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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wanted to echo chaos was part of our decision to move as well.  The level of chaos intensifies each year.[/quote]

What do you mean by “chaos”?  What’s an example?[/quote]

My daughter always complained in DCPS about how loud her 3rd grade classroom was and how much time they spent getting materials together and explaining an assignment before starting. I learned at back to school night that there were several kids with behavior issues in her class who couldn’t sit still and would constantly interrupt. The teacher told me in our parent teacher conference that she spent most of her time with those kids and my quiet, studious daughter didn’t need any attention. Moving to private meant. Y daughter got her share of the teacher’s attention and she didn’t constantly waste time waiting for other kids to settle[/quote]

I told one of my kids our private would not be like this (when we toured multiple times it was not) and then she ended up in the grade with the loud kids. They aren't "bad" as in intending to be jerks, but they've been poorly managed and they're energetic and her class is no calmer than her public class - possibly worse than her class last year which was pretty well-behaved. They constantly have to re-do things. It's been really disappointing. My other kids aren't experiencing classes like this. My kid is upset that "nothing has changed!"

That said, in our private no one has: pants-ed another kid, thrown a chair, hit my children, kissed my kid without permission, or stolen my kids lunch. All these things happened at our suburban public ES. Consequences for the culprits ranged from talking to them to sticking a paid adult with them 1 on 1 to try (merely try) to reduce the behavior.[/quote]

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