Schools method of discipline AIBU

[Ninjafox]

Not sure if I'm being precious but I'm sure I'll be told either way now. Found out today that DC's school discipline naughty children by sending them to another class to sit on a chair.

My thoughts are this is worse than a telling off as they are actively showing the other children 'look at this naughty child' and humiliating them. This happens as young as reception. At least if they are sent to the head they get a telling off and that's more or less the end of it. It feels a bit like the village stocks or a public flogging. AIBU to think this is a bit off? For reference the school is in a really good catchment and the naughty kids of whom I know a few seem quite mildly naughty tbh.

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Tilda you are really deluded if you think a "please don't throw snowballs at me because it hurts" is going to change a child's behaviour. Until that child's parents acknowledge the behaviour is unacceptable and teach them otherwise, the school has a battle on its hands, which it can only fight with a clear policy on behaviour and sanctions. What would you propose, by the way, instead of removal from a classroom for a disruptive student? Shall we just have a little word in their ear about not doing it again, whilst the learning of 29 others is negatively impacted on a repeated basis? I think you'd be saying otherwise if your child's education were being consistently disrupted. I suspect OP won't be back and will tell herself that she stumbled inadvertently into a strange forum for teachers and bitches, rather than listen to the words of the vast majority telling her to change her ways...

Hi, just stopping by to say we've deleted a number of posts by a previously banned poster who was clearly here to goad...

Hopefully we can get this thread back on track now, but please do report any other posts that raise an eyebrow.

Tilda you are really deluded if you think a "please don't throw snowballs at me because it hurts" is going to change a child's behaviour

I’m an experienced teacher of 18 years. So not so deluded

I’m enjoying the misapprehension that LSAs are there as some sort of general crowd control tool. Their time is intricately planned to ensure they can help specific groups of children to succeed. Sometimes this may be a child or group of children who struggle, for whatever reason, with boundaries or working quietly. Other times it will be children who’ve been identified as needing reinforcement of yesterday’s literacy lesson, or a VI child who needs help negotiating the resources that same LSA spent his or her break time enlarging and copying.

A good LSA is incredibly valuable and works with the teacher where possible to plan for the best outcomes. It’s an insult to suggest that they should be there just in case a child decides to sit and talk their way through circle time, or whatever.

OP, you’re being unreasonable. Not only that, you’re making it stonkingly clear that your ideas about what actually happens in the classroom are far removed from the reality of teaching and learning.

I could go on but I don’t want to.

Just to say, my comment above is aimed at OP, not the hundreds of level headed types who understand who does what in a classroom.

I was a terror at school - even in Reception.
I was always in trouble.
Being sent to another room to calm down for 5 minutes would have been nice.

What was humiliating was being made to stand up in front of the class for 3 minutes, where I was sat at my table, where everyone would stare at me. I hated that.

It was humiliating to be constantly picked on by my teacher. After a while, some kids would deliberately get me in trouble. Spiteful.

None of them bothered to find out what was going on at home or why my mind was so restless and incapable of focus.

Sitting on a chair quietly away from their class sounds like a reasonable way to deal with behaviour. It removes them from the situation that is distracting them or aggravating them. Gives them time to think about their actions. Gives the teacher the opportunity to educate the other children (which they deserve).

They are not sat on a chair with a Dunce hat on.

It's interesting that you are so critical. What would you deem a valid and non-humiliating way of dealing with a disruptive child?

TildaTurnip I've taught in schools where that technique would work and others where it would have been a sign to the pupils that they could do exactly whatever they wanted. If you have 18 years experience you must understand this? Unless it's one school, one age group?

Unless it's one school, one age group?
Not at all. It isn’t what works between schools, it is what works for individual children. Giving a small child some space and time to calm down and work through behaviour issues is very different to sending them to another class for punishment.

TildaTurnip

but that is the point isn't it, what works for one doesn't work for all.
Some children will stop at the first telling off, others will push it until they get sent out.

Hail hail BoneyBackJefferson. It's bloody hard when you have to explain it to Children, parents AND colleagues....

Considering what you think is right and wrong and how you have posted here, I'm not the least bit surprised on your claim that your precious child is worse behaved at home than school. .

specterlitt yowsers you searched out this old thread to tell off the OP, who is long gone. That's her told!

@FlibbertyGiblets I'm so daft, I was linked this to read and didn't even check the date What happened to that message from MN that says this is an old thread, go away

But yes I sure told her haha.. ahhh thanks for pointing it out at least!

Havent read through whole thread, but on secondary it is very typical to remove a student to another classroom.... yes they will sit down in there? We wouldn't make them stand!

I'm 64 and I was caned when I was 6.

And you call this bad

And I'm certainly not saying that it didn't do me any harm. I wouldn't still remember it now if that was the case