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[Shorty2U]

I thought it was going to say he hit the boy or something which would have been horrible! Sitting alone isn't horrible.

BUT he IS a little kid, so his MOM is the real problem as to why he is late! So she should be getting in trouble not him!

[Sushismom]

So being ostracized isn't horrible?

[Financialgrl]

I think the schools punishment is very wrong but as others have said, but a 6 year old whose continually late, that's on the parents - - so her posting on social media, IMO, makes her look just as or more stupid than the school she's trying to shame. Maybe they should make the mother stay - use a form of Supernanny's time out. Instead of a minute for every year of the child's age, make the mother sit for the number of minutes the child is continually late.

Over a decade ago I used to temp for our school system and the mother of an elementary student whose child was continually late one day stood there and said when he's late it is because she usually stops at the grocery store on the way to drop him off - - to pick up food for dinner - - ya know, since her kid was already late anyway. Some of the things I saw/heard you couldn't make up.

[RainCityGirl]

On 3/2/2015 Sushismom said:

The claim is the student was forced to sit alone, not that he was alone in the cafeteria.

If you look at the picture, you can see occupied chairs in the upper left.

I don't see anyone, but the one kid. Are we looking at the same picture? The claim was that he was sitting by himself in an area where others could mock him. How? Actually there were several claims here that seem not to jive, and I'd still like to know who gave permission for his face to be shown in the media, which to me exposes him to more notoriety. Usually, only a parent of a minor can give that permission.

[hckynut]

Anything done to embarrass a young student to me is not right. I went through through enough in high school from a teacher and I was a teenager. My thought is that embarrassing a young person can leave scars on some that might last a lifetime.

[wildcat fan]

Hurray for that principal!!! States have attendance laws and tardy policies, but most schools I'm familiar with are not rushing to hold kids and parents accountable. Around here high schools have make-up school at the end of the year so students can get credit for unexcused tardies and absences, but the students just sit in a room taking a nap. What a joke! I applaud any effort to enforce attendance policies. Wonder if they have a bus available for that student to ride each morning since the adults can't get him there on time.

[RainCityGirl]

I do not believe that embarrassing any student was their goal. If you read the article, the procedure was used to catch him up on what all he has missed through his tardies. It's a good lesson for him to know early that education is important because he's certainly not getting any example from his parents....or so it seems.

We had a tardy program in my school that dealt with makeup word in school suspension. However, I worked with teens, which is not the same. Most of them caused their own tardiness, not their parents, though the parents didn't do much to encourage a behavior change.

[Lion]

On 3/3/2015 RainCityGirl said:

I do not believe that embarrassing any student was their goal. If you read the article, the procedure was used to catch him up on what all he has missed through his tardies. It's a good lesson for him to know early that education is important because he's certainly not getting any example from his parents....or so it seems.

We had a tardy program in my school that dealt with makeup word in school suspension. However, I worked with teens, which is not the same. Most of them caused their own tardiness, not their parents, though the parents didn't do much to encourage a behavior change.

I tried to point that out in my earlier post but no one seemed to notice.

They kept talking about it being a punishment procedure and the policy itself is not meant to punish.

Whoever decided to enact the policy did it very badly.

[lovesrecess]

The mother is an idiot and so is the principal.

[PIT-HAG Melissa]

"All parents are given a newsletter to outline their protocol on absenteeism and tardiness, Higgins said."

Enough said!

The MOTHER is responsible!