Schooling choices for 1st grader

[Windu]

Okay I think I understand the nuance here. Basically, you're saying that the teachers don't even try to keep the kids in check, so the kids do what any pack of unmanaged 7 year olds would do. Then the teacher just sends them to the office, when she should be enforcing discipline to keep the misbehavior from getting past square one. To the kids, that means it's okay to act up, but then suddenly they're being sent down the hall, and you're getting a phone call.

I get it, but I still have to say that my own "tactics" would ensure that my son understood what unfortunate occurrence was going to happen if I ever got another call from the school about discipline, and that would be flashing in his frontal lobe (not in the back of his mind) as he sits in class contemplating his next move. :-)

[anothermom]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

Are you planning on moving? You can't just pick the school you want to send your kid to, so unless you plan on relocating to try to solve this problem, you're SOL.

Actually, GA has a new parent choice law now. We parents CAN choose to take our children to a different public school within our district, as long as that other school is at least 4 years old, and has room for the new students. I don't know how you go about transferring them, though.

Here's a link about school choice in GA:

Parents have power to pick their kids' schools | ajc.com

As far as the original poster asking about area schools, I have to agree that the problem is not the school, but the child's consequences for his behavior.

I would suggest that his parent consider having him apologize to his teacher for being disruptive. It worked wonders for my son. When he was in the 3rd grade, he showed disrespect toward a visiting teacher in front of his classmates, my husband and I arrainged for that teacher to stop by my son's classroom so that my son could apologize to this teacher, in front of the entire class. We felt that he had disrespected the teacher in front of the class, so he could apologize in front of the class.

In the 6th grade, I got an email saying that my son was getting up, wandering around the classroom while the teacher was teaching. I went up to the school and had my son apologize to this teacher after school.

Kids are like adults in that they hate to apologize, also. If we teach them to have the utmost respect for their teachers, and that disrespect equals having to apologize, that can do wonders for a kid's behavior.

[Sweet Atlanta Peach]

Originally Posted by anothermom

Actually, GA has a new parent choice law now. We parents CAN choose to take our children to a different public school within our district, as long as that other school is at least 4 years old, and has room for the new students. I don't know how you go about transferring them, though.

Here's a link about school choice in GA:

Parents have power to pick their kids' schools | ajc.com

As far as the original poster asking about area schools, I have to agree that the problem is not the school, but the child's consequences for his behavior.

I would suggest that his parent consider having him apologize to his teacher for being disruptive. It worked wonders for my son. When he was in the 3rd grade, he showed disrespect toward a visiting teacher in front of his classmates, my husband and I arrainged for that teacher to stop by my son's classroom so that my son could apologize to this teacher, in front of the entire class. We felt that he had disrespected the teacher in front of the class, so he could apologize in front of the class.

In the 6th grade, I got an email saying that my son was getting up, wandering around the classroom while the teacher was teaching. I went up to the school and had my son apologize to this teacher after school.

Kids are like adults in that they hate to apologize, also. If we teach them to have the utmost respect for their teachers, and that disrespect equals having to apologize, that can do wonders for a kid's behavior.

Actually, someone started a thread about this (parents being able to choose their child's school). The key to this, however, is there has to be room. As lastminute mom said in the thread about this topic(not quoting her directly but something like this ), it will be difficult to be able to get your child into these top notch schools because of the people who have actually moved there to enroll their kids in these schools, thus pushing the numbers to the enrollment limit because of how top notch these schools are. However, this does give hope to parents that want a better education for their children, it's just not as easy as it sounds.