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The school is in a W cluster.  I don't get the impression from my kids that it is one group of kids that are the "troublemakers".  I said something to a neighbor and he joked that it's because all the kids have parents that are lawyers so the parents/admin are scared of getting sued.

Obviously my kids don't talk about it every night, I was being hyperbolic, but it is the subtext of a lot of stories -- we didn't get to this because kids were.....the teacher couldn't....

From the posts on the board it seems like this is just the culture here - a tweens will be tweens sort of thing.  I find that hard to believe though, we are talking about an area a few hours away with similar demographics. I doubt the parenting styles could be that different, but I've been wrong before.

In the previous school teachers were freer with detentions (this is the 3rd time I asked you, see you after school) and deducting points (didn't choose to do that homework, let's not waste the class' time - here is your zero).  You can have discipline without being iron-fisted, in an ideal world kids will be engaged and want to pay attention and learn, but even without that, the fair and kind teachers often have the better behaved classrooms because kids want to please them.   I have asked my kids about the teachers and they said that the teachers are respectful to the kids.

But, my actual question is - can I do anything?  Talk to anyone? Is this an issue being addressed in any of the schools?   I looked at the code of conduct and this type student behavior appears to be against it, and it seems as if it is in the teachers' power to appropriately correct it. [/quote]

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