Popping in to ask a question

[oliviaaah]

Please may I ask, do you have directives from above with regard to discipline methods? Specifically, the use of whole class punishment for the misdemeanours of a few. This happened last year in my DSs class a lot and it has just happened again. I would like to ask that it be a policy not to use it. Is that reasonable? Feeling cross and need advice before I go in all guns blazing. This is in Primary School.

[oliviaaah]

Thanks for your comment Angels. The teacher is new to the school, (not to teaching) so I guess she's just asserting herself at the beginning and hopefully will loosen up a bit. Meanwhile I've got a very angry and indignant DS. I will let her know my thoughts and leave it at that.

[SignoraLiviaBurlando]

Definitely bad practice, and I would say, lazy practice.
Very unfair, but also counter-productive - alienating the ones who are behaving well - why should they behave well if they get punished anyway?

[SignoraLiviaBurlando]

Meant to add - lazy because the assumption is that the children will assert pressure on the miscreants - ion other words doing the teacher's job for her - very unprofessional.
If every single member of the class is behaving badly , has not done homework, or whatever the situation was, she should first look a the instructions she gave. If not all the class were involved, no way should this happen.

[Welliesandpyjamas]

Check your school behaviour policy and also the behaviour rules given and explained to the children. If they don't match the new teacher's approach, whether through ignorance/lack of training/lack of awareness/laziness/whatever, I should think the disparity between the two should be mentioned, maybe in writing, to the Head.

[oliviaaah]

Thank you for your replies. I'm glad to hear that it's generally deemed to be poor practice. That was my instinct about it.