Not handing in homework=staying in at recess - Page 3

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Originally Posted by kathymuggle

Ok, I thought the signing the agenda thing was a load of crap last year when dd had to do it.....soooo I wrote a note in the agenda that I thought it was assinine and then signed every day for the whole year at once

I like it. I really like it.

My dd got a whole boatload of grief in third grade because she would often hand me her planner to sign. I would get easily distracted (I was going through chemo at the time, and "chemobrain" is a syndrome most cancer survivors can relate to), and often I would end up sticking it in her back pack unsigned. She would then be kept in from recess. : No amount of explaining to her knucklehead teacher (who didn't have my chemo excuse ) made any difference. I wish I'd thought to just sign the whole stupid thing.

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Our district doesn't allow taking away recess.

Silent lunch isn't allowed for behavior punishment. Kids who don't do their writing can be asked to take paper/pencil and sit at the end close to teacher's table and work on their writing during lunch. It's a logical consequence b/c they are being asked to do what they didn't do earlier.

Someone mentioned the logical consequence is grades. Here, for elementary school, homework is not allowed to be part of the grading system. In a large school district, where huge gaps exist between high achieving and low achieving schools-- policies have to be written which are considered "fair." However, what makes sense as a consequence in one school may not make sense at another.