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[quote=Anonymous]Our center's policy on biting, in full:

Biting is a common and natural phase that many children go through as part of their development.  Center staff must immediately respond to all biting incidents in order to maintain a safe and nurturing environment for all children in our care.  For each instance of biting, teachers will calmly remove the child who bit from the situation, verbally reinforce that biting is not ok, and redirect the child to another activity. The teachers will focus on comforting the child who was bitten.  Once all children are calm, teachers will prepare an incident report for both the parents of the bitten child(ren) and the biting child, without identifying the other child(ren) involved.  Teachers will also strive to shadow any child prone to biting to try to identify possible triggers and to help the child deal with such triggers before they prompt biting behavior.

While Center staff will do what they can to minimize biting, additional action will sometimes be necessary for persistent biters or serious bites.  If a child bites another child 3 times without breaking the skin on the bitten child(ren) in any one day, then the child will be sent home for the remainder of the day. If a bitten child’s skin is broken due to a bite, the biting child will be sent home immediately, even if it is the first offense of the day.  The teacher(s) and Center Director will schedule a meeting with the parents of any child sent home for biting to discuss further techniques for addressing the behavior.  If a child’s biting persists after he or she returns to school and after consultations between teachers, Director and parents, and the biting behavior is adding significant and undue stress on the other children in the classroom and the overall classroom environment, then it may prove necessary to terminate the student’s enrollment.  Any such removal will follow the process established in Article IV, Section 4 (Suspension and Removal) of the Center’s By-Laws.[/quote]

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