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[quote=Anonymous]I think parents are tired of the out of control behavior in some classrooms. It is a small percentage of children but it is highly disruptive to the classrooms when it happens. Schools do not seem to be doing anything about the behavior issues. My Teacher friends of kids in K-12 report being bitten, hit, kicked, spat at, sworn at and the like. The kid goes tot the Principals office and comes back 10 minutes later.

It feels like someone needs to do something to elevate that crazy behavior so that kids receive the help that they need and the other kids in the classroom have a clam learning environment. If the Teachers can’t do anything because administration has refused to do anything. If administration won’t do anything because Gatehouse has tied their hands. If Gatehouse won’t do anything because they are afraid of being sued or the programs that are needed are too expensive. Where do you go?

The instinct is to file a police report when a child chokes another child or threatens another child and you know the school is not going to do anything because maybe that will force someone to do something.

But you are right, a 7 year old is not going to be charged and it is a lot of paperwork and it is disruptive in a different manner.

Maybe if schools would get back to discipling kids for poor behavior. Maybe if it didn’t take 18 months of documenting 90 different strategies failing and taking away even more Teacher time to document and attend meetings. Maybe if parents didn’t sue because their kid isn’t that bad and they don’t want the kid to be in a smaller class for kids with behavior issues. The pendulum has swung far to far to the side of no punishment, inclusive classroom and people are frustrated.[/quote]

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