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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wasn’t until I started to work at a school that I realized the vast gulf between different kinds of parents. Every day we have kids who people forget to pick up at the end of the day, who come in without jackets, clearly who have hardly slept, who have medical and hygiene needs. A lot of people’s lives are just really chaotic.[/quote]

Yup, this. I’ve worked in $$$ private schools and seen a lot of families with chaotic lives for various reasons. Many parents rely on their kids to tell them things or remind them of needs and deadlines. All kids have developing executive functions, but the ones who have less organized home lives tend to have particular problems remembering to prompt their parents for stuff.

I supervised an after-school study hall for middle schoolers, and the snack issue was a nightmare. A minority of the students had snacks with them, but everyone was hungry after school. Attempts to buy group snacks with donations led to further chaos because the same kids who didn’t have snack also forgot to bring money for the group snacks (no one was high needs in this population). [/quote]

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