Silver Gate Elementary051

Students are pushed in excess in order to maintain the school's "high scores" and academic achievement award. With teachers who yell and embarass the students and constantly use recess deprivation as a punitive measure, students are too afraid to do anything other than conform and turn robotic, thus being "good students" and getting those scores. There is little positive reinforcement, although negativity abounds. Few parents sit in on the classes and observe and the kids say little, as a punitive day in elementary school is their norm. Whatever happened to the good ol' days of rewarding good behavior instead of constantly bringing up and parading "bad" or poor behavior? Even a whisper in line will get you benched from recess!