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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, my daughter was in a progressive school. I thought they'd be more tolerant, not less. Go figure.
As you can see from the comments above, once your child has been counseled out, people make a lot of assumptions: that your child must be seriously disabled, that he or she had serious, unmanageable behavioral issues and disrupted the entire class, that you were an obnoxious, aggressive, helicopter parent, all of which just makes the experience of being counseled out all the more damaging. And if it happens at a progressive school...well, if such a warm, wonderful, welcoming place would do that to your child, then you all must be super f***ed up. If you try to explain how it all happened, it sounds so preposterous, that people think you're a liar in addition to all of the above.
Again, wouldn't it be nice if the schools had to make their "counseling out" rates public?[/quote]

I think to understand this fully you have to keep in mind that schools council out for two reasons:

1) the pressure from teachers who have to use 10X as much energy to try to reach the kid and keep them on track at the expense of the rest of the class

2) the pressure from other parents in the class/ school who really resent the kid that may be acting badly toars their child or dissrupting the class so much that it is affecting their child's learning . You know , the " we're paying $30K attitude"

So, to get kicked out you pretty much have had to alienate your child's teacher,  the other kids in the class , and most of the other parents before the Head gives you the talk…In other words, its pretty bad.[/quote]

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