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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, I do have respect for teachers and early childhood educators as I am a preschool teacher myself and have been for the past 10 years. I also volunteer at my sons school and am the room parent for his class. So I do stay connected with my sons teacher, and we do discuss his behavior at home as well. I don't believe in these special snowflakes and every child should get a trophy, or being a helicopter parent. I agree that my child or any other child for that matter should not be able to disrupt the class. What I don't ageee with was the shaming and sending him to a younger classroom. I feel there was no positive lesson learned from being sent to the younger classroom, besides shaming him, and disrupting another class. I would have no problem if he was asked to sit someone else, or even in the office where he could have had positive redirection. I use positive redirection in my classroom and at home. Instead of just saying we don't hit, we say hands are for using good deeds and we give examples so they know what hands ARE used for. [/quote]

I am with you OP, especially if the teacher said he was not ready for K, versus he was acting like he was not.

5 year olds need to learn how to act appropriately, but an adult shaming them is not appropriate.  I would ask to speak to the teacher and irk out a plan for what you can do to help the behavior, and in that same conversation, tell her that you felt the shaming is inappropriate.  If she needs to send him to the office, that is fine.  But she is setting your child up to be teased.  [/quote]

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