OP, I appreciate what you are saying. It doesn’t match what my kids are telling me. My daughters are very quick to complain to me about all levels of misbehavior by their peers and they haven’t said anything this week except to tell me about the movies and parties. So I don’t think it’s happening at our schools—at least not any worse than it was all year.

In general, classrooms aren’t really the issue. Buses and recess are where the real problems are, but given the staffing there, I’m not surprised. The kids at our schools really like most teachers and the teachers get their best behavior. They all seem to dislike and not respect the playground aides and bus drivers (although our school now has one playground wide that I hear is well respected and liked).

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

You choose in person and knew the risks. So, stop complaining about covid.

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Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

It sounds like the teachers have lost control. I wouldn't blame children.

Yes yes definitely blame the teachers, not your precious snowflake who is sassy and talking back. What can the repercussions be? Take away recess? Oh no--they must not have their play time removed. Lower their grade? Can't do that, parents complain when their kid who barely did homework doesn't get an A. Take away their phones?? Personal property!!! Yeah it's not the teacher's fault; they are trying SO hard.

I'm with the parents on this one, with kids not getting home untill 4-5pm and having bedtimes as low as 8:00pm they don't get enough time to them self's even without homework.

Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Why are they still in school on June 15? Summer is in six days. Let these kids have summer. Everyone must be so burned out at this point. Your school year is too long.

Anonymous wrote:1.5 days!

Let’s go!

1.5 days!

Anonymous wrote:Schools over. The kids are done. Just ride it out.

We're all done. Students. Teachers. Admin. Paras.

So ready for summer!

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Anonymous wrote:So, as a parent what are you doing about it.

I work in a school. That's how I know the behaviors are bad--I see it first hand. I work with different grades and it's bad all around.

In my opinion--parents care more about being friends with their kids than disciplining. Students don't respect adults anymore.

yup.

True.

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Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight. You're on the verge of summer vacation and students are both frustrated and acting out? And the teachers think that this is a fatal flaw of the students - that they act out near summer vacation and don't respect the status quo?



Wow. You're right. A real revelation here.

And what's your point? Why are you so defensive?

Not defensive. Just pointing out a tried and true phenomenon that happens around this time of year EVERY YEAR. Pre-pandemic, 1980s 1950s, it just is what happens at the end of the school year.

The sarcasm was used to point out how ridiculous these school worker posters are.

Hey, no sh!t, kids want to be out of school on June 15! That's why movies and class parties were created.

This year is different, it's way worse than it has been.

Well, yeah, it's going to be tougher dealing with kids at the end of the year in real life vs. Zoom

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Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight. You're on the verge of summer vacation and students are both frustrated and acting out? And the teachers think that this is a fatal flaw of the students - that they act out near summer vacation and don't respect the status quo?



Wow. You're right. A real revelation here.

And what's your point? Why are you so defensive?

Not defensive. Just pointing out a tried and true phenomenon that happens around this time of year EVERY YEAR. Pre-pandemic, 1980s 1950s, it just is what happens at the end of the school year.

The sarcasm was used to point out how ridiculous these school worker posters are.

Hey, no sh!t, kids want to be out of school on June 15! That's why movies and class parties were created.

This year is different, it's way worse than it has been.

It's the last week of school, inattention and work refusal should be expected from all students.

If the behaviors are worse than that and are unprovoked by a weird teacher insisting they have to teach supremely dull minutiae (hope that's not you, OP!)... unless it's something to call police over, I'm not sure the administration or the parents are going to pay attention either!