While I agree with much of what you say here, I feel you’re missing a major point. Many kids lack the skills and/or neurology to handle their frustrations in class. As educators, we are often in the unique position for educating not only children but their families. Children act out often because they have not learned skills like tolerance, or, they may have biophysical, psychological, or learned behavior issues, or, they may be struggling with other undiagnosed issues that fall in the autism scale, where sensory perception is a neurological issue out of their control. (Think how you might feel if you had to sit still and focus on a lesson while being in the middle of a nightclub with the moving bodies, loud noises, heat, light flashes and every other uncomfortably over-stimulating distraction.) I have been reviewing the school-to-prison pipeline and what we as educators can do to change the outcomes for so many children who need to be advocated for rather than punished. Thank you for sharing so many thoughtful ideas! I appreciate that you are the type of teacher who wants to help more than take punitive measures.