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[quote=Anonymous]Bear in mind that behavior problems showing up in a middle school aren't necessarily reflective on the school.  It's more a reflection on the background of the students leading up to the point where they changed to a new school.  Many DCPS schools have serious problems with classroom management, discipline and behavior - they tend to only focus on the worst of the worst, and much else is left to slide.

Add to this that soft bigotry of low expectations, with many bleeding hearts in the system saying "what do you expect from student 'x', he/she is coming from a bad home life".

Add to this, a lack of proper parenting in some homes - the kid who shows up late to school, has nothing but cheetos and purple drank for lunch.

By the time they are in 5th or 6th grade, that student already as 11 or 12 years of this, no parenting, no guidance, having bad behavior ignored, they are accustomed to getting their way, for example if they don't like a class or teacher, they figure they can just ignore the teacher and disrupt that class - there's over a decade of negative conditioning already in these kids by the time they arrive in middle school - a huge amount of issues to overcome and a lot of bad habits and bad behaviors that have to be unlearned - and that's not going to just magically happen within a few months of changing to a new school.[/quote]

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