Student voted out of classroom!!!

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by wreckingcrew

Ok man, I'm calling bullshit on this. Yes, she gets paid to teach. Part of teaching is classroom management, i.e. making sure your students have an environment in which learning can take place, free from disruptions. That's the whole reason for behavior interventions and policies.

Look, unless you've spent 9 years teaching kindergarten like this teacher, or anytime at all with those aged kids in an educational setting, you really don't have an idea of what it is like.

During college, and for a brief time afterward, I was a preschool teacher, in a class of about 15-20 children. The class included many students who did not speak English as a first language, and a handful who had various developmental delays. It involved a curriculum and many of the classroom management skills one would need for kindergarten.

With that background in mind, I really can't understand why she would have the kid up at the front of the room like that, and "poll" the class in the manner that she did. I have been in situations where you had one child tell the other child how his/her contact made them feel ("You made me feel sad," etc.), but never where you were pitting the entire class against one child.

I can't imagine a situation where you would subject a child that young (even putting aside any other circumstances), to being called out by all of their classmates at once.

Teaching is a stressful job, no doubt, and there can be challenges in dealing with behavior. However, the method with which she dealt with the situation seems extreme.

ETA: I'm sure that all the facts haven't come out yet, so who knows if the truth lies somewhere between the child's story and the teacher's.