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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so tired of the gossiping parents trying to get more information about a six year old’s struggles. Truly not being rude just to be rude on the Internet. I have been part of text chains and heard about this at the bus stop, and I just feel like it’s none of my business (or anyone else’s that is not in that class). Just bc the principal has a policy of sending out emails doesn’t mean we need all the details. [/quote]

This. I was very active at my daughter's elementary school and had to step away from an entire group of parents because of this exact issue. Grown adults texting and gossiping about "bad" kids. It was gross. I wonder if the Principal feels like over communicating helps stop the gossip? I didn't find that to be the case at our school, but I can understand thinking that. Or is it an attempt by the administration to shame everyone to step up the parenting? At our school, it's almost never a truly serious OMG everyone panic incident at all, and usually it's a group of kids, even when one has the spotlight. I also can't help wonder if some of this is the kids are a mess but also the teachers are exhausted and stressed and unable to manage behavior that they could manage a few years ago. But yes, no one needs the details on this. [b]If it's truly something that impacts your kid, you'll know, [/b]and if you think you need to know more, pick up the phone and call the school. Don't gossip. 
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I wish this was true, but in my experience it has not been (APS, not Taylor).  My kid got punched at recess (including a black eye) and, separately, experienced verbal threats of violence and I did not proactively hear about either of those from the school but rather had to learn on my own and figure out what had happened to follow up.  So yes, we do need the details, and preferably in a timely manner and initiated by the teachers and administrators who were present.[/quote]

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