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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also very relevant: one time incident or ongoing issue? If it happened one time, I'd say "age appropriate" because 5 year olds are still learning and make mistakes and this would be a learning opportunity.

If it's happening daily or one kid is hitting another, specific kid frequently, totally different. First I'd be upset that it was allowed to go on this long (in a preschool classroom, ever single incident of physical violence should be addressed and discussed -- the kids need continual feedback on this specific issue.[/quote]

Occurs about weekly for several months with various kids. The director says it’s not disciplined because it’s developmentally age appropriate. [/quote]

What are the classroom rules around physically violence.

In my child's PK 4/5 year, they started the year out by creating a classroom contract. The kids worked with the teachers to create a list of rules for the classroom and they all signed the contract (it was a big piece of paper that got hung on the wall). One of the rules had to do with not touching friends when they didn't want to be touched (including hitting, which was listed as an example). So in that classroom, if there was an instance of hitting, the teachers would remind the children of the contract and also remind individual children that the contract reflected who each child expected to be treated.

There was of course still random hitting incidents, but because they were always responded to and linked back to a classroom policy designed to help the children learn not to hit each other, I was never concerned about it (none of the incidents resulted in actual injuries, it would just be typical hits or pushes that kids this age do in fact engage in).

But if this was happening regularly in the classroom with no comment from the teachers or no effort to guide and education the children, I'd look for a new preschool. Stuff like this is a manor reason preschool exists. They are not merely child minders.[/quote]

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