Classroom Discipline
- Thread starter canada-man
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My son was known to skip now and then. I got a letter to attend a meeting with the VP. She told me my son has a duty to attend on a regular basis if he wants to have a successful year and skipping class is not acceptable. Which we agreed to. She then SUSPENDS him for 3 days! I lost it saying the punishment was no different than the crime if he is not in class. I then went to the Principal ( who I knew from Univ.) then my School Trustee who both thought it was absurd. He got am detention instead. The VP made it known she was not happy.
As a "problem child" in high school I can attest to the fact that A). unless you show the bullies getting violently beaten or B). the kids dad getting pistol whipped for being a drunk these videos have no basis in reality.......
See hat is the problem with educators these days - what the Principal and VP should have done was simply sent a letter home and let the parent deal with their child.
Why did they give a shit if your son goes to school or not, it's better for other students if the future guests of the state don't go to school, they get paid the same.
one situation i which i could see suspension for skipping is if the kid is known to skip but hang around the school in the halls etc causing a general nuisance.
but was any effoet done to understand why the kid skips? are they struggling in school? do they not get along with a certain teacher? bullying? drugs?
the other people agreed with you to just get you out of the office.
