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A 6 year old gets expelled for hitting another child..really? My 3 year old grandson bit his brother today REALLY HARD...ALL KIDS DO CRAP LIKE THAT. Aren’t professionals supposed to know how to deal with it? We are going to have a generation of neurotic men...who are being punished for every boyish thing they ever do or even think of doing. WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Although I am not a fan of Jon OR Kate, I do totally agree with you Hildy! Kids have to learn and how else do they learn but by doing and suffering the consequences?

I could see sending Kate’s son to the principal’s office at the very worst, but expelling him? Come on! That’s crazy. I feel sorry for boys these days - they aren’t really allowed to be boys. I’m not saying I like children that can’t behave but they all have to learn - let kids be kids.

They didn't say WHY the six year olds got expelled. It was mentioned that another was suspended for hitting others. In a private school this is not acceptable and they don't suspend you the first time around. You have to do allot to be expelled or even suspended in kindergarten! Typically kids learn civilized behavior at home and in preschool if they are enrolled. This proves how terrible the "parenting" is there.

"We" aren't doing anything wrong. It's societies view that kids are resilient and bounce back from divorce like it's no big deal. It is a big deal to them. Plus you have narcissistic, adolescents posing as adults and worse yet, parents - making a mess of these kids. The problem is some people want to believe that NOT being around and raising your kids works! It doesn't.

I think the whole story is that there was a suspension first, due to violence and bullying from the two Gosselins in question. When the two came back and were unable to control their behavior, the school was forced to remove them.

So, not just a little play ground upset but some extreme violent behaviors towards other children.

Come to think of it there was one kid that hit the jackpot! SHE skipped the warnings, verbal and written. SHE was instantly suspended for three days. This happened in kindergarten.

SHE was mad because two boys she was playing with knocked down the blocks of her house. They purposely destroyed her silly house. This happens and she was mad. So she waited for lunch time and in front of everyone in the lunch line, ahem, grabbed and yanked their "hotdogs". The proctors saw it and so did the other kids. It wasn't a sexual move. It was just meant to embarrass them and "get even".

I wouldn't know what possessed her to do that to "get even". Still you can't have kids doing that. This particular girl had issues with talking in class but nothing really major - a few warnings and no demerits till she did that.

At the end of the school year they moved and the school expunged the suspension off her record. After the suspension, during the school year, from what I know, she was a good kid and behaved herself. Even though this was a girl, I had no problem with a suspension. If it were a BOY, grabbing two girls in the crotch in front of everyone to "get even" I would also expect that BOY to be suspended too.

A 6 year old gets expelled for hitting another child..really? My 3 year old grandson bit his brother today REALLY HARD...ALL KIDS DO CRAP LIKE THAT.

The principal owes not just these children, but every other child in that school a calm environment in which to learn. It's not his/her job to cure "rage issues" (mentioned in the article) in children. I also noticed in the article that three of the children have been expelled, two of which are girls. Girls (generally) don't act out as much as boys, especially violently. This really sets alarm bells off for me.

I would bet nearly anything that there is much more to this than one child simply hitting another. I've seen the mother on TV and she's very confrontational, and seems downright uninterested in her kids. If she's like that on TV, I wonder what she's like with her children in private

Aren’t professionals supposed to know how to deal with it? We are going to have a generation of neurotic men...who are being punished for every boyish thing they ever do or even think of doing. WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Just my opinion, but in this case, these children may be a detriment to the other kids at school. I sincerely do not think that it can possibly be in any child's best interest to have their private lives filmed for TV. It can't be good for the child and it can't help with their emotional development. Principals and teachers can only do so much with children who have been emotionally damaged.

If we sent our child to this (private) school, you could bet that we would not tolerate our children having obscenities screamed at them and/or being hit. I doubt the other parents are too happy about it, either.

Just another reason to homeschool, which we do :D