[workerbee]

My thoughts exactly. Too often any type of wrongdoing by one child becomes a general punishment for everyone; i.e., Little Joey left his lunch trash all over the table and floor, so the whole class is prevented from having recess while they discuss "appropriate lunchroom behavior." I haven't personally dealt with any bullying situations, thank God, but I know parents who have, and from what I've heard the school will always take the path of least resistance (usually the well-behaved child with decent parents who don't want to "make waves" pay the price). I feel forwarned.

[Grampa Dave]

“My thoughts exactly. Too often any type of wrongdoing by one child becomes a general punishment for everyone; i.e., Little Joey left his lunch trash all over the table and floor, so the whole class is prevented from having recess while they discuss “appropriate lunchroom behavior.” I haven’t personally dealt with any bullying situations, thank God, but I know parents who have, and from what I’ve heard the school will always take the path of least resistance (usually the well-behaved child with decent parents who don’t want to “make waves” pay the price). I feel forwarned.”

Yes, unfortunately, you have been for warned.

[Ezekiel]

Too often any type of wrongdoing by one child becomes a general punishment for everyone; i.e., Little Joey left his lunch trash all over the table and floor, so the whole class is prevented from having recess while they discuss "appropriate lunchroom behavior."

Encourages those who were punished for doing nothing wrong to pay "Little Joey" back for the school's bullying. Nice little game these schools have going... they create dysfunctional environments filled with "problem" students who require increasingly freakish and capricious punishments.

And people wonder why many fed-up parents choose to home school instead of wasting their energies battling a system run by and for bullies. It's a system and culture of abuse that won't shrivel up and die no matter how sick and twisted, because it is funded into perpetuity though force of law, not normal market forces.

Going to take a big zot from above to break open these prisons and set the captives free.