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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here, and I'm with PP in calling the poster racist. Like this gem:

"the bullies are learning that from being in environemnts [sic] where they are wathcing [sic] violent and sxual [sic] video games in the home, experiencing and witnessing violence from their moms and their boyfriends and then taking that learned behcaivor [sic] into a classroom. No thanks." [/quote]

Excuse me, the same sort of thing can be found in tons of homes with white families in this country.  It just so happens in DC that because of SES it more often happens with black families here so this has nothing to do with racism. Stop making everything about race when it is not.[/quote]

I agree that poor behavior transcends race. I stand by what I said about this issue though. Black preschoolers are disproportionately suspended. I'm sorry that those facts do not comport with your worldview.[b] If children are so violent that they cannot be in a classroom, the school does what it can.[/b] As far as I know, there is no comprehensive discipline policy for all of DCPS preschool. [b]My child's school has a policy that involved positive behavior reinforcement, even for older kids.[/b] Despite its high poverty rate, as far as I know, that policy has been [b]relatively effective[/b] at redirecting problematic behavior without employing suspensions or expulsions, even in extreme cases like what happened to my daughter. [/quote]

I don't know what you mean by older children, and given our experience I don't think what happened to your daughter was "extreme."  Now when you start talking about older children who get into physical fights where kids actually end up hurt, or teachers end up hurt, or a boy who is threatening to rape a girl and we all know he knows what it means, who is talking about how his father has a gun and has killed someone........  THEN you can talk to me about EXTREME.  When your child ends up in the ER, you can talk to me about extreme.  Oh and in case you care all the students in question were minority students, so no little snowflakes were involved.  And that teacher who says you can call CPS till hell freezes over and they will never come was also on the money.  Did you see the utube video about the flash mob attack in Galleria Place between Wilson and McKinley Tech students?  It was posted here somewhere last year.  Watch it and then come back here and talk to us all, educate us all, about what is "extreme" behavior.  They got enough verbally disruptive kids so sometimes can't hardly teach, what about that kid from DC General last year who did what to a teacher and what with a window?  Oh and I'm sorry because now that I mentioned he was at DC General I gonna catch hell and I'm done for.  I flying my racist flag..... and you all gonna catch me and put me in my place, not that you have ever heard of someone being "schooled."  Lady, I think we come from two different worlds - they may both be real, but one is a hell of a lot more dangerous than the other, and I think one is a hell of a lot more common in this chocolate city of ours.  Just some thiings to consider when you are so proud of your response - some "victims" don't have parents capable of doing that, or worse, those parents aint the right color so no one going to listen to them in the first place.[/quote]

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