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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: ABNARTY
They're talking about 1st graders through 5th graders. Little kids still have melt downs, sit on floor and cry instead of putting away the toys. I'm sure they can still be suspended for kicking a teacher in the shins or destroying school property.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: ABNARTY
They're talking about 1st graders through 5th graders. Little kids still have melt downs, sit on floor and cry instead of putting away the toys. I'm sure they can still be suspended for kicking a teacher in the shins or destroying school property.
originally posted by: Trueman
a reply to: muzzleflash
Well, I don't believe they can win.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: muzzleflash
This is the argument made at the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Empire.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Are you assuming that every time a kid is suspended for "disobedience", it's because he simply looked cross-eyed at the teacher while black?
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: Boadicea
I'd never suspend a kid, I almost never even discipline them. It's unnecessary for the most part.
It does require me to have a brain and positive Spirit - but I've never met a kid I can't immediately reach - and convince them to behave. I just know how to talk to them.
It's complex tho so of course I don't expect California grade school teachers to be capable of this basic instinct.
They'd need a brain to know how to handle kids. That's asking too much.
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: Boadicea
I'd never suspend a kid, I almost never even discipline them. It's unnecessary for the most part.
It does require me to have a brain and positive Spirit - but I've never met a kid I can't immediately reach - and convince them to behave. I just know how to talk to them.
It's complex tho so of course I don't expect California grade school teachers to be capable of this basic instinct.
They'd need a brain to know how to handle kids. That's asking too much.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Are you assuming that every time a kid is suspended for "disobedience", it's because he simply looked cross-eyed at the teacher while black?
Why do you keep making this about race? Disobedience alone isn't reason enough, in my opinion, to suspend a 1st through 5th grader.
The law in question makes it about race.
So I guess no one gets anything done, right?
And the only thing you can think of is leaving them in the general ed classroom?
Remember, the little darlings are old enough to know their gender identity, but they are now absolutely innocent of malicious wrong-doing and being willfully defiant in their disobedience?
You do know that a child who has no respect for his teacher generally can also show nothing but contempt for disciplinary measures like the ones you propose, right?