5/27/06 "Il pochi il fiero i blabbermouths" We *will* sail again

[kikipug]

Some people are just unhappy! You've seen the types.

And some of us married their sons...

 

[tinksdad]

And some of us married their sons...

My condolences!

Hope that trait wasn't past on.....

 

[kikipug]

My condolences!

Hope that trait wasn't past on.....

No, thank goodness.

So I get the usual weekly call from the school nurse, telling me that DD isn't feeling well and wants to come home. I tell her to go back to class... which she does, for an hour, and then claims to be so sick that she is 'too dizzy' to walk back to the nurse's office. (so they send a wheelchair for her... Miss MELODROMATIC!!!!)... I now have her at home (at the nurses' insistence), and she's on the couch, watching Princess Diaries 2 , like nothing ever happened...

Hey Mike... got a cure for hypochondria???

 

[tinksdad]

No, thank goodness.

So I get the usual weekly call from the school nurse, telling me that DD isn't feeling well and wants to come home. I tell her to go back to class... which she does, for an hour, and then claims to be so sick that she is 'too dizzy' to walk back to the nurse's office. (so they send a wheelchair for her... Miss MELODROMATIC!!!!)... I now have her at home (at the nurses' insistence), and she's on the couch, watching Princess Diaries 2 , like nothing ever happened...

Hey Mike... got a cure for hypochondria???

We have one of those too. Would that cure be for "Drama Queenitis"?

 

[kikipug]

We have one of those too. Would that cure be for "Drama Queenitis"?

I get a call at LEAST once a week... and I work 30 miles from the school ... I manage to send her back to class 95% of the time... didn't work today... I think because she told the nurse that the rest of the family has been sick.

 

[tinksdad]

I get a call at LEAST once a week... and I work 30 miles from the school ... I manage to send her back to class 95% of the time... didn't work today... I think because she told the nurse that the rest of the family has been sick.

OK, you win!!

Our DD isn't THAT bad. Is she having problems in school? Sounds like maybe she would rather be somewhere else.

 

[kikipug]

OK, you win!!

Our DD isn't THAT bad. Is she having problems in school? Sounds like maybe she would rather be somewhere else.

She despises her teacher ... and so do I... we are 'toughing out' the year, as I think that requesting a class change just because of a personality conflict sends a kid the wrong message... we all have to work with/deal with people that we don't like. I am sure that this has something to do with it... thankfully there are only 4 months left of this year. (Her teacher is the GRUMPIEST human being that I have ever met who chooses to spend her days with 25 10-11 year olds!!)

 

[whnim64]

She despises her teacher ... and so do I... we are 'toughing out' the year, as I think that requesting a class change just because of a personality conflict sends a kid the wrong message... we all have to work with/deal with people that we don't like. I am sure that this has something to do with it... thankfully there are only 4 months left of this year. (Her teacher is the GRUMPIEST human being that I have ever met who chooses to spend her days with 25 10-11 year olds!!)

We 'toughed it out' with a 2nd grade teacher. She sent notes home like '...is distracted in class because of his grandmother's illness.' '...is distracted in class because of his grandmother's death.' '...is distracted in class because of upcoming (WDW) vacation.' DUH! He once had 14 pages of homework after being sick for one day of school. He's started in a public school the next year and is now in 4th grade. Still talks about how much he hates that school and that teacher. I think the feeling was mutual. He's always been an A/B student, though.

 

[ohiominnie]

I now have her at home (at the nurses' insistence), and she's on the couch, watching Princess Diaries 2 , like nothing ever happened...

Hey Mike... got a cure for hypochondria???

He might not, but I remember when I had to come home "sick." There was no TV, no phone, no computer, no DVD's (like those last two even existed back then) I was stuck on the couch with MAYBE a book. It was pretty darn boring and I usually didn't come home unless I was TRULY sick.

Hmmm...stay in school or come home and watch a movie..... ??? Decisions, decisions!

 

[ohiominnie]

as I think that requesting a class change just because of a personality conflict sends a kid the wrong message...

I had one of those EVERY year. My worst was high school algebra. Terrible teacher and it was a battle of the wits every day with her (luckily I always won--although she never did admit that!)

Ya think if a kid has a personality conflict with at least one teacher every year that maybe it could be the kid??? NAH!!!

 

[kikipug]

He might not, but I remember when I had to come home "sick." There was no TV, no phone, no computer, no DVD's (like those last two even existed back then) I was stuck on the couch with MAYBE a book. It was pretty darn boring and I usually didn't come home unless I was TRULY sick.

Hmmm...stay in school or come home and watch a movie..... ??? Decisions, decisions!

I have decided that its NOT hypochondria this time... she had to stop watching the movie about 10 times to visit the bathroom... and she looks like she just saw a ghost... pale as pale can be... so I guess she DOES have the germs that the rest of us had over the weekend...

 

[ohiominnie]

I have decided that its NOT hypochondria this time... she had to stop watching the movie about 10 times to visit the bathroom...

Well, good. Well, not really. You know what I mean!

 

[kikipug]

We 'toughed it out' with a 2nd grade teacher. She sent notes home like '...is distracted in class because of his grandmother's illness.' '...is distracted in class because of his grandmother's death.' '...is distracted in class because of upcoming (WDW) vacation.' DUH! He once had 14 pages of homework after being sick for one day of school. He's started in a public school the next year and is now in 4th grade. Still talks about how much he hates that school and that teacher. I think the feeling was mutual. He's always been an A/B student, though.

This teacher gives out 'demerits'... she got one today for YAWNING. Give me a break... earlier in the year, I expressed my concern to this teacher about the fact that Elizabeth really didn't know long division, and her answer was, "Well, none of these kids do this year..." I immediately asked her, "Well, what are YOU going to do about it??" (She was totally taken aback...GOOD!!) HELLO... if the ENTIRE class isn't good at something, or doesn't 'get' an important concept, isn't it the teacher's responsibility to do something about it? Now, I have a Master's degree in education... I don't think I am out in left field on this one!

 

[tinksdad]

You mention earlier,

She despises her teacher ... and so do I... we are 'toughing out' the year, as I think that requesting a class change just because of a personality conflict sends a kid the wrong message... we all have to work with/deal with people that we don't like.

I have to agree with that, but with this statement, I think I would be changing teachers VERY quickly. I appreciate your determination to teach your DD a life lesson, but it sounds to me like the teacher needs a "lesson" herself! Have you discussed this with the administration?

I would be HOT!!

This teacher gives out 'demerits'... she got one today for YAWNING. Give me a break... earlier in the year, I expressed my concern to this teacher about the fact that Elizabeth really didn't know long division, and her answer was, "Well, none of these kids do this year..." I immediately asked her, "Well, what are YOU going to do about it??" (She was totally taken aback...GOOD!!) HELLO... if the ENTIRE class isn't good at something, or doesn't 'get' an important concept, isn't it the teacher's responsibility to do something about it? Now, I have a Master's degree in education... I don't think I am out in left field on this one!

 

[kikipug]

Have you discussed this with the administration?

Been there, done that- I could have changed her out of there early on, however, I think its too late now, with more than 1/2 the school year over... I think it would be more disruptive to her than necessary... she's still on the Honor Roll, so its not like she's failing. Honestly, I think that she and her best friend get 'targeted' by the teacher just because they are best friends. At open house on the night before school started, she had the two of them seated next to each other... me and the other girls mother BOTH told her that that was a mistake, and to separate them, but she didn't... until they got themselves into trouble for talking... c'mon- they're 10- of COURSE they're going to talk if you put them together!!!!

 

[tinksdad]

Been there, done that- I could have changed her out of there early on, however, I think its too late now, with more than 1/2 the school year over... I think it would be more disruptive to her than necessary... she's still on the Honor Roll, so its not like she's failing. Honestly, I think that she and her best friend get 'targeted' by the teacher just because they are best friends. At open house on the night before school started, she had the two of them seated next to each other... me and the other girls mother BOTH told her that that was a mistake, and to separate them, but she didn't... until they got themselves into trouble for talking... c'mon- they're 10- of COURSE they're going to talk if you put them together!!!!

Your right about the timing at this point. But, I would still have to make MY displeasure known!

We had a situation when Alicia was much younger and I put my foot down. She was moved, and did much better after that. I would be in that teachers face, which might not be the most productive move. However she would know EXACTLY how I felt about the situation and know that she was being watched.

 

[scuba diver]

Hey Mike... got a cure for hypochondria???

I do.

I make them some miserable when they come home that they would rather be in school.

If they need to come home, they are really sick.

No TV, they spend the rest of the day/night in their room in bed. No night time events, no videos, no nothing except rest.

I didn't realize how bad it had gotten until one day....
"Matt, how was school"
"It was okay. I throw up today"
"Why didn't you call us"
"You would have said to tough it out. So I did"
Parents feel like bad parents.

 

[kikipug]

I do.

I make them some miserable when they come home that they would rather be in school.

That's why I always send her back to class... she almost never gets away with me picking her up--- today the nurse insisted that I take her home... now she is genuinely sick, so I guess she was right.

Last year, I told my son that he wasn't sick enough to stay home... he walked into the classroom and threw up on the floor. (OK... so maybe he WAS sick)... Yeah- THAT one got me Mother of the Year at S. C. Elementary!!!!

 

[Dancind]

Yeah, it's a tough call. I think I fought with every other teacher in elementary, mostly about curriculum. But we only moved her once, in 1st grade. Alicia was going to the nurse every single day, wasn't sleeping well, and getting headaches. I kept asking her if she liked her teacher, she would say yes. She claimed she liked school. About six weeks in, we find out that the teacher had a habit of screaming at the six year olds in her class, and had really gone off on Alicia one day. I only found out about it because two other parents witnessed it and took their kids out of the class. We got her moved, and tried to explain to her "it is NOT OK for anyone, even a teacher, to scream at you like that. If it ever happens again, you need to tell us". A couple of years later, the new principal told me that I needed to let my daughter learn to deal with difficult people (when I was objecting to her placement in the classroom of a screaming 3rd grade teacher). Hello? Why would that be? When you are an adult, you don't put up with abusive people in your life unless you're a doormat. Why would we want to teach our kids to be doormats?


Ok, off my soapbox now. Sorry, painful memories...

 

[dobelover]

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