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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering whether there aren't just one or two parents (probably MCPS employees) responding back to the OP. There is no excuse for a principal, teacher, or staff member to yell at a Kindergarten or 1st grade child. Its questionable whether sending a young child to the principal's office the first month is even appropriate. If it is done as punishment, i.e. the principal's office is set up as a punitive negative place to go then this is very wrong. I also think its cruel to make a young child eat her lunch in the hallway alone.

If any of this happened to your child, I'm sure you would be furious. I would be furious, escalating a formal complaint through the school board, and considering other options if our ES handled things this way.

OP _ I would suggest that you clearly document what the principal told you and file a formal complaint concerning the yelling and being forced to eat in the hall alone. I would also include very specific points of how the teacher and principal is not only being dismissive of your child being bullied and excluded by other kids.  [/quote]

Not an MCPS employee.  If a principal really was banging the table and yelling at a 5 year old to scare her into compliance and then putting her in lunchtime solitary as a shaming measure, then yes, I would agree that was really inappropriate.  Problem is it is impossible to believe OP about any of her interactions with the school at this point.  Look at her complete misinterpretation of the initial comments she got on this post (I was not one of those posters, I was the one who suggested going Montessori or progressive if she really did not think her daughter should have been made to leave the task she was engaged in).  OP received honest responses from people and somehow managed to turn it into a sideshow about how awful people were to her on these boards, how idiotic everyone is for making assumptions about the incident, and then pulled the childish "I'm leaving" bit and of course kept following the thread and couldn't refrain from posting some more.  I find it very hard to trust that OP would be an accurate historian of anything as her interpretation of what happened in this thread (and the lovely aggressive you people all suck move with the subsequent Boot Camp thread) provides some pretty compelling evidence that OP is going to create mountains out of molehills if there is drama to be had.

I'm sure OPs intentions regarding her child are good.  It the rare parent who isn't trying to do right by their kid.  But reading the now 3 threads OP has posted about this, I'm way more concerned about what this child is getting from OP's reaction to all this than I am about her being sent to the principal for disruptive behavior. If this has OP this worked up, there is no way this isn't stressing the kid out.  A school change might be a good thing if your educational philosophy is in opposition to a traditional model OP, but the way you frame this on the other thread you're essentially putting this school in time out from your child for a year with plans to possibly send her back for 1st, at which point nothing will have changed.  That makes zero sense to me.  If this principal is really as out of line as you say she admitted to being, then why would you withdraw your child and then send her back?  I can see withdrawing permanently or trying to get some changes made at the school via this poster's suggestion, but your reaction here sounds like the "take my ball and go home" mentioned before only now DD is the ball.  [/quote]

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