Posted on 02/26/2015 8:10:48 PM PST by Timber Rattler
A first-grader made to sit alone during lunch because of tardiness is forcing the Grants Pass school district to revisit its policy.
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Wasn't Mr. Abbott your principal?
Regards,
So they used that container as a dunce cap?
Why else did someone draw an upside-down D on it?
My kids went to school for a couple of years before we started homeschooling them. One was so pokey that he was always almost late. One day he was late and I was hoping they would give some sort of consequence, no luck. They didn’t do anything but tell him to do better in the future. After that he was slower than ever in the morning.
This, however, goes too far. A no peeking house (that’s what we called them back in the day) on top of being alone is terrible. Poor kid.
That is why he didn’t want to be in the “haul” :)
Mr. Abbott was my principal...
this is dumb... the punishment has nothing to do with the “crime.”
The schools just attract sadists who love being able to wield arbitrary power.
My dad was in a one room schoolhouse in Bucks County, PA ( Eastern Pennsylvania ) circa 1930, and famously, in our family history, would not allow the teacher to rap his knuckles with a ruler, by taking it from her. She went and got another, but he took that one too, whereupon she sent him home.
His brother was in the class, so there was no disguising the facts, and anyway my dad had no inclination to do so. His mother condoned his actions as being within his human rights. I don't recall the followup, but I don't think it made the papers in those days.
I had to sit at a “silent table” everyday for 4 months in 4th grade because I lost a progress folder or something. It wasn’t that big a deal.
His Dad probably missed his alarm, or his Mom took 5 minutes to make a cup of coffee, and so he was late. Late for what? Useless indoctrination. Daycare plus. Homeschool if you can, folks.
I was just thinking this slow moving grandma has made many of her g’kids a minute or two tardy before. Some of the schools I then had to go to the office to sign them in because they were a minute late! Not 15 or twenty but a minute.
I don’t think this is abuse, but it seems the punishment doesn’t fit the crime? Was he tardy for lunch?
When I was in 5th grade we moved a lot that year. We moved to Port Hueneme and my brother and I would walk to school together. There was a group of kids that wanted to “kick” our “butts”. The only way we could get to school without getting a beating was to take a longer route that these kids did not take. My teacher would humiliate me in front of the class because I would always be several minutes late. He made up stories of wild dogs eating me, drawing and quartering me... very vivid torture and the kids would laugh. Of course this made the bullies even more emboldened. They finally caught my brother and beat him, pounding his head into the concrete on the playground... no teacher intervened. I guess we deserved it. We were not from their town, strangers. The adults didn’t care.
It is abuse when you set up a kid to be an outcast among their peer group. The other kids do not forget the label they place on you. Scarlet letter.... may as well brand him.
This is school not prison.
You seem wound a little tight.
We had to kneel, on our hands
Nope... just don’t like it when public school authorities take it upon themselves to humiliate a kid. Parents should be called and involved with any punishment. You seem a bit callous.
Quite an usual scene here esp with no real documentation or extensive background information.
I am in no way endorsing the teacher’s judgement because no
one knows the facts.
It’s better to withhold judgement than just blankly say
public schooling is evil and this is a product of
the current admin in the WhiteHut
Does this happen in private schooling?
I’m curious
Best post on this thread.
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