Posted on 03/02/2015 4:34:26 AM PST by bryan999
The family of an Oregon first-grader is outraged that his school forced the boy to sit by himself during lunch as punishment for being late.
The boy’s grandmother, Laura Hoover, took to Facebook to protest his retribution with photos of Hunter sulking into a cardboard wall blocking his view of a cafeteria bustling with his peers.
“His momma’s car sometimes doesn’t like to start right up. Sometimes he’s a couple minutes late to school. Yesterday, he was one minute late,” Hoover wrote. “This is what his momma discovered they do to punish him.”
His mother, Nicole Garloff, came to check on little Hunter at Lincoln Elementary in Grants Pass on Tuesday and ended up taking him home. She found him staring at his stark food tray in tears over the whole ordeal.
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True dat but
How do you propose schools deal with habitual tardiness or truancy? Suspension? Stay after school to complete missed work? I say he spends lunch period doing makeup work with an aide every time he misses class opening with a quiz or worksheet he doesn’t complete
Far less humiliating
Interesting.
My son had a football coach two years ago who made any player who was late for practice for any reason run extra laps and/or sprints.
He did not listen to the “it’s not my fault, my mom/dad didn’t get me here on time” excuse - nor any other excuse. If the boy was late, he ran. The coach never asked the moms or dads run.
At the start of the season there were a lot of kids whose moms/dads didn’t get their boys to practice on time.
A funny thing happened, though. By about two weeks in to the season almost no one had a mom/dad who didn’t get their son to practice on time.
And I’ll bet that football coach has no idea he is a liberal.
According to his grandmother.
Maybe she oughta drag out of bed earlier
The boy (that's b-o-y, not M-A-N) did nothing wrong.
I hereby sentence you to 5 minutes behind a cardboard barrier of your own design. And no, I repeat,
> This would have never happened to a black kid.
To be fair, the neighborhood probably doesn’t have any black kids, that’s why white libs move there in the first place.
> What do they do to teachers that are late...?
I assume that’s a rhetorical question? ;’)
Football is optional. The kids who didnt want to run could quit the team. This little boy had no options or control over this situation.
and of course your child was innocent of all wrong.
Give me a break. Teacher’s are placed in a straight jacket when it comes to maintaining any level of discipline in the class and parents like you are more concerned about your little baby getting singled out for bad behaviour than working to correct the source of that bad behaviour.
Perhaps parents like you should be made to suffer the discipline and then maybe you would care enough to help make our schools a better environment.
I repeat:
“Well thank God we are done with that mess, the teacher is fired (hoisted on her own petard, not because of anything I did) and my son is graduated and, matter of fact, that school is closed.”
So put that in your pipe and smoke it, buddy.
In a non-harmful way, the school is sending a message to the mother to get her act together. Thanks to bleeding hearts and liberals, the schools have no other leverage when it comes to discipline problems fostered by the bad behaviour of parents.
This is outrageous! To hurt/segregate/put negative focus on that little boy? Good going teachers.. now you have a kid who will hate school. Do you think he won’t remember the rest of his life sitting behind a board and removed from his “school society?” My ES principal would never, EVER think about doing something like this. Neither would our teachers.
And how would you suggest punishing the parent for the parent’s mistake?
The mother has a responsibility, it is her child, not the schools, not the counties, not the states. She has the responsibility. The transgression has occurred six times this year already and the year is barely half over. The mother is obviously not taking steps to correct it. You are making excuses for the mother’s bad behaviour with no basis in fact.
I am interested in not making her son into a woman hating pyschopath. When exactly did teachers take control over all of society? We must bow to them?
The child is habitually late. That is the offense being addressed. The are punishing the child for violating a rule. Under today’s laws that is the extent of what the school can do.
“What we have here is a miniature Third Reich. ......Government school should be abolished!”
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To compare the reasonable disciplining of a school boy to the entity that exterminated more than 6 million people is asinine.
And in regards to “Government Schools”, if this had been the Catholic school that I attended, there would have been a lot more than this. If I failed to do an assignment, or was continuously late, my parents would get a call- not just to let them know that I was in trouble, but to catch hell themselves. That is the real key to private school education, they require the parents to be involved, where the public schools tolerate parental involvement (at best).
If the parent had any character she would appreciate the effort that the school is putting in to molding the child into a responsible person. Maybe the mother could have benefitted from such lessons when she was young.
Leave earlier is the answer.
If you are five minutes early, you are ten minutes late.
Well said.
This discipline is misdirected. Momma needs “help” with HER truancy. She is the one who needs to be humiliated. It’s her JOB to get her son to school on time. When the boy becomes a man, employers will not tolerate tardiness.
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