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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All schools have the potential for some degree of behavior problems, but the most extreme problems at public school with be more disruptive than the extreme problems in private schools.

Friends of ours were die-hard public school advocates until one of their elementary school daughters ended up in class with a child who was having violent meltdowns several times a week. The rest of the class was trained in how to safely evacuate the classroom when something set this this child off, and they had to do it at least every other day. The public school was doing their best, but didn't have the resources to safely manage and support the student in the mainstream classroom that the IEP mandated (they couldn't find enough 1:1 aides). Our friends moved their daughter to a small religious private school that had mid-year openings and haven't looked back.

My parents moved my brother to private school when they realized that it was the norm to have students putting other students in headlocks during lunch (and sometimes during unstructured time in class!) in his well-ranked public middle school.

All that said, those are extreme examples. Most people won't encounter situations like this, but it is possible in public school. I can't think of a single mainstream private school that would allow it, let alone make it the norm.[/quote]

That's why parents want their kids in GT programs. My kid in AAP has never had to deal with classroom evacuations [/quote]

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