Hi Charles!
CB> DT>Charles, I have worked in early childhood classrooms for nearly 8
CB> years.
CB> Rookie!!  I'm about to start year number 28.  ;-)
Wow!!!
Perhaps you can answer a question from a parent that has been coaching 
gymnastics to children for 15 years.
I am spokesperson for a group of parents in Hamilton New Zealand, that 
complained about discipline practices at our local primary school 5-7 year 
olds involved.
They locked kids in an office unsupervised, dragged kids by the wrist and put
them into a cardboard timeout box and made them change in front of others at 
swimming if they weren't fast enough to change. Others as punishment were 
made to drink out of handbasins in the toilets (i don't know what that was 
supposed to achieve).
2 out of 5 comaplaints were from ADHD children (attention deficiet 
hyperactive disability).
These children were made out to be violent, they were just trying to stop the
teacher dragging them or hurting their wrists.
All children involved have been removed from the school in question and sent 
to other schools. All children have had no problems at these other schools.
In your opinion, how do you think 5 - 7 year children should be disciplined?
My son is 5 years old and up until the 2nd term enjoyed school. He then 
became violent to his 3 yearold brother and I was called to his school 
because he hit and scratched the teacher. Each instance he was being 
'removed' from the class forcibly. He said he was being hurt and was trying 
to get away. He has also come home with carpet burns on his knees after being 
dragged accross the carpet and put into a box 'timeout'.
At the end of the term he was not returned to that school and was kept home 
for three weeks. In that 3 weeks we noticed a marked improvement in his 
behaviour, he stopped hitting his younger brother also. 
I couldn't  believe a teacher would do this.
We had another child locked in a room and was found there by his mother 
sobbing under a table. This kid now is scared of his bedroom door being 
closed, won't go to the toilet without his mother at the door.
regards
Shane 
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