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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here...WOW, I am stunned at what I'm reading here.  Is this thread really trying to tell me that this is simply the expected norm among "poor" and/or Hispanic children??  Are you saying that unless I'm rich enough to afford an elite private school or an $800k home in a posh neighborhood, I should accept and expect that my daughter will be treated with contempt, aggression, and occasionally harmed because that's how parents raise the little toughs in the rough streets of Shirlington??  Come on, there are no poor people in Arlington...the cheapest house you can get here costs twice what my house in Michigan cost, and "poor" families have a higher income than my dad ever pulled in.  If this is poverty, visit Detroit people.

Look, I didn't list S. Arlington in the title line as some kind of weird wink-and-a-nod code; I listed it because those are the school systems I'm allowed to choose from (for some reason, N. Arl parents can send their kids to Claremont even though S. Arl parents can't send their kids to Key).  Campbell appears to have a warm, nurturing culture with a community meeting every week empowering kids to help shape their own rules...so I wondered if that made a difference in terms of the general social expectations one might expect there.  Drew has the Montessori program, and Montessori teaches courtesy and respect from a young age so one might suppose those kids have a higher standard of behavior as well.  I wanted to know if these guesses were true based on real parents with real experience there, because otherwise I won't bother considering bumping my kid to a different school if it's all the same.  [/quote]

My son is in kindergarten at a title1 school in fairfax county. He has been very happy there. I helped chaperone a field trip recently and had the opportunity to chat with several of the kids and observe group interactions. The kids were incredibly sweet, respectful, kind, and fun to be around. I am really happy with his class and teacher. For the record, I have  also talked to him about bullying and always encourage him to share his school experiences, good and bad, with me. He is pretty forthcoming with info and has never complained of aggressive behavior from classmates.

I'm sorry your child has to deal with this. As a parent, I would find this type of behavior/environment totally unacceptable. I would hope it's not the norm for public schools. for what it's worth, it certainly isn't the norm at my son's school.[/quote]

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