Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

Yeah, no.

Maybe the first year back. There was a huge adjustment for students and Teachers. The students had to re-learn expected behaviors, class rules, and adjust to a curriculum that was more demanding. But that does not take 4 years. If parents had been supporting Teachers properly, it should have taken half a year, at most. The Teacher calls home or emails that there is an issue. The Parents work with the Teacher to correct the issue. The child learns that the Parents and Teachers are on the same page. Most issues would be resolved.

Instead, the Teacher called the Parents and the Parents either
1) ignored the phone call
2) gave the Teacher a BS excuse
3) told the Teacher they should have been in school last year and no learning online
4) some combination of the above.

The kids learned that they could get away with crappy behavior and it carried over to the next year and now continues with a group of kids 4 years later.

Stop blaming COVID for everything.

Anonymous wrote:It is against policy to have a group consequence. It has to be case by case. If your child is unfairly caught up in a group thing, you should voice your concerns to the teacher and admin. That teacher needs support.

🤣🤣🤣

When I was teaching almost 15 years ago in FCPS, we had a big training about collective punishment and were told not to do it. So basically, this is a decades out of date thing that teachers in FCPS are supposed to know not to do. But, it's FCPS, so there is no guarantee that a school is compliant with anything, and a lot of principals don't bother to keep things up to date. So that should not happen, and it's officially in FCPS behavior policy that it's not a good practice, but of course that won't help your child. Because, FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:It is against policy to have a group consequence. It has to be case by case. If your child is unfairly caught up in a group thing, you should voice your concerns to the teacher and admin. That teacher needs support.

Can you point us to the policy you mentioned?

It is against policy to have a group consequence. It has to be case by case. If your child is unfairly caught up in a group thing, you should voice your concerns to the teacher and admin. That teacher needs support.

So many of my kids look strung out on Monday mornings. Why? They are up late over the weekend on their devices. Some parents say they just let them take them to bed because they cry or scream when they try to take them away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

This is a cop out....parents still need to parent.
I had two third graders tell me how they were up past mid night playing on their phone....want to blame that on covid too?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

That doesn't explain kids who didn't even start school until the last few years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

That was 4 years ago. Four years should be enough time to correct the kids on how to say please and thank you, stand in line, and pick up their garbage. Parents have officially exceeded their timeline of blaming Covid for why their kids can’t behave.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

PP here. I hated school closures with a flaming fiery burning passion of a thousand splendid suns.

But I blame the parents if kids don't know how to behave. Trust me, I was in the office during Covid (essential employee) and DH was actually working during the day while at home, but our kids did not entirely forget how to respect adults - and the few minor things they needed reminding on thanks to being home so much during that time they were able to pick back up on.

It's the parenting and the lack of back-up/correct discipline from school admin (like the story above about the counselor who stepped in to cover for a kid), not Covid closures. Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:It happens at our school and my kids and I really hate it.

The school attempted to control the lunch room by assigning seats across entire grade levels, with the carrot that the kids would be allowed to pick their seats again if they stopped getting up to talk to their friends. It was just about one of the least effective things I can imagine.

I blame the school closure the kids forget how to behave in school. I can't blame them.

No, not normal and we had a teacher do this years ago and she was also crying in front of the class. I gently questioned the discipline method with her and had some research for her on ones that could help (I used to teach) and she lost it on me. I got admin involved. Turned out she was also documenting her struggles with rage on a blog the students followed.

Admin was useless at first, but I asked them to observe and things turned around.