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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn't everyone want to protect their kids from harsh discipline?  [/quote]

I hope this wasn't a flip question.  I'm not OP, but I do think that all kids need to be protected from harsh discipline, simply because ruling by fear is not an effective way to manage the classroom or permanently change behavior.  My youngest child has an LD, but my oldest child does not.  The stories I hear from the oldest DC about some of the magnet teachers at her MCPS magnet middle school program make me want to cry -- teachers who yell, humiliate, and denigrate to manage the classroom.  It's hard on my DC when she has been caught on the brunt end of it, hard on my DC to watch and hard on the other kids (some of whom I suspect have ADD, but not all obviously) who are battered by what I consider to be verbal abuse.  I have also seen this behavior from teachers in elementary, although it seems more uncommon in those who teach the younger ones.  No child should have to be subject to this kind of discipline.

Unfortunately, IME, system doesn't view this as a problem.  I know of one teacher who has had multiple complaints about comments she has made to students, but no consequences ensue.  In fact, quite the reverse -- some kids have dropped out (or more correctly been driven out) of the magnet program due to this verbal abuse, but the system chooses to see them as students who "couldn't hack it" rather than acknowledging that there is a problem with a teacher.  As long as there is no physical or sexual abuse, the system tolerates quite a lot of verbal abuse by teachers.  [/quote]

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