This sent to me from one concerned parent:
Parents send me the outrageous stuff your child came home from school with!!!!!
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5 comments:
She sounds like a dictator and not a teacher. I feel for the kids.
If the kids cannot hold their bodily functions for an hour by that age then they might need to be in a different school. She doesn't say that NO Kids can go to the bathroom, just that if the kids do not follow her rules then they will lose that privilage.
No, she is not a dictator. She is following good classroom management ppractice. The schema for her class rules is lifted right out of a best selling work on classroom management by a Dr. Harry Wong.
If you don't grab firm control of the class in the first few minutes of day one and continue to inculcate class rules for the first two or three weeks until they become rote, you are, to use a non-technical term, screwed. The inmates will run the asylum.
I thought it was a state law that a child could NOT be denied whwn they asked to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water!!
As long as she allows the children to go to the bathroom at the scheduled breaks then there should not be a problem. However, if she is punishing a child by not letting the child go to the bathroom at scheduled times then there is a problem. Punishing a child by not allowing them a required health and hygenic necessity may be violation of state law and needs to be looked into.
If the teacher is not allowing the students to leave during class time then it is a class management issue. If the teacher does not nip in the bud going to the bathroom during class then every bored student will leave class and the teacher has constant disruption.
The questions are is her rule class management or punitive? Does she allow students to go during scheduled bathroom breaks whether or not the child has misbehaved in class or is she using the scheduled breaks as punishment.
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