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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is exhausting.

Yes, the room that the PP is talking about is the in school suspension room. It's everyone's goal to have fewer ISSes. I'm sure it was the previous principal's goal too. She did not accomplish that goal. She also did not accomplish the goal of improving test scores. When the new principal came in, her goals (whether imposed by DCPS or by her own priorities) have been to improve behavior overall (including ISSes) and test scores. She put some things in place to do those things - instituting a discipline system (PBIS) and improving/implementing more extensive planning for teachers. We can't compare this year's scores to last year's scores because of the change in testing system, which I think is a shame.

I don't know exactly how the "reset" room works or what the system for ending up there is for the whole school. I believe that one child in my daughter's PK4 class spent some time in there because he was violent in class and didn't respond to other interventions. I can tell you that sending a child to that room is not the first line of disciplinary measures.

In my child's classroom, the system was:

1. verbal warning
2. second verbal warning
3. taking a break in the classroom (in a chair to the side of the room, away from the centers/activities
4. taking a break in a buddy classroom 
5. reset room

What I can tell you is that the behavioral issues that the PP is citing are more applicable to kids in upper grades. It's not like there are regularly 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in that room such that they are in danger from older children in there. [/quote]

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