The Sensory deprivation will help the child get in touch with themselves. /sarcasm
There’s a story in our family about a relative a hundred years ago who was put in what was called then the “cloak room” for punishment. In those days you went to the cloak room for a day. He had to go to the bathroom so he peed into the teacher’s umbrella.
Nobody sued the school system.
Lawyers are having fistfights to be the first to her door.
We had a girl “punished” in the cloak closet and we all went home. Her mom called my mom....and I remembered that’s where she was. 1950’s
This was severe punishment by today’s standards, and therefore possibly traumatic for this little girl, given the ease in standards today.
In other words, few of us grew up when children were treated as the center of the universe at home. Misbehavior at school wasn’t tolerated, paddles were nearby, and double trouble when you got home to mom and dad. We were loved, yes, but our parents had a life too, so we behaved to fit in it. Or else.
Locked? Good grief, think what could have happened if there was a fire.
“You don’t do a child like that. If you’re going to punish a child you tell them to stop and behave or you’re going to write them up and send them to office. You don’t put a child in a closet period,” said Wanda Joseph.
Well perhaps this is why there is no discipline in schools today. And there being no discipline in schools today is why the schools are failing.
Wanda’s grasp of the English language demonstrates that the schools system in this country has been in desperate straits for some time.
Yes wanda, telling a child to stop and behave, that works every time. /S
Good. Grief.
I know using the closet for punishment would not be tolerated these days, but my kindergarten teacher did it all the time. This was back in the forties when teachers had no aides and huge classes. My class was part of an experimental program in which we started kindergarten at four and a half years old.
I don’t remember any of the parents objecting to the teacher’s methods and the kids all loved her. Of course she never left a child in the closet and went home like this idiot teacher.
When I get out of here somebody is going to be sorry!
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