What is "appropriate"? I moved to a new town with two weeks left in kindergarten, and the teacher was extremely hostile. I never got to go to recess. I was required to sit and wait for the directions to be given when worksheets were handed out even though i could read the directions for myself. I was not allowed to ask questions during story time, which was what i had been encouraged to do at home. The teacher tried to flunk me and had the audacity of saying that i would never be able to learn how to read. I was already reading above my grade level, no thanks to her. Maybe i sound bitter, but she also tried to flunk a friend of mine, who had done all of her work perfectly, just because she was too emotionally damaged and shy to talk during class (basically, for being the absolute opposite of me
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Oo, you do sound strict! Which seems to be a rare thing anymore. I've often wondered about children similar to the one(s) you described, what portion of the home environment encourages or causes that. There was one time i was thinking about joining a club, and one of the meetings was at the house of the leaders. Their children were out of control. Their daughter wouldn't eat the lunch, and first her mother said that she couldn't eat anything else. Then she said that she could have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...but only if she had jelly, too. And the girl was climbing on the counters, put a ton of peanut butter on her bread, no jelly. When it was all said and done the girl had broken all of the rules her mother had set her and there was no repercussions. Are some children just stubborn and it can't be helped, or is it the lack of discipline, or is it a combination? I am frequently surprised by what my mother lets the younger siblings get away with that was so against the rules when i was little.
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