Looks like you are going to have to spill the beans to get meaningful advice.

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A 14 year old male student J in a coop class of twelve is talking to a classmate during teacher presentation. Teacher walks by his desk and taps J and his classmate's shoulders gently as a nonverbal reminder to stop disrupting class. Classmate settles down. J is talking again. Teacher speaks J's name in a normal tone with raised eyebrows as a second reminder. Within a few minutes, J is again disrupting class. Coop teacher in a firm sharp tone of voice says, "J, knock it off!" Is that offensive to you as a parent? Is "knock it off" inappropriate for a coop? Is "knock it off" too harsh an admonition to an ADHD student?

I had quite the crush on Arlo.

Peter Paul and Mary performed the hit version. I ate lemons when I was suffering from frequent severe vomiting while pregnant.

We've been wearing sweaters inside and putting extra blankets on bed and throws on couches.

Neither incident could get me too excited although the f-word one was of more substance than this one. This one reeks of tattling to me. My kid would be shushing her friends as they tried to tell the story because she would not want to suffer the consequences of her disruptive behavior.

I was wondering what JAWM meant. The first google hit was Junior Achievment of Western Massachusetts.

Swearing does not offend me. Sexism does.

I suspect that reporters call up Pat on a slow newsday.

Oh yeah, the fundraising raises my hackles! Why do people think it is ok to ask other people to help finance a pleasure trip for their children?

Two of my highschoolers were "nominated" by a publich school teacher neighbor of ours. I use quotes around nominated because part of P2P's marketing strategy is to attempt to persuade that a great honor has been bestowed upon their child. In reality, it is nothing more than a travel agency. They do have a few meetings prior to trip where students make presentations on countries they will be visiting. The price was high, but my students enjoyed the trip. However, it probably would cost less if you made the arrangements yourself.

Unfortunately going to "study hall" at our co-op meant you were supervised by one parent who had study hall duty that day. The atmosphere could range anywhere from quietly working to rowdy conversing with friends, depending upon which parent was on duty.

I would end the sentence with a comma followed by direct address proper noun and be done with it. "What race are you training for, Jane?"

Particularly since immigration has a negative connotation to it these days. BJU did not admit African Americans until sometime in the 1970s.

Thank you ! Thank you! Thank you! For too many parents, disorder diagnoses are used more as excuse for outlandish behavior instead of an explanation for it. Like yours, my special needs kid was not placed in a traditional or co-op classroom setting until she had skills to conduct herself appropriately. It was not fair to teachers or to other students to allow her to disrupt their learning and teaching efforts.

Being a co-op teacher as well being privvy to talk among ps parents about encounters with teachers is what dramatically increased my empathy for traditional school teachers.

Yes, it is ironic how people sometimes think they have made their point because others avoid or tread lightly around them when, in fact, reasonable people do not want to suffer through further exchanges with them. I probably would have had offending student sit up front with me instead of rewarding him by evicting him from classroom unless there was a monitored study hall I could have sent him to for misbehavior. I certainly would not have been as gracious to original poster as the teacher in question was.

:iagree::iagree::iagree: I have an image of aggressive homeschool moms reeming cowering boot camp instructors for being harsh with their sons.

The parents, not the kids, were what drove me away from co-op teaching. I, too, would have evicted boisterous student who did not respond to correction.

I think it should have ended with your son's apology.

Those are the repercussions for surrounding yourself with yes men.

When that someone lives a mere block from strip shopping center and chooses to walk to Target instead of drive. The Target or Walgreen's shopping carts would sit in neighbor's yard in our old neighborhood until her next shopping trip.

A real possibility of anaphylactic shock is scarier to me than a remote possibility of sterilization.

At first I thought the aunt was going overboard by visiting ER. Just got word that my daughter's boyfriend's grandfather fell last night and bled to death internally, never realizing he had a serious injury.