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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of it is true, but we have a few really good teacher this year who are holding the kids accountable and really tuff with grading but they are also teaching them the the skills that they didn't get in ES or MS.  The teachers can do far more and some choose not to.  The worst are the ones who will not read or return email when you try to work with them.[/quote]

Parents don’t care. Period. I have 12 kids who had over 26 absences each in quarter 1. It’s time for a mirror.[/quote]

Which school? [/quote]

Every school[/quote]

The policies may apply across all schools (though actually, principals seem to be implementing differently at different school).  But since students' norms, aspirations, and home-life pressures are different, the policies end up with pretty different effects at different schools.

My husband is a sub and he has been deliberately choosing to go to different middle schools over the past year.   He said there is an enormous difference in student behavior (in class on time, obeying teacher, paying attention) in different schools.  Clearly, a sub doesn't see the breadth of issues.  But in some schools, students follow instructions, pay attention, etc.  Of course, they tend to talk to their friends, etc. But he said that after he tells them to pay attention, there's ten minutes of quiet before the volume becomes too high once again.

At other schools, kids are in hallways, they don't have any response when he tells them to pay attention.  There are of course many good kids, but the fact that others in the class don't have any discernible response when he tells them to sit down means that no one learns enough.  He subbed on the last day of school last year, and the co-teacher reached out to some students saying that if they spent that last hour in class to finish/turn in three missing assignments, they would pass the class (if not, they would get an E).  And he said the kids just said they didn't care what their grade was, and didn't do those three assignments.  [/quote]

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