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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would follow early PP’s advice to consult the handbook or officially find out if this was an appropriate punishment according to school rules. Be completely calm and unflappable. Don’t get into your child’s pov. Demand a clear answer. This will give you helpful info and also let the teacher know this child has someone advocating for them who isn’t going to back down.

[b]My sense is that oftentimes teachers literally cannot control the truly troublesome kids and double down on these “example setting” scenarios with more compliant kids[/b]. [/quote]

Op here. This is our school exactly, and not even with just my kid. They send the chair thrower to the office and the kid comes back with kinetic sand. I volunteer there and see yelling and punishing over the dumbest of things. [/quote]

NP here- this is the aspect of your post that is making you sound ridiculous. You believe your kid is “good” and should be treated differently. You’ve written that multiple times- that this isn’t appropriate for your “good” kid. Let me tell you- “good kids” get away with a lot. My oldest has ADHD and is super hyper. It’s under control now and they are a star student but in preschool DC was constantly in trouble for all sorts of things that were mildly disruptive but within the range of normal (primarily related to sitting or staying in one place). Once it was decided DC was a problem they were never again given the benefit of the doubt. I have another typical child who would do the same things and never got in trouble for them. You have no idea what you are talking about.

All that said I do think this punishment is inappropriate for *all* students. I’ve never heard of this happening at any of my kids schools. There are children who are not allowed to sit together at lunch or have assigned seats but they are always with other kids. I honestly don’t know if I’d say something, it’s on the border of something that I think is not ideal but not really that bad. I am confident you are making this all worse with your emphasis on how your kid is so good and not like those other bad kids for whom this is appropriate. [/quote]

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