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Parent Puts Kid On Corner With Sign: Good Or Idea Or Bad?

A PARENT IN FLORIDA IS HOPING HER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT LEARNED HIS LESSON, AFTER HE WAS RUDE TO HIS TEACHER.

AS ROGER WEEDERHAS REPORTS, THE BOY'S MOTHER MADE HIM HOLD UP A SIGN APOLOGIZING FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.

HOLDING A SIGN SAYING "I WAS RUDE TO MY TEACHER" HAD THIS SECOND GRADER ON THE CORNER WITH HIS MOTHER...MARCIA HARVEY NEARBY.

HIS ACTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM AT BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY..ACTING UP..HAD MOM TAKING ACTION OF HER OWN.

"I love my son very much," Marcia Harvey said. "So I decided to have him hold a sign up to let him know what attention he was really attracting and let him know that he had lost his rights."

THE WRITING ON HIS SIGN ALSO SAID I WILL MAKE GOOD CHOICES.

"I got to be good in school," Roland Harvey.

THE 12 YEAR OLD GOT ENCOURAGEMENT TOO...TO DO THE RIGHT THING. A GARBAGE MAN WHO DROVE BY TOLD HIM TO BE GOOD.

"I want to see him be successful in life. This is something I thought that would maybe get his attention," Marcia Harvey said.

THE KIND OF ATTENTION MOM HOPES CHANGES BEHAVIOR.

Published Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:48 AM by Kiyoshi Tomono

Comments

 

catpaw said:

Sounds like a sensible mom to me. I'm sure the lesson isn't lost on the kid. I recall at about age 9 or 10 my mother caught me with gum and candy I shoplifted from a neighborhood store. I had to go to the store, ask for the mgr, return the loot, apologize and promise not to ever do it again. All this in front of customers, some of whom knew who I was. Never so humiliated in my life. But it ended my criminal career.

Unlike a spanking or grounding, I had to face my crime victim and make ammends in public. I think juvenile lawbreakers should be held to the same standard of account, rather than keep them confidential. Their psyche isn't that fragile.
February 7, 2008 3:04 PM
 

Semper Fi said:

Now there is a MOTHER right there...exercising her responsibility as a mother and a parent. I was glad to see that she found an alternitive to the old fashion spanking...or if she's anything like my parents,we got that spanking too. But I don't think her son will be disrespecting any of his elders anytime soon...so yes,she did good...
Of course,that's just my opinion
February 14, 2008 11:33 AM
 

Civilized Revolt » Humility: A Good Punishment said:

February 24, 2008 7:47 PM
 

Kiyoshi Tomono said:

Catpaw--
Sounds like a reasonable move to me.  My parents would have done the same thing.  It's a pretty good deterrent.
March 14, 2008 7:27 AM
 

MaryannFleming said:

I wish some parents were more like her. Maybe there wouldn't be so much disrespect from young children.
May 23, 2008 3:30 PM
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About Kiyoshi Tomono

Kiyoshi Tomono joined the 17 News team in March of 2004. He currently anchors 17 News at Sunrise and reports for other newscasts. Kiyoshi has won two Golden Mike Awards and an Associated Press Mark Twain award for his investigative and feature reporting. He is also the recipient of the 2008 RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for investigating reporting on Crisp and Cole Real Estate that ended in an FBI raid of the company

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