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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks.  The problem I am having is getting accurate info from my child.  It's hard to get him to tell me what kids did it.  [/quote]

Definitely follow up with teachers and admin, daily if needed, until resolved. If the kids are OOB they could be sent to their IB for this sort of behavior, IIUC. If IB, then it's different, but the school could do more to address this. 
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Oh, this response makes me so sad. [/quote]

Oh, my kid crying nightly and refusing to go to school because she is getting picked on makes me so sad. The mom who just emailed me with her kid crying as well is probably sad as well. [/quote]

I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm in classrooms for my job and I can tell you that the same response makes me sad too.  Not because your children should continue to endure being the victims of bad behavior.  It makes me sad because if it continues, the school's approach to engaging the students behaving badly and their parents isn't working.  K is simply too young to not be able to find an way [b]in the school[/b] to work with those students to change their behavior.  And trust me, I've seen behavior that is off the charts worse than what is described in this thread.  But these kids are young enough that they can be worked with 99% of the time.  So jumping to &quot;If they're OOB they can be kicked out&quot; is people just trying to &quot;purge the school&quot; instead of actually using best practices to work with those kids effectively.  Which, if the problems continue, is clearly not happening.

Would be different if we were talking 4th, 5th grade.  But this is K.  The strategies are out there to effectively get these kids in line, regardless of the source of their issues.  Very few kids this age can't be worked with effectively.

So I agree, no one wants your kids to continue to suffer, but I also think it's a cop out and a sign of poor classroom management and bad behavioral supports if this escalates from bad behavior -&gt; transferring to their IB school after 2 weeks.  Or even a month, if no one is working with the students to change the dynamic.[/quote]

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