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[quote=Anonymous]OP, in my school ine Prince George's County, they kids have a blue-green-yellow-red card system.   They start on blue  each day and need to move their card down to green, yellow, red for each serious infraction of the rules.  So your daughter would have been told "Mary, you need to get up right now and move to the station or I will need to move your card."

Getting to red would be pretty serious, and means loss of privileges, but kids are sent to the off for very serious offenses such as kitting or being out of control.

I cannot imagine sending a kindergartener to the principal's office for refusing to move to the next center.   Doesn't that remind anyone of the Ramona the Pest story?  The poor kid was told to "Sit here for the present" and she thought it meant sit here and I'll give you a present" so she stayed stuck to her chair ALL MORNING LONG!   Even when her teacher told her to get up and do stuff, she just sat... and her teacher finally asked her what was wrong.... and it all got figured out.   First month of kindergarten, it seems like there were some other strategies the teacher could have tried![/quote]

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