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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, my sister and my BIL are both teachers in the suburbs of another city in a sort of purple state/purple area. It’s been bad for awhile and trending worse. She teaches HS in a fairly affluent area but nothing like the rich areas here and he teaches MS in a more working class suburb. It comes down to the schools really have their hands tied in terms of discipline and grades. It’s extremely difficult to fail a kid in a class even if they never turn in any assignments and fail all their tests. Kids get pushed from one grade to the next without learning the material. They can’t take away phones, and even if they did the kids just look at stuff on the Chromebooks anyway. There’s a lot of bullying that goes on with social media. They can still give detentions but anything more than that is very difficult if not impossible. There are very few alternative placements for kids who are really struggling, and then if the parents are supportive the school wants to fight because it costs $$$, and half the time the parents aren’t supportive anyway. When I was a kid you could get expelled for particularly serious violations but they can’t do that anymore. [/quote]

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