HELP!!! What do I say to this "teacher"?

tell your kid to keep his/her head down. do his/her work as best they can and don't make waves. short of that, yank her out of the womans class. that's what my mom and dad did for me when it happened to me in grade school.

I wonder if there is more to this than your answer tells. I pick on my students on the time, but it is only in good fun. We joke back and forth with each other, and I make it a point to keep my repartees in the light side. I have thought before, however, that a student who needs ammunition may use this against me if he/she felt a need to save him/herself in a bad situation. Instead of telling their parents that we were picking w/each other, the student alters the story to make me look like a bully. Regardless of this possibility, I refuse to change who I am because I know that my picking is just innocent fun that allows myself to get to know the student(s) better and develop a more open relationship.

In regards to the word fail, I have also used it. I don't see the big deal in saying that if students don't do what they need to do they will fail. I tell my students that all of the time and tie it into the real world, where they can also fail. I think they need to hear these things instead of hearing that "everything will be just fine no matter what." That isn't appropriate, because it is a blatant lie.

Please don't get me wrong, I know that teachers can sometimes go over the edge and cross a line that they should never cross. I am not saying that the teacher you are discussing is bad or good, but I just wish the parents would sometimes take a step back and get the full view of the situation because sometimes the view they get is very blurry.

I had a very very similar problem. I am a grade 12 student. I dont drink, or party. I am quiet but get my work done quickly and done well. My teachers liked to have "buddy buddy" relationships with the "popular" students... in result it meant less help for the rest of us, people were being made fun of by the students and teachers (there were 3) rumors were started and a list of other things that just made my life hell. Every day i would come home ready to cry and just depressed. We went to the principal - he did nothing. we went to the super - he did nothing.

As a result I moved. its been a really hard year... (thank god its my last one) but I have moved to a different school on my own (with my parents support) and i am now rooming with a family. Its been extremely hard, very lonely and i left my friends behind (which might not sound like a lot but when you move into a large school and your quiet and you dont go out on friday nights... well you become invisible pretty fast and it really is depressing) No one knows me, no ones sees me. In fact I got hit by a car the other day! lol i have 3 months left to go and have been there since september and people still dont know my name. However i have great teachers and classes... high price hm?

I dont know what you can do. I hope it turns out better for your child than it did for me. People like that give all teachers a bad name.

ps we did not step aside. We called a lawyer to try for Anything, but with no luck, There is nothing that says they cant really do that apparently, the super didnt do anything, we had meetings after meetings.

Maybe your school is different.

As a teacher this hole thing sound strange and I would really advice you to first sit down with your child, the teacher and the Principal and try and work it out.

If that does not work, than the easiest thing would be to simply request that your child be moved to a different class. Inform the Principal about your concerns and if that does not work call the Distract office and ask for the District superintendent .

This is what PTA meetings are for. Get all the Parents together whos children have her class and talk out about it.

As a metter of fact i would tell this Teacher About what you are going to do first as well as the Principal and School Board. Tell them a week before the PTA meeting and I bet things change.

get that child out of that class or if not put your child in private school or tell that lady she needs to get her act together. go to the school district and tell them the problem. that is no way to treat children. if she tells them that kind of crud that will lower their self esteemand make them do crazy things. protect your child.

one more thing: just go ahead and find your child a christian school and enroll them there. I am just a teen and I would not like to be treated in such a way

I would suggest you request that teacher's department head to sit in on the meeting. That way you have a 3rd party who is (or should be) interested in teacher professionalism. Also take copious notes at the meeting.

Woman

wow you need to not speak to the principal but whoever is ahead of him in your school district.

that is completely inappropriate and as a teacher, i am mortified that another teacher would behave that way.