Punishment of a third grader should be done in private.
Disagree. We have gotten away from the concept of puiblic shaming at our peril.
And how do you know that this teacher had not had endless private chats with this student over this topic?
Absolutely. There is NO place for sarcasm, belittlement or public criticism for achievement by a teacher in a third grade classroom.
It is BULLYING done by an authority figure...and it is very Alinskyesque. It is exactly how NOT to handle matters of a child's performance. The matter is to be handled PROFESSIONALLY with the child and parents, NOT in a sleezy, ha-ha, pit child against child manner.
Sarcasm or humiliation by a teacher to a child that age is evil and undermining...and is something not fully understood by a small child.
My daughter had a third grade teacher who was this way. She was the exception to all the other teachers at her grade school. Very sarcastic and flippant and public "labeling" of the kids. They were all a basket of nerves, worried when they'd become the next to be on her receiving end.
That year I made it my business to be room mother...and not necessarily to protect or defend my own child. That classroom needed another adult there whenever allowed, to be a stop-gap of her poor treatment of children who were ALL victims of sarcasm and ridicule that she freely flung. I cannot TELL you how happy the whole *class* was to see me on the days that I was in the classroom helping out. It was pitiful. And it wasn't because of me...it was because I was ANY other adult present to keep that teacher from hurling little digs at them. Shame on her. Shame on this Tucson teacher.
This sort of immature and mean teacher behavior point to their lack of proper teaching techniques, and their understanding of fosterment, nourishment, and flourishment of a small child's mind and spirit.
This sort of teacher has NO business teaching GRADE SCHOOL. It's like seeing a parent publicly ridicule and belittle a small child in a public setting. The sight of it simultaniously makes you sick, and keenly aware of how kids can later in life go bad or possess little or no confidence.