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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the other kids have to be in a classroom with this kind of violent behavior?  Or you think the school should hire a teacher just for this one child?
This is not compulsory public elementary education. This is optional preschool.  If this is happening repeatedly, the problem is the parentingand [b]the kid should be removed from the school so the other kids can get what their parents are paying for[/b].[/quote]
You can huff and puff all you want.  At the end of the day DCPS has a responsibility to educate ALL CHILDREN who attend their schools, and to do what they can within reason to manage behaviors.  It is useful and usually actually harmful to suspend kids this young.  It does nothing to address the behaviors that got them in trouble, usually reinforces those behaviors, and pretty much gives up on those children at what, 3??  4??  5 yrs old???

Kids that young, even the ones with serious issues, need to be engaged and at least an attempt to work with them before they are abandoned.  No, DCPS is not a mental health agency.  But it is a certainty when running schools in urban environments with poverty-stricken communities that you will get a signficant number of kids with troubling behaviors, and the school system should be ready to do some basic management of those behaviors before essentially kicking the kid out.

And regarding the bolded, so you are assuming that the parents of the kids acting up, none of them pay taxes either?  Only the "good kids" are from families that pay taxes, so suspend the "bad kids" forever because they didn't earn their right to this education either?[/quote]

But isn't this Nebraska? Not DC?  If it is Nebraska it is very likely private preschool that parents are paying for NOT taxpayer funded public pre school.[/quote]

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