Reply to Violence in Kindergarten- Sligo Creek Elementary

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Violence in Kindergarten- Sligo Creek Elementary "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is sad.

So many factors cause this. Five year-olds are generally too young to sit in a classroom all day. How much recess time do these kids get?

I am 41 and when I was growing up, public kindergarten was a half day. You got AM or PM along lots of free time and recess. School is too long for the children and for these hardworking teachers. [/quote]

We've never had issues of significance OP is describing, but the issues we have had are all worse at recess. The staffing issues are so bad for recess monitors, and the ones they can get are mostly checked out. We've been playing a bit of a whack-a-mole with bullying this year for our second grader, and it's all been at recess. To its credit the school has been good at responding and we've been able to get them all under control, but we'd need to overhaul recess significantly to make more recess a solution, in my eyes.[/quote]

+1.  I have heard so many complaints about recess and lunch monitoring.  These issues are not ones that schools are going to be able to fix without significant influxes of cash to be able to offer greater salaries to people.  The is the realization of the U.S. relying on volunteer support  instead of making the necessary dramatics changes to our social structure to allow for meaningful action and support for families.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics