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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I had it to over again, I would absolutely send my children to private school. They are in HS now so the ship has sailed, but I am saving up knowing I may want to help my grandchildren attend private. It’s sad, but this is the result of IDEA done amok and parenting responsibility gone out the window. I regret that I didn’t pull the trigger in late elementary when I first started to realize it. Hope springs eternal I guess. [/quote]

I agree that things fall apart in late elementary. I’m in a district that ends elementary at 5th grade, and my DC’s public elementary is very esteemed. The kids who have issues - parental, emotional, behavioral, educational, IEP or no IEP - have gotten worse and more numerous, and since the kids are getting bigger, some have phones, some are more independent in terms of getting to school and back home, some are entering puberty and so forth, parents are stepping back so any extant problems are just what they are. Parents do not have the social expectation of reaching out to other parents to help resolve things - a little (every bad word that has ever existed) kid who has used every insult and threat imaginable is now totally free to do what he’s always done since K as a 5th grader, and his parents have totally given up on even the minor courtesies like apologizing to the family after their kid threatened to murder another and set the victim on fire, or tripping and beating another kid. These parents seem to think it’s only on the school to deal with this stuff by late elementary. It’s a different world from my own childhood.[/quote]

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