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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to get the principal to step in and come up with an intermediary solution while a different placement is being worked on. This is not good for your kid to be constantly not meeting expectations. There are all sorts of solutions. They can send an extra person into the classroom to help manage things, like a student teacher or the school psychologist or assistant principal. They can make your child principal for the day, and have them shadow the principal, to give them a break from the classroom environment, which sounds to be stressful. Or gym teacher for the day. They can pull your child out of the classroom if there is a particular time of day or triggering event that is difficult, perhaps having the school psychologist spend one on one time with them. They can brainstorm and come up with new and better figits, if that’s something that may be useful. These are all things that our public school did when DC was having behavioral problems in elementary school.[/quote]

It depends on what you mean by misbehaves. If your child has a BIP seems like most incidents are disruptive somehow. Can you elaborate? Are you seeking a new placement? 
These are good stop gap measures but first you need to figure out yourself what you think of the current placement and what your goals are here. Your goals cannot be to just stop the emails because obviously there's stuff going on that the teacher feels compelled to write about. Either the teacher needs help, your child needs help or your child needs a new placement.[/quote]

OP here. The reported behaviors are:

-used glue stick as chapstick and put it all over his face
-ate play doh
-went into girls bathroom 
-throwing paper towels on the ground
-scribbling on desk
-drawing on self
-taking another child’s food and/or water bottle 
-drinking the teacher’s coffee
-repeatedly touching the classroom TV
-refusing to sit down at his desk or join circle time 
-tearing his papers instead of turning them in or doing them
-putting hand soap in his water bottle and shaking it in order to create bubbles
-opening and closing the window in the classroom
-wanting to play with blocks instead of doing the classroom work

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OP this doesn't seem too bad at all. I would not seek a change of placement based on these reports. These are all really normal behaviors. It just seems more frequent than many other kids but nothing an experienced teacher shouldn't be able to handle. I would never refer to these behaviors as "bad" or even misbehaving.

DD had a teacher that overreacted in K which made DD feel terrible about herself. It happened really quickly. The school figured out a few years later the teacher was terrible at handling behaviors and gave her additional training and even sent someone in to help her with live training. I wondering if you could request an on outside observer come to the classroom and maybe they could be observing the teacher at the same time.

Your poor child. Sounds like a curious kid who has trouble sitting still. Can you afford a place like Waldorf or a private that has more age appropriate learning in K? Public school Ks are really a lot of sitting and listening which is inappropriate for this age group and very difficult especially for boys.

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