son in troulbe in school for something I forget to do - Page 2 - Big Big Forums

BlueBerriTerri · 09-26-2008, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jenefer3

My daughter's teacher did that once...there was a form that my daughter was supposed to have me sign and she told me about it and set it on my bed so I'd see it. Well go figure that life would happen and we ended up going to the ER with my son and were there until about 3 am before they admitted him so my girls went to their aunt's house and my son and I went upstairs. My daughter came home from school upset because the teacher had given her an F for the day for not having that piece of paper. I called the teacher to explain and she just told me that I shouldn't bail my child out of situations like this and that by doing so, I was raising a miscreant who would have a negative effect on society. I raised all kinds of hell over that comment (never piss me off when I've had less than an hour of sleep) and the F. After the situation was reviewed by the superintendent, the F was removed and the A was put there since there was a valid reason for the paper not getting turned in.

I don't think teachers should punish a student for something that their parent should have done, that's not right.

Oh, it would have been ON. How dare she say something like that over a piece of paper. I understand trying to raise kids to be responsible, but there is a reason they are called kids, and one missed piece of paper is not going to cause the collapse of society. That is one tightly wound lady. I'll never forget the time I went for a parent-teacher conference for my son, who was about 8 at the time and during a group meeting, they all told me he needed to be better organized and then NONE of the group of 4 teachers could locate a copy of the report card that they were supposed to give all parents after the conference. Priceless.

Ladybug, I agree that he shouldn't be punished for something he didn't have control over.

kelblend · 09-28-2008, 05:32 AM

My daughter said she gave me a paper I had to fill out with pertinent information for her Language Arts teacher. Well, I had a pile from all three kids that night and could have and misplaced it, I don't know. She got an F for not having it. What blew me away was that the teacher didn't want it after that day. Now, if she really wanted that info, it seems as if she'd still want it even after the day it was supposed to be turned in. Guess she really didn't care about the content.

IthinkNOT! · 09-28-2008, 10:35 AM

During the first week of school my friend Jamie had to fill out papers for all 3 of her kids, lunch forms, permission forms. Somewhere during all that paperwork, she accidentally checked no on the form that allowed her daughter access the internet at school. Jamie's kids are half spanish. The teacher sent home a note telling her that she hoped that Jamie's failure to read and speak english hadn't cost her child the opportunity to do research at school. This same teacher also failed to talk to her daughter as she did the rest of the class, she pointedly ignored the girl. Jamie went to the school to find out why. The teacher assumed because of Jamies dd skin tone that she didn't speak english, and neither did her parents, therefore she didn't try to talk to her, or hand her the assignments the rest of the class did. For the first week of school the girl received zeros on everything. It took a conference with the teacher and principle to straighten that out.

On a side note, if they did that to her assuming she couldn't speak english, how are they treating the ones that really can't?

ladybugva · 09-28-2008, 11:43 AM

ouch that's harsh about the teacher ignoring the student that's terrible! I can understand checking the wrong boxes there is a lot of info on them. I put 2 different birthdays on one of my son's paper work at the Dr. office and the lady there never treated me like an idiot b/c of it. Parents get frazzled and make mistakes also.

papadsgirls · 09-28-2008, 04:07 PM

I can't believe that this has gone this far. I can't say much. My dd had a note in desk that said she sucked. The teacher didn't do anything about it. Well a week later I made sure the principal knew about the letter. I think it's time to make teachers stand responsible for what they do, just like the students. My kids get silent lunch for not getting planners signed. They don't get bad behavior over it. I would hate to see them try that with my girls. The boy, If he has a bad day, well he is all boy......