I don't know that but I believe it. The system is ...-backwards. They had HUGE funding cuts and lost a bunch of their aides and lunch supervisors. As a result of such poor staffing, the kids were crammed into the lunch room and out of control all the time. I caught a kid about to take his belt off and whip another. Bare in mind I was part of an outside agency, there only to work with MY kid, but since no one else was stopping it...I had to. Then they would get mad and force the entire classes to spend their entire recess sitting on the ground as punishment for their general out-of-controlness. Then they'd have all this pent up energy and it would just be an endless cycle. And the issue was SUPERVISION. They never engaged the kids. Just sent them onto the bare as bones playground and let them do whatever. So...no activities, no supervision. Bad behavior. For which these little kids were not really at fault. Yet they were punished.