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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with OP and PP--I don't see how suspending a preschooler is at all appropriate or helpful. [/quote]

It's not appropriate, and it's not helpful.  It's what schools/teachers/principals who are short on appropriate resources, short on creativity, and short on patience (usually understandably so) do.  It just sends the child right back to where they most likely learned the behaviors that got them suspended, and most schools doing this to such young children also don't have the resources or make the effort to really talk to the parents.

But it's unacceptable.  Elementary schools should be able to handle these kids, even the out of control ones, in the school.  But that does take more staffing in terms of social workers and discipline people, plus a room (or multiple rooms) in the school to use for this.  But suspension is not the answer and sets the kids up for a school career of suspension and eventually academic failure and dropping out.  Even if these young kids are bad as hell they are almost always just doing what they've learned elsewhere and too young to "choose better" without structured interventions.  In other words, it's not their fault, and just "getting them out of the school" is not the answer.[/quote]

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