At our school that would be an immediate referral and a 3 day suspension and the first thing the office would do would be to call the parents if the act was to an innocent student. Since it was two students messing around your consequences are appropriate, however, the parents should be called after any incident like this. The parents will meet out their own consequences at home or not. Perhaps the boys could call home to tell their parents why they were staying after school. Even if it was just 'boys being boys' the lesson needs to be learned that their actions are never okay at school. Just do the mental list of 'what ifs'.
---- TLP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you could possibly stand one more question about the "flipping me > off" issue. I am having the student "Tom" , along with another kid, > "Charlie", who pulled a chair out from under a classmate, (His buddy > "Sally" who was not hurt and thought it was funny), stay after school > Tuesday for window cleaning, book sorting and a talk. Now my other > dilemma. I am asking you this question as a parent. Would you want to > know your child had done this? I would absolutely want to know. I have > a great relationship with his parents and I think they may want to be > informed as well, yet now I think too much time may have transpired. > Its been a little over a week. > I have been busier than ever and I let this go, quite frankly > because I am at a loss and I am close to being overwhelmed. -- > Tena > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
