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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 234632" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>School punishments should stay at school, in my opinion. If she did it at school and is being punished by the school, then that should be it. You can of course express your opinion and discuss it, but I wouldn't add to the punishment.</p><p></p><p>However, being off school for a day shouldn't be a reward. Even when one of my kids is sick, I don't reward with time off school in case they get a conditioned response to 'feel sick' to get out of schoolwork. So we have the rule, "school work during school hours". With advance notice I would get schoolwork from school and set her to do it. Any outstanding homework, get that done too. Not as a punishment, but merely to maintain activity.</p><p></p><p>I would lay in stocks of spare schoolwork stuff (I bought books with maths and comprehension exercises in them and kept them for emergencies) and when the school's pile of work was done, I let the kid loose on what I had got together.</p><p></p><p>Or I would get the child to watch an educational DVD or similar. It needn't be unpleasant in any way, just edifying. I even got my kids (difficult child 3, anyway) to play on some educational computer games (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? or similar).</p><p></p><p>If one of my kids was genuinely sick then chances are, all they would want to do was sleep. That was the only way out of doing schoolwork. That way even when the kids were genuinely sick, they generally continued doing schoolwork with no fuss. It has also meant that when we segued into home schooling, we had already paved the way.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 234632, member: 1991"] School punishments should stay at school, in my opinion. If she did it at school and is being punished by the school, then that should be it. You can of course express your opinion and discuss it, but I wouldn't add to the punishment. However, being off school for a day shouldn't be a reward. Even when one of my kids is sick, I don't reward with time off school in case they get a conditioned response to 'feel sick' to get out of schoolwork. So we have the rule, "school work during school hours". With advance notice I would get schoolwork from school and set her to do it. Any outstanding homework, get that done too. Not as a punishment, but merely to maintain activity. I would lay in stocks of spare schoolwork stuff (I bought books with maths and comprehension exercises in them and kept them for emergencies) and when the school's pile of work was done, I let the kid loose on what I had got together. Or I would get the child to watch an educational DVD or similar. It needn't be unpleasant in any way, just edifying. I even got my kids (difficult child 3, anyway) to play on some educational computer games (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? or similar). If one of my kids was genuinely sick then chances are, all they would want to do was sleep. That was the only way out of doing schoolwork. That way even when the kids were genuinely sick, they generally continued doing schoolwork with no fuss. It has also meant that when we segued into home schooling, we had already paved the way. Marg [/QUOTE]
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