Adams said the district handled the situation properly.
"I think the situation was resolved," he said.
That's what you think. This litigious society demands a suit be filed for insane amounts of ca$h!
CHILES: "I know what I would do..."
Posted on 11/01/2005 8:23:28 AM PST by Millee
A Charleston County teacher was reprimanded for putting cardboard around a student's desk and keeping him isolated from his classmates for two hours.
"This is just unbelievable," said Caren Weldon, whose 9-year-old son was disciplined. Weldon serves as president of the PTA at the school, Charlestowne Academy. "I don't care what any child does, you don't do that."
Weldon said sections of a cardboard box were put around her son's desk of her son, Robert Willingham II, last Thursday as punishment for talking during class. The boy could see the ceiling, but not the rest of the classroom.
Principal Edward Tichi told the teacher, who was not identified, it was an inappropriate punishment and not to use it again, said Charleston County School District spokesman Jerry Adams.
The reprimand was "pretty good discipline," he said. "We're sorry it happened. The teacher acted inappropriately."
Weldon was waiting for her son outside the class last week when a student came out and said her son "had his own walls," Weldon said.
Inside she found her son's desk against a wall with cardboard on the other three sides. She said she asked the teacher about it and was told the discipline worked for her son.
Weldon complained to district officials and said her son was humiliated by "cruel and abusive treatment."
Adams said the district handled the situation properly.
"I think the situation was resolved," he said.
My thoughts, precisely!
What is the difference between this and sitting in the corner? School Administrators have no spines!
NO doubt, I bet I spent the better part of my life in elementary school staring at a corner.
Should have made the kid where a dunce's cap.
Weldon said sections of a cardboard box were put around her son's desk of her son,
WHAT!!!! And no ARM HOLES cut out!?!
Put him in the hall then.
Adams said the district handled the situation properly.
"I think the situation was resolved," he said.
That's what you think. This litigious society demands a suit be filed for insane amounts of ca$h!
CHILES: "I know what I would do..."
I think I might have stumbled on part of the problem here...
Nice writing AP.
I spent most of my kindergarten days standing in a tight corner behind the upright piano. A cardboard box would have been cool.
I'm on the teacher's side on this one. It's the parent and school administrators who are the idiots here. This is making me feel my age (48). When I was in school paddling by the teachers was allowed and my Dad gave them permission to do so to me.
At least it wasn't the ultimate punishment: cardboard panties.
LOL...every time I see somebody here post a pic of ol' Jackie Chiles, I begin to understand that Star Trek episode where they meet the people that don't communicate with syntax, only with allusion to other people or events.
Oh, good grief! When did parents lose their spines?
Kudos to the teacher for showing creativity and finding an appropriate, effective solution to a behavior problem.
Put him in the hall then.
No. Doesn't work. Same ostracizing principle: Expanisve empty hall, versus the cardboard screen. Instead call the parent to pick him up. Five times doing this, and missing work and paying for daycare, maybe some home discipline will be enhanced. This does work. My wife sees this all the time as a Speech Path.
Uh, yeah me too. My public grade school principal has THE RED PADDLE and they used it too. Kept us in line with just the threat of it.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
I get the sense that playing soldier is a forbidden activity in this kid's house. If the teacher and administration had the presence of mind, they would have told the parent that the child had some apparent insecurities and they were only trying to recreate the warmth and serenity of the womb-experience by sticking him in a box.
I'm sure they could have sold that....
/codger
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