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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MS child came home with a story about a student calling a teacher an a-hole and telling her to shut up in class today in front of everyone. This student isn't from the community and comes on a special program. It took 15 minutes for security to arrive, and the boy has been talking to the teacher like this all week. Kids said the teacher was crying. If the kid is back in class on Monday, I hope the teacher goes straight to the union. [/quote]

MCPS will say that the teacher should have built a better relationship with the student. [/quote]

This is not an exaggeration.[/quote]

They will say that if the teacher has engaging lessons, students won't behave that way.[/quote]

Well it's kind of true. [/quote]

Nonsense, and you know it. I’ve had students be disruptive even during my most engaging and interesting lessons. Why? Because my lesson is just one small aspect of their lives. They are also dealing with interpersonal relationship problems, exposure to serious adult content on their iPhones, really complex family problems, and the list goes on. My lesson doesn’t take away the myriad of challenges children face. I may be able to distract them for a bit, but their problems remain.

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The problem is excess discipline of children of color, even those from wealthy families. Since MCPS can't figure out how discipline kids fairly they choose not to discipline at all. That way they can blame parents for their own ineptitude instead of addressing racism.[/quote]

Common practice right now is to blame the teachers for poor behavior and classroom disruptions. I haven’t seen any of my administrators blame parents. Instead, the common response is “engage the kids more” or “make sure you place more focus on this child so he/she feels appreciated in your classroom.” I agree that systems are not disciplining at all, but they are also placing blame on overworked, abused, and powerless teachers. [/quote]

The teachers on this thread are blaming parents. The teachers are part of MCPS, and they are accountable for disparate treatment of children of color. [/quote]

Are you saying that teachers on this thread are solely blaming POC parents? I have heard plenty of complaints of all parents on DCUM. In fact, the biggest complaint seems to be the entitled white parents.

Behaviors in MCPS schools are not acceptable and there are too many to handle. Teachers are quitting due to these behaviors. We need solutions rather than blame. Nobody can teach and no students can learn in environments that are not safe. Yet, that is what we are experiencing now.

If you go to the SN board, you will see/hear all of the frustration of trying to parent a child with behaviors, whether from ASD, ADHD, ODD, mental health, etc… It has never been recommended to parents that the best way to handle these behaviors is to let the child get away with it. These parents are frustrated and are often dealing 1-1. There is no way that a teacher can handle a class of 25-40 with even 2 or 3 severe behaviors without support. I get that some people want no consequences, but there has to be a way to change the behavior of at least handle the behavior. Currently, the only way is to blame the teachers or parents. But that doesn’t change anything! And restorative justice does not work when there is no staff to immediately address the issue and follow through.

We need solutions. If punishment removal is not the solution for kids who can’t behave in class, what is?[/quote]

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