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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, my 5-year old just got kicked out of summer camp.  I'm a little taken aback because of the lack of warning.  Last week, at drop-off, the teacher rather casually mentioned that they were having some trouble with some aggressive behavior and not listening.  I said we'd help any way we could, and the teacher said she was implementing a positive discipline system that seemed to be working.  This week I got a call from the nurse that he was sent to the office because he was not listening when told to stop doing something to another child.  I don't think there was another incident today, but the camp director called and rather abruptly told me that he out.  I'm not saying they necessarily made the wrong decision, but I'm a little taken aback that this is the first time I've ever even spoken to the director, and now one had ever suggested that the problem was at the expulsion level.  Just wondering if others think this is a bit odd.  He went to the same camp last year and really enjoyed it.  Clearly he's not going back there in the future, but I'm also wondering if I should steer my other children away from this camp in the future.  It's a pretty well known, and not particularly cheap, camp.  
I'm also wondering what others in this situation do, moving forward.  [/quote]

I'm sorry this happened to you, OP, but part of the reason that you were blind-sided by this was that you did not follow up enough on the two previous incidents.  As a suggestion, if you have a young child in camp or school and you are told by a teacher that "they were having some trouble with aggressive behavior and not listening" then you should spoken to the teacher or the camp director about what happened, what led to the incident (if they know), and what the camp policies on this are.  Then you should have worked with your child at home to directly address the aggressive behavior and not listening.  Camps and schools often have policies about no violence, hitting, biting, etc and many have policies that have to be in effect.  You should have found out what the camp policy was, and what you needed to work on.  For the second incident, he was not listening when told not to "do something to another child," so essentially he had a second incident of inappropriate behavior.  And you still didn't talk to the camp director or find out the policy.  You don't even know what happened today when you were called.  Did you ask the director if there had been another incident?  There probably was.  If so, that makes it three strikes, not one.  And you didn't try to make yourself informed about the potential consequences, so you basically ignored the warning signs. When your child was the aggressor, both the first and second time, it wasn't the camp director's responsibility to call you up, it was your responsibility to follow up on the information that you were given and to ensure that your child's behavior issues were addressed.  You didn't.  From the camp's perspective, you had two prior incidents, did no follow-up on your own about the incident and apparently didn't address the behavioral problems with your son so when whatever happened today occurred, it was the third strike and your child was out.

Moving forward, I hope you learn to be more proactive when you get any minimal report like you got to call the director/administrator and follow up on what happened, what was done for your child, what you need to address and what future consequences may be if your child's behavior doesn't change.  Good luck.  I hope you find a place that your child can enjoy.[/quote]

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