>>I finally get to disagree with you<<
Were you looking to?? LOL!
>>You can't assume that these kids are getting an afternoon recess. At the school my kids attend, they get one 15 minute recess per day (only one grade has it after lunch, the class recesses are all staggered because the playground is too small for more than a couple of classes at a time). Recess is 15 minutes and lunch is 20 minutes. For the rest of the day, the kids must be quiet, stand in line, sit in their seats, do their work<<
I stand corrected. If there is no where else for these kids to socialize, there should not be assigned seats. Yet, we are in agreement on how the child and parent should have handled it. So there ;-).
What they should do is change the way schools are completely --- allow students to go for several hours in the morning or in the afternoon --- take their classe --- that would take them maybe 3 or 4 hours each day and then go home --- skip all the socializing --- sometimes that socializing ends up very brutal to the picked on kids --- kids who get bullied or teased --- maybe this is the reason this school went to assigned seating. I'm for it actually because in the schools here the social hour is so important, the kids get their whole schedule rearranged to accomodate having a party with their friends. Drop the physics class at 11:00 if that's when your friends are scheduled for lunch.