Disciplinary Action/Disciplinary Office/First Week/Fighting
You heard a commotion outside your door, it sounded like the secretary, Mrs. Varano, was speaking in a fairly harsh tone that could only be directed at a fairly young student. You couldn’t make out the details, but it seemed kinda personal. Phrases like “I can’t believe you, why would you do something like that!?” kept getting tossed around. From the fact it was clearly directed at a student, you were sure she would eventually buzz them in, but your curiosity was peaked enough that you just had to go out and check what was going on.
As you stepped out, you saw two rather young boys, probably in the mid-elementary school age range, somewhere around 2nd to 4th grade; one was a blond kid, and the other a somewhat shorter black-haired kid. Between the two, the blond-haired kid seemed to be nearly reduced to tears, “I… I… I’m sorry mommy,” he bawled.
“Well now you are going to have to get a pretty bad punishment from Mr. Gardner!” she yelled at him, and suddenly jumped when she saw you, “Oh!” she responded, “I’m sorry, Mr. Gardner, these two… umm… yeah, this is my son, Chester. He and Marcus here got into a fight.”
“He… he… he said he was glad my mommy wasn’t the one doing mean punishments anymore!” he cried and then broke out into even more open tears.
“I’m sorry,” she said as she looked up at you, “I know fighting is a severe infraction, but they are only in third grade. Maybe they can get one of the lower end punishments and we don’t have to make it a public thing? Oh, Marcus’ mother is a teacher, maybe if we’re both forced to participate it could be a little lighter.”
Well, that was an interesting idea. Although, you were not so sure you should be granting special favors. However, she was right, they were only 3rd graders. Maybe you shouldn’t use a public punishment at the very least.