Child told to walk last in line for final quarter

[Anonymous]

Is it appropriate for an educator to tell an elementary school child to walk at the end of the line for the final quarter of school because they are sick of telling them to stop talking in line?

[Anonymous]

Sure. Someone has to walk last. Though, why aren’t the children allowed to talk?

[Anonymous]

Why would that be inappropriate? Maybe talk to your child about their behavior in line.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Good life lesson, if you can’t follow directions and are being disruptive, people will get sick of your bullshyt.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely. They can't follow the rules they suffer the consequences. Maybe they'll listen to the rules next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Someone has to walk last. Though, why aren’t the children allowed to talk?

Normally kids are not supposed to talk in line because there are kids in class who would be distracted by kids walking by the class talking and because the hallway would get to be really loud if you had a group of 15 to 30 kids talking as they were walking.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Why wouldn’t it be, OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Someone has to walk last. Though, why aren’t the children allowed to talk?

Because noise in the hallways is disruptive to the learning in the classrooms along the halls, and interferes with efficient movement, which means the kids lose out on specials, recess, time to eat lunch, etc . . .

— not OP

[Anonymous]

What have you done at home to reinforce this rule? If the answer is “nothing” you really can’t complain about the solution offered by the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Heh. That child got on that teacher's last nerve. Coming from the viewpoint of a chronic lifelong talker, elementary school sucks. Let her know you understand but she needs to stop talking in the halls. It's disruptive to the other classrooms. Find her some extracurricular activities that allow her to use her voice.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Had taken that approach, but it seems like a rather severe immutable punishment for...talking in the hallways. If a child punches someone, which most would agree is a far more serious behavioral matter, are they given 3 months of daily punishment?

DD says they feel some kids are now treating them differently due to this.

[Anonymous]

The "caboose" was a favorite class job for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Had taken that approach, but it seems like a rather severe immutable punishment for...talking in the hallways. If a child punches someone, which most would agree is a far more serious behavioral matter, are they given 3 months of daily punishment?

DD says they feel some kids are now treating them differently due to this.

It's not 3 months. The school year is over in 6 weeks. It's also not that bad of a punishment. The appropriate punishment for talking is to separate her from the people she's talking with. The teacher did that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Had taken that approach, but it seems like a rather severe immutable punishment for...talking in the hallways. If a child punches someone, which most would agree is a far more serious behavioral matter, are they given 3 months of daily punishment?

DD says they feel some kids are now treating them differently due to this.

Well, nothing is permanent. Tell DD to ask her teacher nicely to commute her sentence for good behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it appropriate for an educator to tell an elementary school child to walk at the end of the line for the final quarter of school because they are sick of telling them to stop talking in line?

I do not like that the teacher went out of her way to embarrass a child with a punishment that she deemed humiliating