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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called poor parenting and MCPS isn't social services as much as they try to be. Bring back schools for kids with behavioral issues. Staff it with mental health experts, highly trained teachers and social services personnel. Those kids get the extra support they need and kids in general schools can learn without distractions.[/quote]

There are already schools like that. And mental health issues aren't usually due to poor parenting unless your parent is from Mommie Dearest or something. [/quote]

A lot of people posting here are delusional. [b]This isn't a crisis.[/b] It's too bad they aren't doing things the way you think they should work, but based on evidence these methods are effective whereas these old-time notions aren't.[/quote]

With all due respect, do you work in a MCPS school?  If this were five years ago I would agree with you.  It used to be isolated students who needed more than the neighborhood schools were able to provide.  These last five years have turned our schools upside down.  I have packs of 10 year olds running our school.  There were 6 fights last week alone...in an elementary school.  One teacher was left bleeding as a result of one fight.  The last one on Friday took two male upper grade teachers to hold the kids back as the more petite female teachers were basically tossed aside.  I don't even work in a Title 1 school so who knows what's going on in other parts of the district.  [/quote]
Wow. Where do you work? Gaithersburg? Silver Spring?[/quote]

It honestly sounds like the teachers are so bad the kids just don't respect them. Perhaps, the county needs to hire more effective teachers.[/quote]

I agree. I volunteer with ED classes and the teachers are constantly setting off the kids in our class. Guess what, his mom is back in jail, he's having a bad day... don't yell at him for not picking up his feet when he walks. FFS![/quote]

What do you mean by "setting off" ? We're talking about older kids (middle school+ or even upper elementary) who set off the classroom in a massive way by making it impossible to teach, not someone's gait.[/quote]

I'm talking about, them talking back to a teacher. I am talking about upper elementary and middle.

[b]Most teachers are not trained to deal with kids with emotional issues and their actions set off kids to talk back and be disruptive. Even when warned, it's a bad day, they are so fricken nit picky. and yes, it's little things like.. pick up your feet, sit up straight, move your backpack... like come on, let it go... some kids are emotionally fragile and some teachers are nags and it sets kids off.[/b] [/quote]

So is it understandable for a student to curse at a teacher for doing a roll call? That's exactly what happened to my kid's teacher the other day. She was doing this and one of the kids in her class told her to "F*ck off. Why you staring at me."  Bottomline dealing with these kids are draining and I don't know how teachers can deal with this behavior on a daily basis. THen you wonder why there's high teacher turnover in these schools. I remember in the early 90s no one was allowed to talk to teachers this way. I don't know why teachers are no longer empowered to discipline their students. What a hot mess. WHere the hell did common sense go in this county??[/quote]

You're not going to get any accountability or common sense in a school district run by progressive social justice types.  Honestly, this county is doomed.[/quote]

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