Don't know where to start...

but let me find a place.
Today was one of those days that I knew was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Zayden. He's not acted like his normal self since school resumed on the 3rd of January. He has had more bad days than good. Today I knew was going to be a bad one. This morning he was playing around during breakfast and he knocked a glass jar off the counter. I got after him for playing around because last week he knocked off a box of legos. When I got after him he got a bit emotional and he usually doesn't when he just gets in trouble with no consequences. I should have known then he'd be better off today. While I'm still unsure of the adult side of the situation at school today I do know what I saw and how the day has appeared to my 6 year old.
Since it was a rough morning for him and Tony was off I decided to go into eat lunch with the boys. I get to the school a few minutes before Zachary's lunch and something made me want to walk down to Zayden's pod (group of classes) while I waited. So I did. I see him instantly sitting in the pod working on some work. I go over see what he's doing. He tells me it was not a good day and that he had to sit out there and finish this packet (7 pages). I tell him that it's ok and to just keep working on it. I'll be there to eat lunch with him after I go with Zachary.
I go off and leave him be and sit with Zachary during his lunch. Then Zachary wants me to walk back to his class with him so I do. Then I head back towards the lunchroom to meet up with Zayden. However when I see Zayden's teacher I've already figured out that he wasn't in the line. The teacher walks over to me and says that he's had a really awful day and week. I told her a bit about his morning and that I knew it was going to be rough. She tells me that he didn't do any work in reading this morning so she told him he couldn't go to lunch until he had finished the work from reading. I say ok and head down to where he is.
He is sitting there crying and I tell him it's ok and to stop crying cause he can't see through his teachers to work on his papers. He dries them up and gets back to working on the papers. When I see what he is doing it looks very much like what he was doing when I was down there 30 minutes ago before I had lunch with Zachary. I ask Zayden what he was doing and he says that he has to re-do this (8 page) packet before lunch. I pick up the other packet laying there and ask what it is. He tells me that it is work that has been deemed "messy" by his reading teacher. I look through the "messy" packet and do see some spots of messy work, but certainly not worth re-doing 8 pages. (They are writing pages where he writes letters on the top half, sentences on the bottom and then a few words on the back for him to write, nothing to read).
After about 10 minutes his teacher comes back from leaving the class at lunch. She looks over what he is doing and asked him what the packet that was just laying there was for. He says something about re-doing it because it's messy so she takes it and throws it in the recycling. The whole time he sat there he continued to keep working.
Eventually the recess bell rings meaning lunch is over and recess is to begin. He's still got about 2 pages left and he keeps going. He is a bit upset because now he knows lunch is over. He finally finishes the packet at 1:17. Lunch started at 12:45 and ended at 1:10 (I think on the ending). He takes it over to the reading teacher sitting in the pod eating her lunch. She says something about doing his work and then looks through the packet again commenting that it is sloppy. At this point what wouldn't be sloppy now that he has done 15 pages in about 75 minutes with no break. I'm tired just watching what he has done. I say nothing because I'm just observing.
He then goes into his room puts his pencil away and goes to find his lunch. He can't find his lunch because it was carried down with the lunch bucket. Lunch is over by this point for more than 10 minutes. He asks his teacher and she tells him to go check the lunch bucket. He heads down to check the bucket and gets his lunch. He not realizing lunch is over wants to go in to the lunch room to eat lunch. I tell him that lunch is over and that he can't go sit in there. The tables are all folded up.
I care no more about what he is supposed to be doing and take him to sit on the couch by the front door so that he can finally sit down to have lunch. He and I sit there while he eats. The recess bell rings and he's like that the bell. I just tell him to finish eating his lunch because I'm not leaving him hungry or without eating.
He finishes his lunch after the 25 minutes I gave him and we head back down to his class. He goes in to sit down with the other kids and the teacher tells him to go sit at his desk and work on something, I wasn't sure what. I stand there a few moments to make sure he's going to be ok, but I can't take much more so I know I should leave.
I head back to the office where I ask to see the principal, but he's not available. I give a short synopsis to the office person and ask if it's normal that kids have to miss their lunches to do work. She takes some notes and says that she will have the principal give me a call.
That is the story. I'll come back later to react and add some details.