NYC - A number of city public schools suspended kids in kindergarten for misbehaving last year — including three schools that hit the double-digit mark. PS 212 in Brooklyn registered 13 suspensions of kindergarten this past school year, followed by PS 13 in Staten Island with 12 suspensions and PS 115 in Brooklyn with 10. “It’s troubling, because a lot of these kids are being suspended for behaviors that could be dealt with in a more constructive fashion,” said Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children. “We think suspension is very much a last resort because it removes a child from the classroom and it doesn’t teach them appropriate behavior.”
No shit these kids could have been dealt with in a more constructive manner, just how bad of a teacher do you have to be to be suspending 5 year olds on the reg? That's as low as it gets.
When I was in kindegarden (full day by the way, none of this half day crap that some kids do now) we had 6 basic periods a day, and each one of them was a blast, like if you're the teacher and you're fucking this up, you suck at life, because as a five year olds, we ate all this stuff up:
1) Reading - When you're just learning to read this is easily as fun as a Call of Duty session, Thomas the Tank Engine, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Curious George...Those are still my favorite books today.
2) Coloring - Hand the kids some crayons under the guise of teaching them to "color in between the lines" and just leave them be for like 45 minutes. I colored my ass off in kindegarden, had one of those Super 64 packs from Crayola, wore each and everyone of those suckers down to the nub. Red-Orange was my favorite, fyi.
3) Snack/Building Blocks time - Everyone run to your cubbies, get a snack and then go build things with blocks and lincoln logs...No joke, I don't even think my teacher was in the room during this time, think she just went down to the teachers lounge to hang out with some adults. Kids just sword fighting with the bigger blocks, raiding the girls groups that were pretending to play house, and building stately log cabins from the lincoln logs (my specialty).
4) Lunch/Recess - See ya, kids are out of your hands for another half hour...We're half way through the way and you've so far read to the kids for like 30 mins...that's it. That's your entire day of work so far.
5) Nap time - There is no lazier an exercise for teachers than nap time. Tell the kids to find a spot and lay down and you've done your job. True, I never slept during nap time, I always made it my mission to sneakily crawl from one end of the room to the other without being noticed, but as long as you don't have any funny co-ed business going on you've got nothing to worry about (and luckily for you, girls have cooties at that age, so no real chance of funny business here)
6) Gym - See ya, kids gone for 45 more minutes. If it's Friday you can literally take this time to pregame for your night out later, no one will know.
7) Go Home.
If you're a kindergarden teacher that's it, that's your day. One half hour of reading, passing out a few crayons, and the rest of the day is your oyster. Do whatever you please. It's unfathomable that there's a human being out there that can't handle that, so you can see how the public would be puzzled if teachers are just suspending kids to lighten their loads, it just makes no sense.
