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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter says she doesn’t want to return to her in-bounds school this coming school year because “all the teachers yell.”  Truth be told, I have noticed this myself but have never directly discussed it with her before. I appreciate the difficulty teachers must have with managing ES kids, but it does seem like the default for many is yelling: in the classroom, in the hallways, at recess, at pick-up.

Why is this? Is it the default at other elementary schools? (Ours is Ludlow). I’m not trying to disparage LT - it has a lot of good points, too - but I’m interested in others’ experiences. Thanks.[/quote]

Have you ever tried quietly saying something to large groups of active kids? How did that work for you? How did you get —and hold—the attention of the kids?

FWIW, I’ve spent many years working in elementary and middle schools. I have a very soft voice. I have had some feedback from kids that my very soft voice can, at times, be confusing/intimidating for them.  It takes a lot of experience to quietly interact with large groups of kids. 
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I guess the question is is the teacher loudly talking and the noise a problem (a valid concern especially for young kids with sensory disorders but not necessarily a think every school with huge classes and bad acoustics can control) or are they telling specifically at students.

Because the second is definitely not normal and if teachers are often yelling at students directly (not just loudly talking for attention) then yes that's a problem.[/quote]

I completely agree. I took “all the teachers yell” to mean teachers using loud teacher-voices to be clearly heard above the noise of a playground, a cafeteria, or an exuberant class of kids — not teachers yelling directly or even punitively AT the students. [/quote]

Even if the kid is saying the teachers yell *at* kids, I'd follow up. My kid will say that her teacher "yelled at" a classmate over misbehavior, but I've chaperoned field trips and been in the classroom and seen this "yelling." It's not yelling. The teachers will scold a student for obvious misbehavior and the kids are sensitive to it because they like their teacher and really dislike receiving her disapproval. So it looks/feels like "yelling" to them. It's actually reflective of how much the look up to their teachers that being scolded or spoken to sharply can have such a strong impact on them.

A teacher who truly yells all the time, the kids will learn to ignore it entirely. If I noticed that a teacher was yelling and the kids were acting like ti was totally normal and not reacting at all, that would make me worry. [/quote]

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