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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask what you think is different?  Are there more kids with these behavioral issues?  Or were they in different classrooms instead of being mainstreamed before?[/quote]

No discipline. No parenting. This wasn’t a thing when we were young. For better or for worse, kids knew they’d get it from their parents if they misbehaved, so they didn’t.[/quote]

There also was corporal punishment.  The jr. high math teacher would take the disruptive boy into the hallway, slam him against the lockers, and tell him to get his act together.  Lest you feel sorry for the boy, he did get his act together and retired in his 30s after a nice (albeit brief) VC career.  He was fine and the rest of us, boy included, got to learn.[/quote]
Agree with both PPs.

A parent once told me that the teacher emailed this parent about how the DC was being disruptive in class.  The parent responded back that it was the teacher's job and what can the parent do about it when the parent is at work.  I was floored. I didn't say anything, but I was thinking, "duh.. the teacher wants you to talk to your DC about the behavior in class". It takes a village.

FWIW, my DC was in the same class, and my DC also got a few pink slips from this teacher. My response to this was to "punish" DC every time DC got the pink slip (like taking away 30min of electronics or something).    Recently my DC and I were talking about this teacher, and DC told me that when DC was in the class, DC thought the teacher was "mean", but now reflecting on it, DC thinks the teacher was pretty good, and I would agree. My other DC had the same teacher.

I don't know if this is a generational thing or not but I don't reward my children for doing what is expected of them, ie, behaving in class.

I think some children respond well to praise rather than punishment, but there are other children that do not. You cannot apply the same discipline techniques across the board. It doesn't work that way. I have two kids and discipline that works on one doesn't work on the other. I have 3 other siblings and it was the same for the four of us.

I realize that certain segments of our population, like black boys, get treated more harshly than other groups, but I think sometimes admins go too far the other way.  If you coddle them for the 13 years they are in school in terms of letting them get away with sh1t with no punitive consequences what happens when they turn 18 and they continue to misbehave?  The time to discipline them is during the earlier years.  By HS, it's that much more difficult to get trouble kids to change their behavior.[/quote]

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