Schools

When I was in school, back when I was in school, things were so different. Classes were smaller, there was more one on one, teachers actually cared about their children. The schools these days are so much different than that.
Our children are attending the same school that their father did when he was growing up. This school used to be great, but they have lost site of what made them great. We have always talked about moving in to the country, outside of town,but, at the same time wanting to keep our children in the same school district, not anymore. We have noticed are are now having an unbelievable amount of problems with this school, and we are not the only ones. It seems to be to difficult for the teachers to actually teach, there is no one on one, and the seemingly growing solution for the children now, is to send them to behavioral rooms and home phone calls about putting them all on medication.
Our youngest spent the entire first part of his kindergarten year in what they call the PBS Room. This is where they send the children who do not act like the small soldiers that they are expecting them to be. We have also received 36 phone calls this year telling me that my son needs to be medicated, and not just meds, but also giving me lists of therapists. The surprising thing is, we transferred him out of the room he was in, and guess what, No More Problems! Well and after a big fight with the school. But our son is not the only one, our daughter, our neighbors son, the little girl down the street, all the same problems, and according to the school, they all need to be medicated!
What is happening to our schools? Have they all become to big for their britches? Has the public image of them gone to their heads? Have they forgot what they are truly there to do? I'm not sure what the answer is, or what we can really do about it. There is no more focus on the student, their focus is how much money can we get and making you feel bad when you can't give anymore. They push the envelope and accuse you of not caring about the children when you do not stuff it with money.
This is not the way things should be, and we wonder why our children have problems. Maybe it is not our children, or the things we teach them, maybe it is the environment we send them to every day.