

I could have written this myself. Do you teach third grade too?  So sad it has come to this....[/quote]

[b]5th at a difficult focus school. I’ve been at the same school for 10 years and it was only when we switched to restorative justice have things really deteriorated[/b].[/quote]

NP here.  I'm also a teacher at an elementary focus school and student behavior has been declining since at least 2017.  If we hadn't gone out in March 2020 I'm not sure how we would have made it the final three months.  That year was pure hell.  I think some of us are now just unphased at the craziness that goes on in classrooms.  I always wonder how none of this ends up being dinner time conversation at home?  If any of my kids came home and told me about this stuff, I'd be at the principal's door the next day.  I realize the families in our communities are very busy but you would think at least a few would be up in arms.[/quote]

I have a kid at a Focus school.  We had a student who would throw things (chairs, trash cans), run out of the room, yell at the teacher, hit another kid.  It was insanity.  Plenty of parents approached the principal.  Honestly, I don’t even blame the principal because there wasn’t much she could do.  One parent tried our cluster super, but got nowhere.  The cluster super is useless.  She just posts nonsense on Twitter and hasn’t even stepped foot in our school.  (Side note - I’m pretty she recently got a promotion in MCPS.)

The system is broken.  Completely and totally broken.  Parents and teachers are at the mercy of a defective BOE, and at the mercy of local politicians.  Our schools are overcrowded and our staff are stretched too thin.  The lack of discipline is demoralizing and exhausting.

And the kids who want to actually learn are just left to fend for themselves.

We strongly considers private school, but it would be a financial stretch.  So we stick it out, for now.  [/quote]

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