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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see these behavioral issues from more than a handful of kids in my kid's school. Most kids are well behaved and clearly have parents who instill good manners, whether they are more strict and using time outs or similar, or use a more intensive modern approach of talking it through with kids. Either way the kids are all right.

The kids who struggle either have special needs or difficult home lives, or both. There have always been kids like this. But yes, schools used to separate them into another classroom or use suspensions to keep their behavior from impacting classrooms, and now they often do not. But I don't find those kids totally undermine the classroom. Most of the time it's fine. My kid has only been evacuated due to the violent behavior of a classmate one time.

I do question what middle and high school will be like. Bigger kids, bigger problems. But my kid's elementary experience has been very similar to mine in terms of behavior.[/quote]

NP.  As far as undermining the classroom, you might be surprised.

One of the phenomena my kids always talked about were the "iPad kids".  Those were the behaviorally difficult kids who distracted everybody else in class.  Some teachers would "reward" these kids for halfway acceptable behavior or just placate them by letting them have "iPad time" while the teachers were doing other tasks.

The children were very curious about why well-behaved kids didn't get these iPad privileges.  And they also noticed these kids were essentially being placated by screens most of the time.  That there basically were misbehaving but rewarded children in their classrooms who did not have to do the same work.

I also remember the year my son's 5th grade got fidget stools that sway to accommodate the ND kids who "need" to be in constant motion.  What about the kids who "need" for others to be quiet and still so they aren't distracted?  The classroom went from a normal classroom with a few kids that were allowed to fidget on a fixed chair to having four seats with kids who could look like they were pogo-sticking furiously in class.  All kids loved these ridiculous springy stools.  My son chose one during my parent-teacher conference with his 5th grade teacher and I had to tell him to get off of it (he is not ND) because I couldn't focus on the teacher with him bobbing up and down next to me.

Another lowlight was the freshman science class where my kid who should have been in an advanced class was in a class with 2 parapros supporting kids who couldn't really do much of the assignments.  And 2/3rds of the class had time accommodations for testing.  My kid was bored out of his mind.  One parapro singled him out to chastise his behavior while her student charge watched "Family Guy" on his phone. Impossible for me as a parent to do anything about this. His grades dropped somewhat because he didn't care to put in any effort in this crazy environment.

There definitely are bad behavioral amplification effects AND increased cynicism from the students who can behave themselves related to "least restrictive environment" management.[/quote]

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