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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that the underlying text to your question is: do you think that teachers and school administrators are going to give two shits about bad behaviour?

If they don't, they should. If they don't have time to, something needs to be fixed.

Had I been the person who kept knocking down someone else's water bottles, in my day and age I would have gotten a note written by a teacher in my planner, and I would have had to bring it back signed by a parent the following day. Which meant that one of my parents would have known and would have disciplined me for behaving badly at school. Back then, getting a note by a teacher in your planner was a big deal.

Seriously, it doesn't take that long to tell a child: "I'm going to write a note in your planner saying that you did x, y, z. Hand me your planner now. Bring it back signed by a parent tomorrow. Next time, you'll be sent to the office."

If a teacher doesn't have time to do that, something is wrong with the system.[/quote]

You're cute.  A note from the teacher saying a water bottle got knocked over?!?  My point is that teachers and administrators have much BIGGER problems to deal with than a water bottle.  And if your kid doesn't have the ability to deal with inter-personal conflict without running to mommy at 11, something is wrong with how you're raising them.  I'd argue that this is exactly why you SHOULDN'T homeschool your kids- you want them to learn how to do this at 18?!?

In what Pollyanna world do you live?[/quote]

The note would say that the bottle got knocked over repeatedly on purpose, after the kid was asked respectfully by the bottle owner to stop touching his property.

Would it really not bother you that your children can't leave other children's things alone? Would you not want to know that they lack the basic courtesy to do so? I would. And there would be consequences to that, because I know that's a lesson I'm working to instil. There would be lost privileges, lines to write, possibly grounding if it was a repeat issue.

And by the way, I despise Pollyanna.[/quote]

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