Freezing Punishment: 2nd Graders ‘Sent Outside’

[The Straight Story]

An elementary school in southern Iowa is investigating an incident that occurred during Thursday lunch time.

Several Centerville parents are upset because they say their children were sent outside without coats, as a form of punishment.

The superintendent says an adult watching second graders over the lunch hour sent them outside to do a lap around the playground because they kids were supposedly being too noisy.

The temperature around that time was about ten degrees, with the windchill below zero.

http://whotv.com/2014/02/28/centerville-incident-school-looking-into-alleged-punishment/

[giftedgirl77]

1. Oh hell no.

Have people lost their damn minds?

[Cleita]

2. When I was in parochial school, the nuns would punish the class by sending us outside

to kneel on hot pavement in weather that often ranged from one hundred to one hundred and ten degrees for an hour with no shade. This happened about once a week. Our mothers' wondered why we were always sunburned and with scabby knees. This was more than sixty years ago and notions of child discipline have changed since then, I thought but I guess not.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Kids committing minor infractions at my elementary school

were just made to stand out in the hall for a while. Kids committing major infractions had a painful meeting with the "board of education".

[Cleita]

10. Most of us hadn't done anything. The whole class was punished for what a few did.

It was always the same kids too. I think those were ADD kids but they didn't know about that back then so they just punished them instead, and the rest of us.

[MicaelS]

3. Moronic school personnel keep doing stupid shit.

With their Zero Tolerance bullshit, and stupid shit like the school in Iowa, one of these days some parent is going to walk into a school and kill one of these morons. I won't be a bit surprised when it happens. To the contrary, I feel it is only a matter of time before it happens.

[frogmarch]

4. Law enforcement should handle this, not

the school's principal! Doing this to kids should be considered a crime.

[laundry_queen]

6. I agree. nt

[In_The_Wind]

5. Sounds like child abuse to me.

[Cleita]

8. It is child abuse, plain and simple. n/t

[Eleanors38]

7. "Too noisy?" Beats sullen, dispirited silence. Christ.