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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you haven't already spoken to your child's teacher you really should.  While it is fairly common for a whole class to miss out on an opportunity because a number of students didn't get in line, what is NOT common and should not happen is that the whole class misses out frequently.  If your student is coming home all year talking about what the class didn't get to do, sometimes it's a legit consequence, but more often it's a teacher who has run out of strategies for trying to control behavior and is just defaulting to "Ok, you didn't get in line, so now the whole class misses this."

If your child is talking about it over and over, it's obviously not working to change the behavior of the students who are causing the disruptions, so my question to the teacher as a parent would be "What is going on?  How many kids are usually causing a ruckus and is it usually the same kids?  What do you do/how do you handle it?  At what point do you try something different with those kids, instead of just keeping the whole class from these activities?"

Not in an angry way, but in a questioning way, because it's a very legitimate concern to be worried about your child and most of the class missing out repeatedly because of a small number of kids' behavior.  Also, I'd ask the Principal the same questions, what is his/her expectations of how a K teacher handles this?  What other options are there than keeping the class from X activity?

These are totally appropriate questions for a concerned parent to ask.  I understand bringing it up on DCUM, but the only way to find out if your particular child's teacher is doing somethign that makes sense or something that is not improving the situation and also having most kids miss out with no benefit is for you to talk to your teacher and the Administration at your school.

Good luck, hope you report back if you do talk to them.   A lot of teachers are overwhelmed and just keep doing the same thing without making any progress.  That only changes when someone starts asking questions or pointing it out and asking what else can be tried.[/quote]

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