Student voted out of classroom!!!

Originally Posted by nate2512

She gets paid to teach, and thats what she should have been doing. If you teach kindergarten, you should have a little bit more patience, the only thing she cited was pushing a table up with his feet, which just sounds like a kid with a little too much energy. Let the kids take a break go out to the playground and release some energy if you have to. But the way she handled is just baffling and uncalled for.

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. I spent 3 years of my Education preparation dealing with these aged kids in a PE setting, and in that setting it was hard enough to keep them focused and on task. This isn't daycare or babysitting, kindergarten teachers have objectives and information that they are responsible for teaching those kids. If one kid is CONSTANTLY and REPEATEDLY disturbing your classroom environment, he needs to be removed.

Did the teacher handle this situation in the best manner? No, but I honestly feel that her administration did not do her any favors.

As far as "taking them out to recess". Yeah, that'll be real effective. It'll take the kids maybe 2 or 3 weeks into the school year to learn that they can get free time by misbehaving. Once you go down that road, you've lost them.

Kitso
KS 361