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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are your kids in school?  When you have a year where your DC's classroom is evacuated on a weekly+ basis because of a kid with out of control behavior, you'll understand a bit more what your SIL is trying to say.  Private schools kick those kids out.  Public schools can't.[/quote]

Where is this happening? What % of schools? I ask because I am 5 years into my kids’ public school experience and I have never heard of a violent incident or an evacuated classroom. My older child was in a mixed gen Ed / special Ed class with an extra teacher and aide two years in a row. Our neighbor is autistic and went to the same public school - rising 6th grader. I am good friends with his mom and she has never mentioned anything like you describe. I have never heard of classroom evacuation due to behavioral issues from my mom friends and coworkers with kids in public schools all parts of Arlington county, Falls Church, and Alexandria. In fact the ONLY time I ever about table flipping or routine evacuations is in Republican talking points. [/quote]

Well that's kind of ridiculous and I'm a registered Democrat!  It definitely happens whether your friend has mentioned it or not.  I wouldn't say it happened everyday at the well regarded elementary school where I worked for 20 years in the special ed department but it happened pretty regularly.  I would imagine that your kids don't come home and tell you about it because it's not that unusual to most kids today.  It's not routine but it definitely happens.  Interesting that you think it's part of a conspiracy theory apparently.[/quote]

I asked my 1st grader about the classroom evacuations since he hadn’t ever mentioned them.  He said it happens and he doesn’t talk about it because the kids involved are having a hard time and it would be embarrassing for them to be talked about.

He also isn’t bothered because they get to bring a book or head to the library which he enjoys more than the centers they are usually rotating through.

I am not sure if his perspective is from his own empathetic nature or if the teachers have set this expectation of not sharing.

I would be bothered by the SIL’s attitude as it is likely to harm vulnerable children/ families. But I understand choosing private school. We had to leave public school for our dyslexic child due to the disastrous reading curriculum and minimal sped support.[/quote]

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