Now I will easily say that my precious DS (in year 3) is not at all perfect, he plays up sometimes and misbehaves. But at school, since nursery, they have a traffic light system and he has never been on amber. None of his teacher ever ever had to speak to me after school, they always praise his behaviour and effort at parent/teacher meetings.
Now fast foward in year 3, he comes home with stories of things that happen in the classroom. Please tell me I'm not the only one who think that these methods are simply not right.
- Children are 'often' told to go and sit in year 5 or another year (my DS had to do this once, because he asked a question that made the class laugh). This happens on a weekly basis, the ones he tells me about;
- Children are asked to stand and face the wall (in one particular case, I know one of the children has special needs);
- The class is made to wait, or do the same action over and over again, until all the children do it silently (ie, walking from the classroom to PE. They did it four times, on one occasion, because a couple of boys kept on talking)
- All the pupils will be punished because of a few children misbehaving (keeping them all in at playtime, for example).
Am I dreaming or it this just not right? I have a parent consultation meeting today with the teacher and I would like to tell her that I don't agree with her methods.