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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's probably not the case with the child in this article, but a huge problem is lack of sleep making little kids cranky and in some cases violent.  I personally know of two kids this age who were suspended from daycare where the main issue was that mom and dad had to get everyone up really, really early to get everyone to school and work, sometimes via public transportation.  I think that the bad performance of many neighborhood schools driving families to commute further in search of better schools has a downside in that it makes it harder to get kids enough sleep.  I'd love to see DC do a public education campaign on the importance of proper sleep, and to get to the point where all neighborhood schools are good schools.[/quote]

Absolutely. Add to that the fact that kids in distressed neighborhoods are often living in apartment buildings or on streets where there is noise all hours of the night.  People out all night, sirens, stuff going on in the apartments/houses next door... it all adds to a situation where sleep can be difficult and is rarely uninterrupted.[/quote]

This is not the authors situation.  She is a professional woman living in a nice community with lots of support.  Read her website and twitter.  Big difference from kids in that environment and one she is providing.

There is a difference between a tantrum and throwing a chair.[/quote]

Some of us are applying this whole thing to DC, since DC has also posted high suspension rates in PS and PK and DCPS schools have been told to stop suspending, I think through K (could be wrong and could just be PS and PK though).  I've moved beyond this one woman, though I know her situation is what this thread started about.  This is a much much bigger problem, this is the DC public schools forum, and I'm not talking about the woman in the article.

The point about sleep absolutely applies to the neighborhoods of the DC schools with the highest %s of challenging preschoolers and preKers.[/quote]

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