KittyKitten
Nerdysillysweetspicysaucy
Zero tolerance--5 yo expelled for making gun with hand and pointing at ground
YAKIMA, Wash.- Manuel Alvarez eats breakfast and gets ready for school. He's eager but nervous. He was expelled Monday from Barge Lincoln Elementary for making a gun with his hands. His mom says it's a hand gesture that could have easily been corrected.
...
"I got a call from the School saying he's not raising his hand or speaking up. He's scared after we talked about not doing any gestures, he probably doesn't want to to do it because that could be a gesture. It might get him pulled out for two days," said Hurtado.
Manuel's mom doesn't see anything wrong with her son putting his hands like this and shooting down at the ground. She doesn't think it poses an immediate threat to the school or Manuel's classmates. We took the issue to School District employees and asked them about their policy.
"When students are at school they should be concerned about learning….safety shouldn't be a concern at school, we have a zero tolerance policy," said Dr. John Irion, from the Yakima School District.
Source: http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11979866
Manuel's mom is trying to clear his name--she still thinks he's a good kid. How cliche.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
In education courses, you have a course called human growth and development where they teach you about Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg. Those were the great theorists of education.
They teach you what a person knows at each stage of his life from newborn to old age.
Have these inept educators forgotten that in this story?
Piaget says that a five year old does not have critical thinking skills--the pre-operational stage of life.
Great, now you expel this kid, wow, what have you accomplished?
These zero tolerance policies are so very stupid, why not do it the old fashioned way--take the child by the side, and tell him WHY the behavior is wrong? This kind of inept thinking is the reason why America's prisons are so overcrowded when it shouldn't be that way! What kind of stupidity is going on in this once great nation?
What are they doing to children? Childhood cannot be innocent anymore where we make mistakes and learn from it.
God why?
Proof just because you have a Dr. before your name doesn't make you intelligent.
YAKIMA, Wash.- Manuel Alvarez eats breakfast and gets ready for school. He's eager but nervous. He was expelled Monday from Barge Lincoln Elementary for making a gun with his hands. His mom says it's a hand gesture that could have easily been corrected.
...
"I got a call from the School saying he's not raising his hand or speaking up. He's scared after we talked about not doing any gestures, he probably doesn't want to to do it because that could be a gesture. It might get him pulled out for two days," said Hurtado.
Manuel's mom doesn't see anything wrong with her son putting his hands like this and shooting down at the ground. She doesn't think it poses an immediate threat to the school or Manuel's classmates. We took the issue to School District employees and asked them about their policy.
"When students are at school they should be concerned about learning….safety shouldn't be a concern at school, we have a zero tolerance policy," said Dr. John Irion, from the Yakima School District.
Source: http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11979866
Manuel's mom is trying to clear his name--she still thinks he's a good kid. How cliche.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
In education courses, you have a course called human growth and development where they teach you about Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg. Those were the great theorists of education.
They teach you what a person knows at each stage of his life from newborn to old age.
Have these inept educators forgotten that in this story?
Piaget says that a five year old does not have critical thinking skills--the pre-operational stage of life.
Great, now you expel this kid, wow, what have you accomplished?
These zero tolerance policies are so very stupid, why not do it the old fashioned way--take the child by the side, and tell him WHY the behavior is wrong? This kind of inept thinking is the reason why America's prisons are so overcrowded when it shouldn't be that way! What kind of stupidity is going on in this once great nation?
What are they doing to children? Childhood cannot be innocent anymore where we make mistakes and learn from it.
God why?
Proof just because you have a Dr. before your name doesn't make you intelligent.
