chair pulling - appropriate teacher reaction?

[Anonymous]

I'd be pissed but I'd keep it to myself. I don't think school is the appropriate place to pull pranks. School is for learning. I have a class clown kid and I hate the silliness that's tolerated at his school. I'd love for them to take away recess and make him mow the lawn instead of play time but I'm old school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Schools usually do not share with parents the consequences meted out to offenders, OP. So unless you know for a fact, because the teacher told you, that the chair puller was not reprimanded in any way... you don't know how he was punished behind closed doors.

Reprimanding is not just for the wrongdoer, it's so the whole class knows this isn't tolerated. If there's no reprimand then the school is signaling the behavior is fine.

I disagree. You don’t reprimand the group because of the actions of one. I had a boss who did that— yelled at all of us of every time one person slipped up. I quit, as did so many others.

OP, you won’t be told if there were consequences. Teachers aren’t going to share another student’s personal information. And that’s the way it should be.

[Anonymous]

If its happened before I would bring it to the attention of the Vice Principal or whoever handles discipline/behavior at your school. Its not acceptable. I have a kid at a Christian school too OP. We had a kid in 4th grade hurt 2 other kids intentionally, similar to chair pulling although not exactly the same. I know he had at least one day in school suspension ( had to work in the office for a day) and the parents were notified. Hes been ok since then, theyre in 7th grade now and hes doing ok. Not sure what was going on with him to behave the way he did, but it stopped

[Anonymous]

How do you know the teacher didn’t do anything else? They could’ve written. Referral, they couldve emailed the chair pullers parents. How do you know?