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<p>Not really. It is primarily the parent’s/guardian’s job to properly socialize them to the point that they learned how to behave by the time they start first grade. The teacher’s job is to reinforce those teachings in the course of the school day. </p>
<p>A student with parents holding the quoted assumptions who misbehaved on the first day of kindergarten or first grade wouldn’t have been tolerated at the Catholic schools I’ve attended. </p>
<p>Sometimes, the level of strictness in first grade was taken to extremes as even fidgeting was considered sufficient grounds to be brought to the principal’s office and parents being called in and warned for the student to not repeat the behavior at the risk of being expelled. While there was no rapping of the knuckles with the ruler as was the case with older generations of students, they still had what most here would consider extremely strict behavior standards for elementary kids…even those in kindergarten or first grade. </p>
<p>On the other hand, the classroom environment was much better for learning than the comparatively greater chaotic classrooms which I heard prevailed at my local public elementary school and saw firsthand even at a supposedly academically above-average public middle school. </p>
<p>This was another factor in why I took the exam to get into my public magnet rather than risk being assigned to my local zoned high school which was not only rated one of the worst at the time for academic performance…but also for violent crime like knifing by violent students. </p>
<p>Do people seriously expect teachers to be able to teach when their students are not only violently disruptive to the point no lessons could happen, but also to the point the students/teachers are mainly thinking about how they’re going to survive another day without being violently beaten, stabbed, or possibly even shot?</p>