[mckenzie7]

I was at my grandson's kindergarten class and a parent was discussing with the teacher her and her husbands total lack of control of their son. It was within earshot of the brat. I stayed with my grandson and the boy WAS out of control. It was chaos in that classroom.
The next day I went back to the classroom and there was an older substitute teacher. After the child ran around the classroom, yelling and screaming she tried to settle him down. He climbed up on the arm of a chair and proceeded to jump down on the children drawing on the mat below him. She finally had enough and took him to the office and refused to allow him back into her classroom. The other children that were acting up when he was there, settled down after the bad influence was removed. From there on, it was a learning atmosphere.
When you can't control a kindergarten age child, what will they be like when they are older?
Whose children lose out when the classroom time is devoted to trying to control obnoxious children rather than teaching?

[bobby.223]

well said Mck. then as soon as the little monster really goes goofy, stabs 2 classmates in the eye with a pencil or something along that line....damn. I do not condone the police coming into the school for this tho, your example of an older teacher working out the problem was def. the proper response I believe.

[brytlea]

I have several friends who teach kindergarten and 1st grade. They say the kids get worse every year, and most are just counting the days til they can retire. But, go to any public place and see how kids act there. It’s all I can do to hold my tongue while I watch a parent BEG their child to behave and then doing absolutely nothing with the child either ignores them or tells them no.
Case in point, I was at the PO Friday mailing a package. A man walked in with 2 kids (and his dog, why are people bringing their dogs into places like the Post Office??). At any rate, the youngest child (she looked about 5ish) ignored virtually everything her Dad asked her to do. Then she walked out of the doors into the outer part (where the post office boxes are) and could easily have walked right out the door and into the street. The Dad told the older boy (he looked about 9) to go get her. The boy refused. Dad stood there in line and kept asking the boy to get his sister. Finally, the little girl came back in on her own. She was never reprimanded for going out there. I’m sorry, but these kids are in charge. That is completely nuts. But, such are parents today. It’s no wonder kids do not behave in school. They don’t behave anywhere else either.