My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.

Washington Post ^ | 07/24/2014 | By Tunette Powell

[PA Engineer]

Amen to that! Preschool is really daycare. Children do best at home with one loving constant caretaker, and that should be mom.

Dads do that too if the needs require. They even take pay cuts to be home in time for the bus. I understand. Just saying.

It really hit me the first time I dropped my Daughter off at day care. Yeah, they zeroed in on her for extra attention. She was a cherub always. Didn't make me feel any better. My Wife was a Doctor. The decision was a bit difficult. I'm glad I made it. LOL. She became an engineer. Don't know how that happened when her original intent was to become a doctor. ;-) BTTT.

P.S. There was a consensus. Doctors will know what this means. ABM Major!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Besides I do not affirm your premise that I am calling this particular conduct “boys being boys” per se.

I am calling it out as what it is — a misdirection, a harmful waste of boyish energy.

PLEASE get the distinction straight. If you can. There are more ways to view the world than through Catholic school eyes.

[RichInOC]

Granted there really are some bad seeds out there. Aside from them, I just find the concepts of formal suspensions or expulsions for preschoolers, as a general rule, a bit over the top.

[mountainbunny]

Granted there really are some bad seeds out there. Aside from them, I just find the concepts of formal suspensions or expulsions for preschoolers, as a general rule, a bit over the top.

Preschools (and honestly, probably most schools) expel students because they reach a point where they can't risk harm to the building/staff/other students. It sounds over the top, but what else can schools do?

There is something missing in the life of a child who repeatedly resorts to acts of violence against others, and it isn't the place of the school/staff/other children to bear the brunt. I'm not talking about one or two times, or hitting a child who "started it". Children who are repeatedly violent in school need to be removed.

No one thinks that this helps the child being expelled, but having them in school, harming others, isn't fair to everyone else.

Keep the chair-throwing, spitting, hitting child, and you're going to have lawsuits, no students, and no teachers.

[stocksthatgoup]

But Mom has a free phone!

[Hulka]

“Sorry, Mrs. Powell, but if either one of your sons threw a chair, spit on another child, or any of the other behaviors described in your article, they should’ve been disciplined and/or suspended.”

Reverse the situation, imagine her howling and rage at the school if her chillren’ were hit (by a chair no less) and spit in by some snotty brat and that brat was allowed to return to school and continue to inflict such attacks on her precious chil’.

[Tired of Taxes]

Good point! If the tables were turned, she would’ve written a slightly different article, probably on why bullies should be suspended or disciplined.