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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think he is just addressing the atmosphere and would appreciate some parental reinforcement.  I also think that the operative word and reason for the letter might be "horseplay."

When it is just a handful of kids acting out, it should have been handled with those kids. But, I've no kids there so this is all speculation.  But, middle school kids are not known for being docile.[/quote]

It's not just a "handful" of kids. It's become an epidemic, not just at Carson, and it needs to stop. [/quote]

You know what would be helpful? CONSEQUENCES. If kids got real detentions and real suspensions again, this would stop.[/quote]

Consequences need to BEGIN AT HOME and should continue at school. Stop making excuses for kids' ill-mannered behavior and stop pawning off parenting to the schools. [/quote]

I'm not making excuses for anyone. Yes, absolutely parents need to provide consequences too. I see two different types of parents that let their kids get away with horrible behavior:
1. The parents who are obsessed with gentle parenting/permissive parenting and let their kids get away with all sorts of bad behavior and just make up excuses (or worse, make up diagnoses) for them.
2. The parents who think their children are model students and deny that they would ever misbehave, therefore their kids get away with mouthing off, bullying, sometimes even destruction of property because their child is perfect and would never behave that way.

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NP. There's a third type and it's worse than the other two. It's the parents who do [i]nothing[/i]. No expectations about behavior at home, blocking the school's phone number, ignoring teacher messages or emails, zero encouragement to do well academically. These are the kids who are basically feral because their parents have invested no time or energy in modeling the right kind of behavior for school or even life in general. Things usually get out of hand by middle school because hormones are in the mix and some have started experimenting with drugs and/or alcohol. [/quote]

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