As for discipline/behavior charts, this is a problem for him. In kindg, there was a complicated 7 color behavior chart. Everyone started in the middle on green. You could move down three steps (yellow-orange-red) and move up three (blue-purple-pink). He obsessed over this the first few weeks of kindergarten--drawing it over and over and putting them up in his room. Looking back, I wish I had taken this as a sign. He never moved past blue, and to my knowledge only one child ever made it up to pink. At the beginning of the school year, he told me that he understood how to move down but he didn't understand how to move up. I did ask the teacher, and she was very vague "doing good deeds" or something like that. He still talks about the time he moved up to blue and what he did.
Awww, I hate when they do crap like this in kindergarten... poor kiddo.
Says a great deal about the teacher's own personality, doesn't it? We never had good luck with those types of charts, either. Charts for doing specific tasks, yes, those can work. Colors for behavior, nope. In fact, our ODS had one teacher who was kind enough to listen to us describe why they had not worked at home (i.e. this child needs to be motivated from within and sees your charts as a game that he won't win) and stop using them with him. Things got better for him in her class. She just gave him feedback on what she saw from him that day.
