You guys always lend me new perspective with issues :-) I completely understand the teacher's stance (since I used to teach and remember those first few days as well) to a point...the thing I think I have the most issue with is the fact that these 6 year olds don't have an option to earn their colors back...so once something happened (even if it was in the first 10 minutes of school and the rest of the day was perfectly fine)...you are stuck with that color the entire day...there is no opportunity to earn the original color back. Which seems a bit excessive to me for 6 year olds...the sad thing is once a child is stuck on say the last 2 colors (poor and bad) then what incentive do they have to try to improve during the day...it doesn't matter so what's the point of trying...when your color gets moved that's it..no other chances to improve. Which makes no sense to me. I at least allowed my K children to earn back their points as the day progressed which really focused on the positive but didn't allow for rules to be broken (so if they broke a rule, they could continue to work hard and earn that point back by making good choices).
