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agirl -> RE: OMG -- How did we ever survive being a kid (3/9/2011 5:34:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: xXsoumisXx
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
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You know you could always use a phone to call the parent and tell them about their child's behaviour. If it persists, then arrange a meeting between the parent and child.
Hmmm... I cant take personal calls at work. Most parents cant. What happened to a teacher being in charge of her class? I dont expect her to beat a child, I do expect her to be able to handle situations as they arise. A note home to the parents is fine, even stapled to a shirt, because, lets face it, kids lose things everyday. Sorta hard to lose a note stapled to a shirt.
And, sorry to tell ya this, but if the kid felt embarrassed at having a note tacked to his shirt, then maybe he wont try that behavior again. The parents admit to getting progress reports before, and evidently were doing nothing about it. Tacking the note to his shirt, then a sweat shirt over it... how did the other kids see it???
this.
This is the kind of thing that we deal with every day. I pin notes to shirts quite often. So they don't get lost! Many go to day care after school, and they get lost there too. Sometimes, i am out of safety pins, and use the stapler. oh the horror!!! ;)
Our generation tended to beleive the teachers, to back up the teachers authority.
Now, it is all about undermining the Teacher's authority. it is a situation in which no one wins. I hope she is just a supportive of her poor child when he goes to jail...i am sure the cell mates will be kind, and not tease or humiliate him. Because that is his future, if he does not learn boundaries, and that his actions have consequenses.
Why is a kid with a note stapled to his shirt likely to be fodder for prison. That's a ridiculous comment!
I do think it's rather odd to pin the lad's T-shirt with a note, very likely because I can think of plenty of quicker ways to get my attention. (The parents already had that chance/offer in a myriad of ways)
HOWEVER, it depends on your attitude, the teacher's attitude, and what you're going to impart to your child. I made it my job to KNOW my children's teacher, their ideas, their standards, what they expected etc..... so that I could help my children get comfy with something that wasn't like *home*.
I had different ideas at home, I had to *cross* the school on certain ideas... but despite that, they still were onside with it because they knew that I was right alongside and enthusiastic about all the many other things that made up the life the children lived on their own , at school.
I refused to teach my children their *times-tables*, I wasn't alone in my discomfort with wasting my valuable time having my children recite them during the evening. Reading, spelling, math and writing tasks were all fully supported.
I considered my job as .......teaching them to cook, to tell the time, to care for their little siblings, to share, to be thoughtful, to teach them about wild food, to know about the seasons and all they brought, the responsibility of owning animals, how we kept warm (with logs that needed to be found, split and stacked in the house).....These were important things that they would NOT be learning in school....I saw MY job as one thing and their teacher's job as another. Now if EITHER of us hadn't supported or understod that , there would have been a horrible situation.........but it was discussed and as I was clearly supportive of them, they supported me too(even though they would still rather I'd have lightened their load....lol)
If I imparted to MY child that their teachers were incompetant and I had no confidence in them, I could hardly send them back the next day, could I?
None of my children can recite times-tables, even now......they found their own way around that. And that's what it's all about.
agirl
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