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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the violent and disruptive kids have parents in the PTA to get preferential treatment. This way, their kids are not suspended or kicked off the school. Teachers and administrators receive generous gifts from corrupt parents.[/quote]

I don’t think this is true, at least not in my experience. I’ve worked in public and private schools. I’ve seen many cases of disruptive kids in private school having really aggressive, involved parents. But in public, for the really badly behaved kids it’s almost always the parents we never see. I feel like it’s because they are barely treading water, so they don’t want to reach out or come to school because it’s just an extra thing to do. It usually turns out that there’s also lots of obligations at home or other factors, like the parent is a single teenage mom, or it’s a stable married couple but with 3 other kids including twin babies, or they have two SN kids and 2 NT kids and just cannot keep up. Strangely, I also feel like there is a sense that if they don’t come in, the kid can’t get into really big trouble, because the school will just deal with it and move on. [/quote]

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