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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not doing your daughter/son any favors by reacting to this situation in this way!

Being sent to the principal at his/her age for what happened is not that big a deal. I understand why you are mortified and concerned but it is not as big a deal as you are making it.

In my DD's classroom (K classroom in MCPS school) there is a thinking chair. Several of the children in her class have been sent there this year (she is too scared of her teacher to get sent there, even though she can be a holy terror at home). One little boy actually did something very similar to your child: went to the center they wanted, it was full, and then didn't want to do the other center choice. He became upset and refused to choose and then was sent to the principal's office. But no one has vilified him. He is five! He is just learning and some children need to really assert themselves and bump up against that authority before they tow the line.

So, this is what happened to your DD and it doesn't make her a bad kid or you a bad parent. She is just learning and it's taking her some time. She has to learn to do as she's told in this situation even if she finds it frustrating (and it's okay to validate that emotion in my opinion) because otherwise the classroom just dissolves into an exercise in discipline, and think of all the things we expect these teachers to teach these little guys! They can't teach her to read and write if she won't sit down and work quietly when told.

But you do have to calm down because I think you are blowing this all out of proportion! It isn't as if they told her never to bring your horrible child back because you failed as a parent, but you are kind of acting like that is what happened.[/quote]

I totally agree.[/quote]

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