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[quote=Anonymous]   It is hard to tell form OP's description just how much of a problem this is, but my take on it is that it does not seem all that bad.  My family experienced a similar (and I think much worse) problem in a private elementary with a similar philosophy.  In our case, the elementary school accepted several children with serious impulse control issues coupled with other learning challenges, and the combination was daily disruption and a fraction of the learning that there should have been in 3d--5th grades and led to social-emotional issues for other students who had to deal with the constant disruption.   Some educators have a very inflated view of their own expertise in dealing with exceptional children -- either those who need support to keep up or those who immediately get it and are bored.  We saw this in a progressive elementary school -- the problem being that educators who come to the table with a particular ideology are sometimes slow to acknowledge that it may not be as well suited as anticipated for some of the children they have accepted  -- that amounts to admitted an error.  My advise to OP is to just be sure your child is not thrown off too much by this from a mental health perspective -- if he is and the school can't change it, get out.  It can have negative physical developmental consequences if it gets that bad.  On the other hand, if it isn't that bad, then just be sure you child is on track with math, etc. so that he doesn't fall behind a grade level where he should be moving forward.  Short of those things, I think it can be good for typical kids to see all the world is not like them, and to learn at this young age a) to deal with not everything being perfect; and b) that -- as OP admits -- sometimes what you think you believe in on paper is well and good until you see how it adversely impacts you personally.  It is better to start understanding these trade offs as a young age -- sometimes principles require sacrifice, and sometimes the sacrifice is so substantial that one needs to rethink their principles.   Life is complicated.  By 5th grade, kids are able to start learning about these things  a bit by experience.  Good luck to you. 
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