In my positive experience, the teachers are strict with troublemakers. This is DD's second year in the class of 3-5 year olds. Two boys, aged 3, joined the class this past fall. They are trouble and the teachers would give them "time outs", they say they are not time outs but they have to sit at the desk until they understand what is going on.

The whole class would be going to Central Park for a walk and if they didn't behave, they would have to turn around and go back. So the whole class suffered, which is peer pressure. I would hear stories of these two boys not behaving, at bath time. I don't hear them anymore. It took a couple of months, but they behave.

Ren