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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, my oldest is enjoying her first year in elementary school at one of the competitive K-12 schools. One of the main reasons we applied to private was to get away from the public school situation where every year there were a few highly disruptive kids in class who really halted learning for everyone.

My daughter really likes her new school, and I am generally pleased that the curriculum seems stronger and moves faster, class size is much smaller and the teachers seem great, other parents and kids have been welcoming, and obviously the facilities are a major upgrade from our public school. However, there are 2 kids in class whom my daughter claims are regularly and significantly disrupting class. She says they will speak while the teacher is speaking, get out of their seats, and encourage others in the class to be disruptive. It sounds like this is occurring throughout homeroom and specials classes. For example, in foreign language class today, my daughter says the 2 boys were both shouting "6 7" when other kids were trying to speak. In technology class, the boys were encouraging others to stand up and dance numerous times. My daughter says this really interrupts class and diminished learning for everyone. She was griping today about how they couldn't get to a game everyone else had been looking forward to playing in foreign language class because the teacher spent so much time correcting and disciplining the 2 boys. It sounds like the situation with the 2 boys has been going on since the beginning of the year and isn't improving.

According to my daughter, the school's approach to the boys' behavior has been to continually and constantly correct them. I do know they have met with at least one of the boy's parents, as the parents mentioned it offhand to me that they were dealing with some behavior problems with their son and they'd been called into school twice to discuss it.

I'm frustrated because I feel like a huge part of the reason I'm paying this staggering tuition is to get my kid out of classes with kids who are disruptive. As far as I can tell, both boys are not kid of major donors nor offering some intriguing diversity to the class - they appear to be from wealthy-ish garden variety full pay tuition white families, like my own.

I'm not sure how to proceed. My daughter has asked me a few times to reach out to the school admin and/or her teachers and express my concern about the situation. I would absolutely be in favor of doing this, except that we have 2 younger siblings we are hoping to get admitted in coming years (despite the disruptions from these boys, the school is still a huge step up from public and we would like our other kids to be admitted). The school has a very low admissions rate. I don't want to be seen as a nuisance and complaining parent. Our daughter is a model student and doing well there as far as we've been told. We donated fairly generously when asked (not enough to be stand out donors, but enough to be respectable).

What would you do? [/quote]

Your snowflake will be fine.  You cannot buy her a perfect life.[/quote]

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