This has been used as a punishment in schools since Victorian times. So placing pupils in Dunce’s corner could breach a pupil’s human rights, say councils. I suppose this is the latest version of the dunce cap Now, of course, discussions with friends, who too, have little grandchildren (we grandmothers tend to chat about our perfect grandchildren) and this green- yellow -red “card” or “table” way of teaching. And I, therefore, dealt with the situation, but I can still see that little face on those horrific school mornings. Not to be fobbed off, and since it was still warm weather, I stood under the open window of the classroom to hear and see for myself the teaching of this “bangle batterer”. ” Oh! don’t read too much into this, children exaggerate, get things wrong, after all they are only six and seven …. Obviously, I contacted other mothers and two of us went to the principal, who naturally supported the “bracelet /bangle woman”. Discussion with the pediatrician turned up the child’s fear. This fear manifested itself physically, tests ( and some gastric tests that were not pleasant for the child or her mother ) were done. My little girl was petrified, although she hadn’t had her hair caught, the threat was there as it happened to her little friends. The reason my little girl was so upset was her 2nd grade teacher, a person who delighted apparently in sending a message to the class by “accidently” getting their hair caught in her bracelets among other pseudo teaching techniques such as pinching. I breathed a sigh of relief when K- 12 was over and done with. Holding my hand up with total honesty, I hated the fact that every day of the week for months I had to turn my children over to the personality, thoughts and teaching ability of people who were comparative strangers. It has been many years since I watched my little 2nd grade daughter stand across the street, tears falling down her cheeks, holding her tummy as she lined up to go into Irving School. The Dunce’s Cap- green, yellow, red – singling out the children
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