Reply To: Medicating vs Spanking

syag > you don’t seem to have a lot of positive comments

You are not reading my comments correctly. I may sound more negative than I am because I am sharing my concerns here. I have a great view from my windows, would you learn anything if I shared that with you!?

I have a lot of positive feelings towards teachers in Jewish schools who are underpaid, many care about kids, and many are not well prepared for their jobs I have even MORE rachmonus for those kids, that is why I am sharing my own concerns and concerns that I learned from others and sharing them with parents and teachers who might find some of it useful.

I always appreciate those teachers who were great to the kids and or at least tried. say, a teacher who put herself at some risk to recommend to me to take a kid out of a class she said is very bad. When I thanked her and said we are taking her a class up. She opened her eyes wide and said – no, you should take her a class down. The kid went up and is doing excellent, bli ayin hara. She obviously cared, but did not understand how the kid learned. What if we listened and sent a kid in a class 2 years below his ability?