Do all primary schools have behaviour issues?

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Looking for a new primary for (well behaved, fairly academic) DD and without exception every OFSTED mentions things like ‘a significant number of children who struggle with appropriate behaviour’, or similar phrases to this.

It’s really disheartening. DD’s current school has a lot of children who are behind or struggle with behaviour and I was hoping to move her to a classroom environment better suited to her. We live in a very average area, some more deprived areas, some very middle class, but this seems to be an issue wherever I look.

Do I just give up and accept basically all primaries are like this?

There is a major parenting and behaviour crisis universally. It's awful in some sections of society.

( looking for a school with "very low SEN" ) 😠

I completely agree this was an insensitive comment from OP, but i can see where she is coming from. As a school governor I can see the huge financial drain current SEN funding (or lack of it) places on school budgets. Every child is funded for approx 6k per year. If a child has SEN and no EHCP then any extra resources they need are coming out of the overall school budget, leaving less for other children.

None of this is the fault of children with SEN, but neither is it the fault of children without SEN.

I have seen school budgets eaten up by providing 1 to 1's who are not funded by the council but needed by a child, and then building repairs/new books/school trips/learning groups dont happen. My daughters school attracts many children with SEN due to its strong reputation for excellence, with an ARP and specialist teachers. The head was so passionate about this, but has seen the negative impact of this on the wider school funding availability, and the numbers just don't add up anymore, so she is considering closing the ARP, which would be an absolute last resort, but after many unanswered appeals for better funding have gone unanswered, it's hard to know what else to do.

You’re giving credit where it is not due. Ofsted. Go and look at schools and get a feel for them. Read the Ofsted report but hold it very lightly.

I'm in a deprived area and don't see that in OFSTED reports here. My youngest starts school in September so I've read a few reports and I've looked around schools recently. There's a really calm atmosphere and the children are polite. My child is SEN and the schools I have looked round have SEN children as I looked at the ones where the OFSTED reports had positive feedback on the SEND provision.