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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don’t counsel out slightly to moderately disruptive elementary school boys.  They consistently use redirection at school, make a referral for an evaluation where appropriate, and it all takes time.  Try to have some empathy, perspective, and patience - because can be embarrassing and challenging to be the parents of a child with behavior issues and because a lot of issues that do not involve violence or bullying are often readily outgrown in time (and/or changed better classroom management).  Also make sure that you are not overly voicing your own displeasure with your presumably very diligent and well-behaved daughter; its frustrating but she should not get a ton of attention put if the ordinary out of coming home and telling on these boys.[/quote]

So these kids are just endlessly redirected using class time? I genuinely don't understand why they aren't being sent out of class when this happens. It seems unfair for class time for the entire class to be used every day to discipline the same 1 or 2 kids.

My daughter has brought it up to us a bunch of times because she's frustrated that her learning and experience are being impacted. For example, she was particularly upset last week because during an outdoor exploration class, they had planned to take a long walk to the school garden and discuss some of the winter changes. They weren't able to take the walk because the teacher spent so much time dealing with 1 of the boys. The teacher apologized to the class and said they ran out of time for the walk due to the boy's disruptive behavior making the rest of the lesson go so slowly. The teacher then dismissed them to their next special (music) and audibly (in front of the rest of the kids) warned the music teacher that the one boy was being particularly difficult today.

I'm not sending her back to public school with kids who behave super outrageously, but I definitely expected better classroom management in private school (meaning, kids who don't behave don't get to stay in class; I definitely recall from my own private school days the teacher sending kids who misbehaved to the HOS rather than let them remain in class and disrupt the rest of us).

disIt seems like it'd be much more effective for them to leave class, get some sort of speech from the counselor etc, and instead some percentage of class time is being consumed while 1 or 2 kids are disciplined (and it's the same 1 or 2) [/quote]

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