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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these posts are making me want to check out my kid’s elementary school. He is in kindergarten through 5th. How would you as a parent even know if these kinds of behaviors are going on? How can I find out about what’s going on at the middle and high school his elementary feeds into? [/quote]

I know it sounds extreme, but the best way would be to get approved as a sub. Just spend a day or two in each school and you will be seriously considering private school. Also, here are some questions you can ask your child:

Do any kids in the class behave badly or have tantrums or get in trouble a lot? Do other teachers come into the classroom to work with some of the students (this would mean sped or EL teachers are servicing the room.) Do any students get taken out of the room by teachers to go do other things? (This could mean reading specialist, sped teacher, EL teacher, speech therapy, etc.)

Also, at our ES the classes each get a class score or "grade" in specials each day (like PE, art, etc.) and also lunch. You can ask them if their class gets good reports/grades/etc. (whatever their school uses) from the specials teachers and lunch monitors.

But honestly subbing would be the most informative. Until you've done that its ignorate bliss. You won't be able to unsee the things you have seen. [/quote]

Do you think this is the case at so called top tier publics? I don’t know the ranking but I think our local high school is supposed to be one of the top(ish) public schools in the country. [/quote]

1000%. Special education is everywhere in public schools. It does not discriminate based upon race or income. Its cute though that you don't think there are any rich kids in special education. [/quote]

I know that about special education. I'm talking about the (hopefully) extremes that people have mentioned here, including [b]repeated assault, evacuations in class, etc[/b]. And I didn't say anything about race or income or wealth.[/quote]

These are special education issues, and yes they happen at all schools. Sorry to burst your bubble about the "top(ish)" school you are zoned for. They still have to service any child who lives in their district, plus any child that is sent there for a program that doesn't exist at their home school. [/quote]

I don’t remember any of this happening regularly at my top public high school. [/quote]

By high school there’s usually a plethora of data that supports moving an out of control student to an alternative school or at least placing them in small group classes. K-2 always gets boned because parents are a lot more likely to push back when their child is 6 vs when he’s 16. Also, if you’ve been out of high school for at least 25 years, you probably weren’t even in the same building as those kids.[/quote]

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