About that silent lunch
How many of you remember me discussing the silent lunch ordeal? It’s here if you wanna read it. I have to add what happened after the fact. I told his teacher on Friday morning that he was spanked for getting in trouble.
She, in turn, tells me that Ditto Boy was being sincere. He did not understand what had happened. This means he was punished and he was clueless. Now, I know that’s unacceptable if you are an adult, but I feel like total crap now.
See, he told me he didn’t know it was silent lunch. And, I called him on it assuring him that his teacher was very clear when it was silent lunch and when it wasn’t. I asked him if he wanted me to turn around and go back to the school to talk to her. And, he got upset and said no.
I thought that was truly an indication that he was trying to get out of more punishment. When, in fact, he was right. On Friday when I picked him up (most everyone checked out early to go to the local football teams homecoming parade), she told me that she talked to him about it and that he really was confused.
Apparently I was too. The entire class did not have silent lunch, but because Walker and another little boy were too loud, they were moved to seats away from one another and given silent lunch. However, they didn’t comply with the rule at that point. (This is where his teacher assures me that he did not know he was on silent lunch, he just thought he was suppose to be moving away from his friend).
And, since he did continue to talk, he lost his 15 minutes of PE. And, he lost 30 minutes of play time at McD’s with his brother AND he got a spanking. Now, tell me I don’t deserve the Mother of the Year award! Bah!
October 6th, 2008 at 9:17 am
One of the pleasures of homeschooling is that you know what your kids did and you know what happened in response to it.
Furthermore, your ability to deal with it happens with the incident and doesn’t effect other family plans.