When the school tells my Kindergartener they& #39;ll put him in timeout in his own home for getting up to use the bathroom w/o permission.

This is MY house. I decide what happens here. Bathroom breaks aren& #39;t a privledge. You got a problem with it, setup a P/T conference.

I& #39;d love to see how that works over Zoom. Like what& #39;s the play here? "Go sit in the corner?" They can& #39;t assure the child& #39;s safety. For all they know the floor isn& #39;t safe for a small child. It& #39;s a lot of liability with no ability to enforce. It& #39;s not school property.

My kids can eat, drink, go to the bathroom and spin around in their chairs if that& #39;s what ensures they are present for class and learning. If they need a brain break, they can get up and walk away. I& #39;m OK with ALL of that as long as they& #39;re learning and not disrupting others.

The purpose of enforcing classroom rules is to ensure class isn& #39;t physically disrupted during a lecture. That disruption doesn& #39;t exist in a muted mic zoom class.

What& #39;s disruptive is attempting to remotely discipline a 5yr old in their own home over a basic body function.

That& #39;s just schools trying to "train" a child for a classroom they& #39;ll never visit. Kids are highly contextual and enforcing classroom rules designed for physical classes in a remote learning environment is the worst kind of state intrusion.