The lack of discipline at D65 is outrageous. Our final year was filled with lack of discipline. It was complete chaos. That was the ultimate reason we left. It wasn’t safe.
The teacher quit mid-year with three day’s notice (there I guess was more notice if you took into account the Thanksgiving break). It was rumored the teacher left because the kids were out of control. If she did leave for this reason she is not to be blamed. Regardless, both the substitute teacher and the permanent teacher (who was ultimately hired) would have days where they would cry openly in front of the class. (This is not their fault, they were kind and good people.) On at least 2 occassions the teacher would tell the student to leave the classroom and go to the principal’s office (student calls teacher a name is one example, student steals something from teacher’s desk is another example) then student refused to go to principal, teacher calls office and student is never sent to principal’s office.
One day, a student who had been repeatedly physically aggressive with both of my kids flipped a chair across the room, lodged a water bottle at another classmate while swearing. The District’s response to this was having a peace circle and in that peace circle asking the classroom students what they did to escalate this situation. I guess the District would like to get the kids ready to be victims of domestic violence. There were so many peace circles that on several occasions important subjects like math were missed.
A child also brought a BB gun to school.
When students would complain they were having their hair pulled or being hit, the teacher’s responses (specials teachers included) would be to “ignore it.” Obviously, ignoring it does not work. Ignoring it is what caused D65 to lose 20 percent of its students and require intervention from the Federal Government.
The lack of discipline at D65 is outrageous. Our final year was filled with lack of discipline. It was complete chaos. That was the ultimate reason we left. It wasn’t safe.
The teacher quit mid-year with three day’s notice (there I guess was more notice if you took into account the Thanksgiving break). It was rumored the teacher left because the kids were out of control. If she did leave for this reason she is not to be blamed. Regardless, both the substitute teacher and the permanent teacher (who was ultimately hired) would have days where they would cry openly in front of the class. (This is not their fault, they were kind and good people.) On at least 2 occassions the teacher would tell the student to leave the classroom and go to the principal’s office (student calls teacher a name is one example, student steals something from teacher’s desk is another example) then student refused to go to principal, teacher calls office and student is never sent to principal’s office.
One day, a student who had been repeatedly physically aggressive with both of my kids flipped a chair across the room, lodged a water bottle at another classmate while swearing. The District’s response to this was having a peace circle and in that peace circle asking the classroom students what they did to escalate this situation. I guess the District would like to get the kids ready to be victims of domestic violence. There were so many peace circles that on several occasions important subjects like math were missed.
A child also brought a BB gun to school.
When students would complain they were having their hair pulled or being hit, the teacher’s responses (specials teachers included) would be to “ignore it.” Obviously, ignoring it does not work. Ignoring it is what caused D65 to lose 20 percent of its students and require intervention from the Federal Government.