chair pulling - appropriate teacher reaction?

[Anonymous]

On a scale of one to 10, how upset would you be:

4th grader has the chair pulled from out under him during class by another classmate and falls hard to the floor. Teacher just says “don’t do that again” to the chair puller and offers your kid to go to the nurse. Child walks to nurse’s room and no one is there. Goes to bathroom to soothe his arm with wet paper towels and returns to class.

No repercussions, no follow up. I’m less upset at the kid who did it and more upset that all the adults didn’t do anything.

[Anonymous]

What did you want the adult to do to the other kid? Are you mad about th nurse not being there or that the kid wasn't caned in front of the class?

[Anonymous]

I would feel the same way that you do. We send our kids to school hoping and expecting that they’re being cared for and that their teachers will intervene in appropriate ways so that kids feel protected. I’d be really disappointed that nobody seemed to show much concern for my kid or meaningful repercussions for kid who pulled chair. I don’t think drastic consequences were necessary, but perhaps stating to the entire class how that is unacceptable and potentially dangerous, and therefore not okay.

[Anonymous]

Na, I'm with OP, chair pulling can lead to some pretty serious injuries and needs to be nipped in the bud not a warning... I'd he pissed it happened in my kid's class and I found out the teacher did nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would feel the same way that you do. We send our kids to school hoping and expecting that they’re being cared for and that their teachers will intervene in appropriate ways so that kids feel protected. I’d be really disappointed that nobody seemed to show much concern for my kid or meaningful repercussions for kid who pulled chair. I don’t think drastic consequences were necessary, but perhaps stating to the entire class how that is unacceptable and potentially dangerous, and therefore not okay.

How does OP know that didn't happen if they were in the nurses office and the bathroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would feel the same way that you do. We send our kids to school hoping and expecting that they’re being cared for and that their teachers will intervene in appropriate ways so that kids feel protected. I’d be really disappointed that nobody seemed to show much concern for my kid or meaningful repercussions for kid who pulled chair. I don’t think drastic consequences were necessary, but perhaps stating to the entire class how that is unacceptable and potentially dangerous, and therefore not okay.

How does OP know that didn't happen if they were in the nurses office and the bathroom?

OP here- child was only out of the class for a few minutes. This is also not the first time it’s happened, just the first time to my child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would feel the same way that you do. We send our kids to school hoping and expecting that they’re being cared for and that their teachers will intervene in appropriate ways so that kids feel protected. I’d be really disappointed that nobody seemed to show much concern for my kid or meaningful repercussions for kid who pulled chair. I don’t think drastic consequences were necessary, but perhaps stating to the entire class how that is unacceptable and potentially dangerous, and therefore not okay.

How does OP know that didn't happen if they were in the nurses office and the bathroom?

Kids typically don't practice silence amongst themselves and this is exactly the sort of thing that is a hot topic on their gossip circuits.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think young, potentially injured children should be sent on their own to the nurse’s office, especially if there’s a chance the nurse isn’t there. If there is no assistant teacher or a floater (adult) who can be called, a buddy student can go with them. And the child should know where to go (admin office, receptionist, etc) if the nurse isn’t in their office.

[Anonymous]

OP- was this the Sheridan school? Seems so like that school- chair pulling, older kids picking up and dropping kids on the playground, with zero teacher/adult intervention and kids running amok.

[Anonymous]

My kid would have hip tossed the other child and then got a free day off.

No just no.

Yes I expect teachers and admins to be totally unable to address it which is why my kids do jujitsu.

And yes my kids has hip tossed (which doesn’t injure but does embarrass) a kids who pushed him while at school.

[Anonymous]

I’d make the student that pulled the chairs stand instead of sit for the rest of the week

[Anonymous]

Did your kid explain his injuries? It sounds like he handled them privately, I don’t blame him for that but the teacher may have thought it wasn’t a big deal if he thought there weren’t really any injuries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d make the student that pulled the chairs stand instead of sit for the rest of the week

I don’t think that’s an appropriate consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did your kid explain his injuries? It sounds like he handled them privately, I don’t blame him for that but the teacher may have thought it wasn’t a big deal if he thought there weren’t really any injuries.

He didn’t, but he’s never cried in class and he did then. The humiliation factor was enough that she should have checked on him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP- was this the Sheridan school? Seems so like that school- chair pulling, older kids picking up and dropping kids on the playground, with zero teacher/adult intervention and kids running amok.

no, it’s an ADW Catholic school