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I am a 2nd grade teacher. We have a rule that students can’t kick balls on the blacktop because it is not safe. This morning at recess one of my students was kicking a ball on the blacktop and it hit another student. This student wasn’t following the rules and had to stand by the wall for the rest of the recess.
When the bell rang, all the students who had followed the rules lined up to go inside. I went over to the student who was standing against the wall to talk to him. I told this student that he chose to not follow the rules and his consequence was to miss the rest of the recess.
Letting Michigan and Florida have a re-do would have been like me letting this student stay outside when recess was over and have extra recess because he didn’t follow the rules and missed some of the normal recess time.
