Reply to What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God you people are complainers. Cry me a river! Just deal. [/quote]

+1,000 my kids have had about a 16 month range of birthdays in their classes.  They've been among the oldest and youngest (although actually followed the cutoffs).  They really didn't find this to be a big deal AT ALL.[/quote]

This hasn't been my DCs' experience. All of my DCs have been physically hurt multiple times by the held back boys who were large for their age and larger because they were held back. They problem is, a lot of parents hold back their boys because they think they're not ready behaviourwise. The truth is, a lot of these boys are just brats because there is no discipline in their homes so, another year doesn't change these boys' behaviour. 
[/quote]

Agree. The quantity of spoiled brats is quite high in DC private schools. I don’t know how the teachers do it.[/quote]

Dog bites man.

The questions are:
What does the school do about managing behavior regardless off the ages of the students?
What is the schools age cutoff policy?
Do any of you take your concerns to admin?

It’s a private school. You are choosing it. [/quote]

Of course we took our concerns to the administration. They didn't do anything because they kids were teacher's kids. And of course we chose the school, but it's not that easy switching schools. The kids have their routines, friends, and activities and to disrupt that due to a couple of ill mannered kids when everything else is going great seems to be an inappropriate reaction. Teacher kids, large donors, and longtime families with a lot of kids enrolled trump all. There is a diferent set of runs for them. My DCs have attended several private schools. It's the same at all of the schools, so switching schools wouldn't necessarily improve the situation. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics