my son was in kindgarden last year and one day on the playground a group of boys were playing dinosaurs and my son said im a t-rex i will bite your head off. playing right useing ones imgination a good thing at that age. well a teacher (not his) over heard this and humilated him in front of the other kids scolded him forced him to apolgize for his threats and then marched him to the principals office where i was called in and my son was threated with suspension at 5 years old when i dissagreed with the princapal he told me that what my son said was the same as telling someone he was going to take a gun and kill him. does anyone else not see the comparsion here all the boys were playing a game of make believe since when is that not allowed in kindergarden?
2006-08-21 13:03:40 · 17 answers · asked by heather d 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
WOW! That IS taking things too far. Society has gotten everyone seriously and frighteningly paranoid. Simple play from innocent children is now take literally, and falls under the "zero tolerance for violence" concept.
Children can't use their fingers as guns and say bang-bang - but we can play laser tag and paint ball, go figure.
Kids have been expelled for having a plastic knife in their lunch box to cut their chicken or spread their peanut butter.
I hope he's not been hurt (emotionally) by the experience. But, I know that I took the long way to say, I agree with you. It's out of control.
2006-08-21 13:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by kids and cats 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
oh geez.....I don't know where they found some of those people, but treating a 5 yr old that way? That is ridiculous!!! He was playing...I think it would have been different if he would have been actually physically threatening someone. At the most he should have been taken aside and told, what you said may have hurt or scared someone, so let's try not to talk like that. Stupid people, they let others get away will tormenting everyone, but a kid who was just playing, they throw the book at!!
2006-08-22 03:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh come on, ur child is as innocent as can be and when he was playing dinasours truly he was playing... It's only bad when people make it look bad and that teacher took that game's innocense and made it look like a crime. Ask her if that was a threat and it was bad well then how come she humilliated ur son infront of everyone ?? that doesnt show a proper way of scolding a child. Tell her she should apologize for taking that game's innocense and humiliating ur child like that. TEll her he doesnt know better and he didnt mean what she said, all that sshiit is in her freakin head that stupid biitch
2006-08-21 13:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by sourgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People really overreact these days!!! I went through a similar situation when my three year old pulled the school's fire alarm. First of all, it did not have a plastic covering on it....it was at his eye level, and it was a bright red button. Of course, he was gonna push the darn thing!! But the principal was angry and teachers kept giving me dirty looks. It's not my fault! We don't have a fire alarm at my house, he didn't know not to do that! Anyways, when the fire dept. came I apologized but i still think everyone overreacted.
Besides, we live in a very small town...it was the excitement of the day!
2006-08-22 03:40:32 · answer #4 · answered by Smiles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of like the little 6-year old boy who pointed a chicken finger at another kid in school and said "bang"....only your son was even more wrongfully scolded.
Zero tolerance policies can be extremely irrational. I hope your son doesn't feel too badly about this.
2006-08-24 10:19:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dellajoy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no not at all a little boy just playing I would write or email the department of education about this. Don't ring a something written holds more of a punch. if that is no good then I would try (if you can take him to another school) not very good I would say. if we let these people get there way all the time then tho whole darn world is going crazy.
2006-08-21 13:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by Mrs Magoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of my sons (6 and 8) love dinos ok. They have the same problem sort of. They love to pretend that they are dinosaurs and running around acting like they are attacking each other and chasing each other. They get in trouble for using their imaginations all the time at school. The schools are getting stupid and taking this stuff way to far anymore. Mine have been threatened with OSS too and we argue with the school constantly over it.
2006-08-21 13:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by harleyt23us 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you should let you 5 yr old be a 5 yr old. At that age they don't even know that death is. I was a pre school teacher and I believe that kids will say things and no even know the meaning of.
2006-08-21 13:44:19 · answer #8 · answered by actdupre 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you are right. It's so hard to teach kids today how to balance healthy imagination and socially appropriate/acceptable behavior. Just keep talking to him about how important it is that he not say things that might scare other people, because we really do live in a world where even innocent comments are often overreacted to.
2006-08-21 13:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Robin R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor kid. Have the administrators forgotten what it's like to be a little kid? Little ones imagine and act out (we all do before it's squelched out). A child is not a miniature adult. I guess this school is enforcing it's "zero tolerance" policy? What a bunch of BS.
2006-08-21 13:15:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋