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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of parents who dismiss teacher’s comments about behavior simply because they cannot “see” the behavior.  Meaning, they ignore it, whereas a teacher in a classroom of 25 students cannot ignore the behavior as it is preventing learning from happening.

While harnessing children’s behavior with jobs and tasks work with some children, it is not helpful for all. For example, it is effective for early finishers that disrupt others who are still working, but it for the student running around the classroom or refusing to work.[b] That student will learn disruption=reward, and while it is a band aid for that time period, the cycle will continue as it becomes a learned behavior.[/b] When that student goes to another class and the teacher does not continue the cycle, that does not make the teacher a poor teacher nor not liking children as a PP stated.  There is nothing magical about reinforcing negative behaviors, but there is something magical about a teacher-parent collaboration that encourages and supports growth.[/quote]

That is not what happens. [b]Actually what happens is a bond develops between the problem child, the teacher and the class, and that solves a lot of the behavioral problems right there. [/b]But some people prefer the satisfaction they get from punishing -- winning -- rather than changing the problem student for the better.

I've even seen teachers ignoring the PITA child -- always a boy -- who raises his hand over and over and over and never gets called on because he's the PITA kid. That's wrong. Again, I'm not talking about my own kids but what I've seen sitting in on classes.[/quote]
But isn’t the whole point of parenting to prepare our kids to adapt to various environments? That they need to be respectful and listen regardless of whether they have a “special bond” with their teacher or not? My kids’ teachers have ranged from outstanding to very “meh” in terms of classroom management and my kids know — because I have actually taken my time to, y’know, parent them — how to behave regardless.[/quote]

Yes, it is.  But it's a decades-long process.[b] And all adults are involved in the process, including teachers, in a positive or negative way[/b]. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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