LostTexan42 Deal With It
12/11/15 7:48 pm
Agree with the idea that removing a trouble maker helps the other students. It's not the job of teachers to focus on one child at the expense of others. I am disappointed in this clearly biased poll.
The solution to this is not to remove discipline from the children. It's to get the parents more involved. A student causing distractions with inappropriate clothing needs to be removed. That inappropriate clothing was bought and worn with the OK of the parents. They're as much to blame if not more than the child. When growing up in a Texas district, all parents were required to sign a student code of conduct at the beginning of the year. Teaching a student that there is consequences for their actions or inactions is a very important lesson in life.
MrsCrayonWax
12/11/15 8:50 pm
I'm sure there are exaggerations but Pam, trust me when I say you need the whole picture. For example. Kid comes to school with steak knife with a plan to kill all the adults. Plan is deemed well thought out and student deemed capable of carrying out plan. He's banned from bringing any weapon or making any weapon or fashioning any weapon out of common objects. He fashions a candy cane into an extremely sharp point. He then tries to make other stabbing type weapons out of classroom objects. He pisses in a bottle and mixes it with ice tea and tries to serve it to an adult. He brings his ADHD medication to school to try to slip it in someone's drink. Anyone he can hurt. Does any of that sound innocent?
MrsCrayonWax
12/11/15 8:20 pm
It's not the rules. Kids will have to follow rules their entire lives. It's not always the teachers. I will say there are some teachers who don't pick their battles appropriately but generally a suspension is a result of some sort of negative behavior. That's on the kid. Some examples would be physical violence or violent acts or threats, weapons brought to school, inappropriate touch, etc. these were all things that occurred as early as k. Teachers in regular Ed aren't equipped to deal with these new behavioral phenomena because it's not covered in grad school or they've found themselves in a setting where bad behavior is the norm. The solution is to teach teachers how to manage environments and mitigate behaviors and not escalate. All this while imploring behavior modification. Not enough adult bodies to go around :(
PamGH SW Washington
12/11/15 7:55 pm
Whipped? Dictionary: having been flogged and beaten by a whip. Really? I grow weary. The lack of understanding basic science is going to drive me into my grave. Might I respectfully suggest you take some classes or read some books about child development, abuse, overuse of negative reinforcements, and so on.
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