Reply to Middle school whole class punishments

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Middle school whole class punishments"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's unfortunate. They should be giving consequences to the disruptive kids, but they choose to punish the entire grade/class, instead.

Forced assigned seating at lunch is truly bizarre. Our MS never allows kids to sit with their friends. They're forced to stay with their class.[/quote]

What do you mean "they're forced to stay with their class"?  Our MS doesn't have "classes" at lunch, kids just have lunch periods (i.e., you might have 5th period lunch, or 6th period, or whatever).  There are no assigned seats that I know of.  However, many schools allow kids to eat lunch in the media center or open classrooms rather than the cafeteria.  There are clubs that meet over lunch were kids can bring their food.  Maybe that's an option for kids who want to eat with their friends.

That said, no one should be getting in trouble for "talking" at lunch (if that is indeed what's happening) but if kids are being overly disruptive (throwing stuff etc) maybe it's easier to just assign seats to everyone.  Often there isn't sufficient staff to ensure things don't get out of hand.

Have you addressed this concern with school administration?  What has been the response? It would help if you identified the school in question.  I've heard complaints from our kids about overly-strict cafeteria rules in ES, but not MS.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics