Yesterday my DSD (7) said "well, if you and Daddy are going to be my teachers, who is going to be the Detention Teacher?" I laughed and told her that there weren't any detentions in Homeschool. She seemed very relieved! LOL!
LOL! That is adorable! I bet she breathed a huge sigh of relief! I tell my kids that daddy is the principal. If they act up or don't do what they're supposed to, and they aren't listening to me, we're going to talk to the principal when he gets home!
What is sad is that at 7 she knew what detention was :shock: We do have "detention" here, it's called "Go to your room" :lol:
My 6yo asked me "if you're the teacher, is daddy the principal?" I told her yes, LOL. She never got in trouble at school so she doesn't even really understand the concept of "going to the principal's office"!
That's really cute! And, yes, sad that she knew what detention was. Yeah, we have detention, too. It's call "time-out." So I guess I'm the detention teacher along with all of the other hats I'm wearing.
It's one of the reasons we pulled her out. She got in trouble a lot at school because when she didn't understand the material she'd goof off and get sent to detention. FIRST GRADE! Instead of helping to see where she got lost the teacher would just punish. Of course she shouldn't be talking when she's not supposed to. But the detentions made her miss MORE of the class which put her further behind. It was a bad cycle, and numerous talks with the teacher about her missing more of the class didn't help. I think she'll do great with no other kids to goof off with and me to keep her on track and help her find where she's lost. She always did great with her homework with us there to help. But if it comes down to it, I think there might be a few "go to your room!" times!
Last night I was talking to some moms at church. I asked how the kids were liking school since it was their first year in school. One mom who is a teacher at her daughter's school said she saw her little girl walking to the lunch room and how cute they were. All the kids had their hands behind their backs. She said it was to teach them not to touch each other. In the lunch room she went over to her daughter to say hello, but the little girl wouldn't speak to her at all. The mom told the teacher of that class that her daughter wouldn't speak to her. The teacher said, "yes I told them we couldn't talk at lunch because we are on the red card." The mother was so pleased because her daughter was following the rules. Am I just getting old or does anyone else think that is sad? Beth
OMGosh, that is horrible! Bless her heart! Schools just have these bad endless cycles! They don't even realize or don't care what they're doing. They should have helped her. My son got in trouble a lot in Kind. for goofing off and talking when he was supposed to be listening. I don't say that he shouldn't have gotten into trouble...yes he should have been listening. But I don't think he was ready for all of that sit down work they were doing at 5! I mean, for kindergarten they were pretty intense! That's just one of the reasons we pulled him. At the Christmas party the teacher pulled me to the side and said that she was worried about him. She said that 1st grade did A WHOLE LOT MORE work than kindergarten did and she was afraid that since he wouldn't pay attention very long (duh, he was a 5yo boy!!!) that he would get behind and not do very well. On top of everything else we were going through those were the magic words that got us looking at homeschooling. I think your daughter will do awesome with homeschool! She'll be able to go at her pace and the wonderful thing is that if she doesn't get something...you are able to take all the time you need until she does get it! Best of luck! Have you started yet??
I remember talking to friends at lunch. That was one of the times you could really talk. We were even allowed to talk to friends in other classes as long as we didn't get too loud. I loved that. Now silent lunch seems to be the norm. I told my girls we should try silent lunch today and they just laughed. My 10 year old said she remembers in K that she forgot and talked when they weren't supposed to and it scared her to death. She talks so much now about kids who were constantly threatening to tell the teacher for any little thing they could think of. I think it really bothered Emily but she never told us until now. Kids can be mean and some of the teacher's rules just gave them more to tattle about.
My son had 'sticks'. They had a little envelope with three sticks in it. Each time the teacher had to warn you, you got a stick pulled when all 3 were pulled, you got a note home to the parents...if you didn't pull any, you got a treat... needless to say, he only got the treat a couple of times. He was so honest though, I'd ask how many sticks he got pulled today and he'd tell me. I should really make another post about our kinder. experience and the road that led us to homeschooling...It's quite long and intensive!
I hate when they say the kid cant have a treat when they dont behave the way they want them to. When my OS (now graduated) was little I got mad one day and flipped out on the school. He has ADHD so of course he was not a perfect child so he was always missing out on a treat, or a field trip, or whatever. I asked them if they were trying to be Pavlov and were training the children like you train a dog or something. Good boy, heres a treat for you.... I just dont agree with that policy at all. That policy is wrong on so many levels. Its really sad, in first grade no child should even know what detention is. Not talking during lunch? When are the kids supposed to get this "socilization" that the PS claims is so important?
Ugh I remember silent lunch. It was used for kids who'd acted up in class. Never the whole class. You'd have to sit at a table with other silent lunch kids and just eat your lunch away from your friends. I only had to go through it twice, and most days, nobody had silent lunch. Course, back then, silent lunch was definitely better than paddling in the principal's office, especially if your parents were like mine and reinforced the discipline when you got home! That only happened once. Worst trouble I'd get in after that was talking, and even then I'd stop immediately if I got a warning lol.
Wow, I have forgotten all about detentions. I have had my share. Hmmm...maybe I will set a aside a corner and put a detention sign there...LOL.
I understand having to keep order, but it's much better to do it by reason or make a game. In gymnastics we play the "tiptoe" game and we tiptoe quietly from the balance beam to the bars. The kids are having so much fun playing the game of being quiet that I never have to give discipline. I think if teachers were more creative they'd have to discipline less. Kids naturally want to learn and behave when they're having fun. And as an adult, I HATE sitting still in meetings and have a tendency to "misbehave" when the company president is droning on and on about the third quarter numbers. Homeschool is great because we can make it fun and interesting!
I remember getting detention only once in high school. It was for chewing gum in drama class. A lot of the other teachers allowed gum chewing but she was strict so we didn't even get warnings...just detention. But I had to help build a stage for an upcoming play so wasn't that bad.
