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When my preschooler came home from preschool and announced, “I don’t like boys.  They don’t listen to the teacher when she reads at circle time,” I instantly imagined a chaotic preschool classroom scene–envisioning a room overflowing with four year old boy energy.  After reading about preschoolers behaving badly in the classroom and the rising number of preschool expulsions, I couldn’t help but feel relieved knowing that the only apparent behavioral issue in my preschooler’s classroom involves boys who like to pretend they are dinosaurs rather than listen quietly to a book about ones long extinct.

Rude and dangerous behavior–tantrums, biting, kicking, yelling–among preschoolers is sweeping across the country.  A Yale Study has found that some preschools are resorting to student expulsion as a solution.  Apparently, behavioral problems are increasingly plaguing both public and private programs.

Have you had to deal with aggressive behavior in your child’s preschool?  What advice do you have for new parents considering a preschool program for their child? 

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