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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary school teacher and sadly, this isn't rare. I've always built great relationships with students and usually have a way with hard to reach kids.  However, the last five years has been a revolving door of students with little to no respect.  Yes, the pandemic hasn't helped but this started well before March 2020.  I've been hit more times than I can count, called every horrible thing under the sun, and still parents dismissing our calls and calling us racists.  I remember in the fall of 2019 I got punched in the face by a student because I leaned down and asked him to stop threatening a peer.  I ended up with a bruised face and my DH was furious.  He actually wants me to quit but I LOVE teaching.

I just wish the general public knew how often bad stuff goes down even at the elementary level.  I know the school to prison pipeline stats and understand the theory behind restorative practices, but we need to start inconveniencing these parents who let their kids go ape shit on us at school.   [/quote]

I agree with you that this started well before the pandemic hit. My guess is the push to mainstream kids with "behaviors" (which has been going on since the early 2000s?) and then the implementation of restorative justice (2018ish?) have been a one two whammy on behavior in schools. We had an issue with the bathrooms being destroyed at our kids' MS (literally kids would rip sinks off the walls). Nothing is done. It just kept happening. MCPS being slow to repair bathrooms was supposed to be a "natural consequence". WTF.[/quote]

Yes to all of this.  I have two kids in MCPS and this has seven my experience.  There were instances in both ES and MS where bathrooms were destroyed, kids were assaulted on the school bus, etc.  Kids are back in school practically the next day.  [/quote]

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