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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

I can appreciate that some kids have behavior issues which the school and their parents work on. I definitely appreciate parents who dealt with that speaking up. When I think more about it, I actually think I'm more frustrated that the school hasn't done more about it to improve what's happening in class, even if my post seemed like my frustration was directed at the kids (who as people said, are kids after all). I would have expected the kids to be sent out of the class pretty quickly when behavior crops up (to the head of the lower school or the school counselor or something like that?) rather than the teachers to be endlessly disciplining them in class.

I think I'm most frustrated because learning for the whole class is being impacted by 2 kids with behavior problems. If the kids were just swiftly dismissed to the head of lower school etc every time there was a behavior problem, I wouldn't care what was happening. Instead, it seems like class time is being taken up as the teachers (in homeroom and specials) endlessly correct these 2 boys.

My daughter told me today how they had to end math early because of 1 of the boys. The things they didn't get to would be done tomorrow during another lesson. It's nuts to be that 1 or 2 kids get to negatively impact class for everyone else.

Some people mentioned how poorly behaved kids end up in privates because their parents just assume they need a different environment. I guess maybe? But the school DD is at is a very competitive one to get into, requires a shadow day and student interview, and requires LORs from current teachers. I would think they'd be able to suss out behavior problems that way. She actually had a somewhat disruptive classmate from her public apply to her private school and he didn't get in. He was both a URM (black) and had a sibling at the school; to me, that's good evidence that her current private school is wary of behavior issues.

And these boys behavior is still like 5x better than the behavior kids in public, who were physically rough or extremely disruptive. In public, my daughter had a kid who kept flipping over his desk, another kid who pushed and shoved kids whenever he felt like it, and so many kids who couldn't stay in their seats, yelled out constantly, and made a game of their poor behavior trying to encourage others to join in. We actually felt like public school was normalizing this behavior because it happened so frequently and severely. Our private school experience has been worlds better. Perhaps I am just expected too much, though.

One of our kids is a boy, which is why we didn't consider an all girls private school, as we'd like the kids all at the same school ideally. I would be upset if my son behaved like these kids anyway. I don't think boys behavior should be excused just as a gender thing. [/quote]

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