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OR...maybe he is just a punk who needs to be suspended to teach him a lesson. I mean, people whine and complain all the time when kids turn violent them blame the schools because "they saw the signs and didn't do anything!!". Perhaps you should be praising them for being pro-active
I like to tell people that they have options. Home-schooling where it is legal.
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My 9 year-old was suspended for a day for doodling 2 stick figures, in his words "bad guys" shooting each other. He's a good kid, never gets into trouble. That's what 9 year-old boys do, they draw guns, planes, bombs, all those good things. The zero tolerance policy goes overboard, but I didn't appeal his suspension. Sadly kids have to learn to live within the bounds of the rules no matter how silly they seem. But parents have brought this on themselves with their incessant whining about every solitary thing, and now the principals are bound by zero tolerance, and can not use their discression when assessing each incident.
OR...maybe he is just a punk who needs to be suspended to teach him a lesson. I mean, people whine and complain all the time when kids turn violent them blame the schools because "they saw the signs and didn't do anything!!". Perhaps you should be praising them for being pro-active
How does it teach him a lesson? He is in kindergarten. To him, it is just a day off to watch cartoons.
If he is a problem child and shows poor behavior, the teacher should be able to pull out the ruler and spank the child.
Then agian, these days that is worse than the death penalty. Better to send him home so he can watch the latest epidsode of scooby doo. That will teach him!
I swear, Dr. Spock was the worst thing that happened to child development practices.
How does it teach him a lesson? He is in kindergarten. To him, it is just a day off to watch cartoons.
If he is a problem child and shows poor behavior, the teacher should be able to pull out the ruler and spank the child.
Then agian, these days that is worse than the death penalty. Better to send him home so he can watch the latest epidsode of scooby doo. That will teach him!
I swear, Dr. Spock was the worst thing that happened to child development practices.
I don't know. How do schools discipline anyone these days? Or do they?
I don't know. How do schools discipline anyone these days? Or do they?
I think that's part of the problem. When I was in school, if I misbehaved, I got the hard side of the paddle and then when my mother picked me up, I got it again after my dad got home.
It was a real incentive to not misbehave, but hey, this is the enlightened age. Flip your teacher the bird, tell your mother and father to go .... themselves and you get a corner or solitude to "think" about your bad ways.
A far cry from the days where your father handed you a pocket knife and told you to go cut off a branch to be switched with (and it had better not be too small). *chuckle*
(Sigh) Well, my son and two of his friends were suspended one day for "gang signing". As I was on my way to the school to see what the hell they were talking about () the mother of one of the other kids involved called me and asked me to stop by her office before I went to the school. She then informs me that she had taken care of this 'problem' and the insidious "gang signs" the school was freaking out about was our boys playing Spider Man. Holding their fingers like Peter Parker throwing webs... So I do believe that school officials are a bit quick to see malicious activity where none exists. This particular lady, who was the first to get to the school as her office is only a half block up, is a very ...formidable...gal. LMAO, she was NOT happy with this idiocy. It does not surprise me that a finger gun could get a kid suspended in these times we live in. Little boys are not allowed to even play tough these days. There seems to be a marked trend for the schools to wish our kids to be namby pamby little woosies. I am surely glad we do not live in a big city, if a rural ranching and farming area school gets this wound up over Spider Man hand, what is it like in large urban schools me wonders?
OMFG!! Fox "news" hasn't covered this story yet???
OMFG! It took this long for someone to try and digress this into yet another tedious left vs right pile of jibberish??
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I don't like zero tolerance but the article did say they had been having problems with this kid so I'm going to assume, as usual, there is more to the story.
Most likely. Wait what am I saying, the media doesn't ever distort things for the sake of attention grabbing......
Re the discipline, far as I can tell it's gone TOTALLY bizarro. I've talked to many teachers about this and subbed myself some....sure the "bad" ones are the exception, but in terms of being able to deal w/them, kids gets away with a ridiculous degree of BS nowdays, God forbid you should so much as look at them cross-eyed...teacher's authority has been shredded out of fear of the almighty lawsuit. Yet some of the silliness stuff kids do get in trouble for - I heard of one where a very young (I think about 6) boy kissed a girl and was suspended. Yeah good call, there's a sex fiend in the making
OMFG! It took this long for someone to try and digress this into yet another tedious left vs right pile of jibberish??
Most likely. Wait what am I saying, the media doesn't ever distort things for the sake of attention grabbing......
Re the discipline, far as I can tell it's gone TOTALLY bizarro. I've talked to many teachers about this and subbed myself some....sure the "bad" ones are the exception, but in terms of being able to deal w/them, kids gets away with a ridiculous degree of BS nowdays, God forbid you should so much as look at them cross-eyed...teacher's authority has been shredded out of fear of the almighty lawsuit. Yet some of the silliness stuff kids do get in trouble for - I heard of one where a very young (I think about 6) boy kissed a girl and was suspended. Yeah good call, there's a sex fiend in the making
He should have kissed another little boy, instead.
The school would probably have given him an award for his acceptance of homosexuality.
Kiss another GIRL.........well that's just wrong and a sexual assault on feminists everywhere.
He'll NEVER do that again!
He'll just grow up (with his mind warped by these "educators") into a confused gay......who really isn't....but feels he has to be.... because he believes all women are off limits thanks to making such a huge mistake at such an early age.
Yeah.....I can see why the feminization of males in America is so evident thesedays.
I can also see how animosity can eventually turn into pure hate, as a result.
Thanks public "education" for WARPING another generation of American youth.
OMFG!! Fox "news" hasn't covered this story yet???
They covered it when it first broke.
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) the mother of one of the other kids involved called me and asked me to stop by her office before I went to the school. She then informs me that she had taken care of this 'problem' and the insidious "gang signs" the school was freaking out about was our boys playing Spider Man. Holding their fingers like Peter Parker throwing webs.
. Little boys are not allowed to even play tough these days. There seems to be a marked trend for the schools to wish our kids to be namby pamby little woosies. I am surely glad we do not live in a big city, if a rural ranching and farming area school gets this wound up over Spider Man hand, what is it like in large urban schools me wonders?
