Originally Posted by Gardengirl09
... time taken off of recess for some of the kids being too noisy when going out to recess... Has anyone else had to deal with this? ...
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Originally Posted by eyreapparent
... unfair that your daughter is being punished by having time deducted from recess... she feels she is being penalized when others misbehave... classroom management issue.
Yes, this is so widespread that it has a name, actually two names: Group punishment and Collective punishment. Here is a discussion on a public forum 6 years ago, showing that parents have had issue with collective punishment for years. (link- http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=201204)

PsychWiki shares this about Collective Punishment::
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The idea of collective punishment is to create an incentive for groups to regulate other group member's behavior. In effect, collective punishment is an attempt to induce a new social norm within an outgroup.
Meanwhile some school districts which practice collective punishment also have policies which specifically forbid students from addressing another student's behavior, which may present a bit of a discrepancy between the two policies/practices.

WikiAnswers addresses the question, "In school is collective punishment legal?" by stating that school children do not have the same "rights" which exist elsewhere in USA society.

Treating people as groups rather than individuals may be more closely aligned with socialist and communist idealism, than with American ideals like liberty.

Beyond the common example of missing recess, another facet of collective punishment in schools is collective grading: the requirement for students to perform group work and receive a common grade. This may have a punitive impact on a student's grade when others in the assigned group may abandon work or not perform according to requirements stated on a grading rubric.

These practices appear to be ever more commonly adopted into more classrooms. While some parents may band together and address this with their local districts, others may continue to leave the schools in favor of homeschooling.