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[Beca]

Of course, my girls have me for a mother, so they learned early to recognize and appreciate sarcasm!!!

Where IS that tag fairy when you need one???!!!!!

 

[DVCLiz]

Where IS that tag fairy when you need one???!!!!!

 

[Sherri]

As you can see by the thread title I am . Here's the background:
My daughter (12 years old,7th grade)was out sick three days this week. First,on Monday when I picked her up from school she was very pale. Monday night she was feverish(100.3). Tuesday afternoon,she starts with a stomach virus-vomiting. Wedneseday the virus moves to lower-diarrhea. The school has a policy that a child must be fever,vomit,and diarrhea free for 24 hours before going back to school. So,on Thursday,she wakes up with no fever and hasn't been sick since the evening before-about 5. So that's 14 hours. I don't send her to school because of the policy-I even called the office and they said to keep her home.
OK,so on Tuesday,her teacher says in front of the whole class-"Well of course, she's absent on a test day!-WTH-sure we planned the sinus infection and fever.
Today,same teacher makes 3 comments to my daughter like: Well,it's about time you decided to come back to school. -WTH againbut I really want to say WT_.
I know teachers work hard,etc. but don't you think that a teacher should act a little more mature than the kids that she teaches.
Am I wrong to be upset?

When my son was in Kindergarten he had strep throat, so needless to say he was out until his antibiotics kicked in and was feeling better. A couple weeks later he had the chickenpox. I went to pick up his wrk from the classroom. They were having centers, so there were not only students but parent volunteers. The teacher says loudly to me as she is pointing to his cubby, Whats wrong with him THIS time? I said "Well the first time he was out he had strep throat, now he has the chickenpox. I was under the impression that those were two things you kept children home from school for so they don't spread it to the other children. She said nothing after that, but I did get sympathy from the other Mom's and it made the teacher look like a total um, you know what. Here I had a teacher that wanted to make me look stupid, but I turned it around and gave it right back to her.
My point is, there are always those teachers who need to put others down to make themselves feel worthy. Pretty sad.

 

[Beca]

When my dd was in 3rd grade she got pneumonia and was home 3 days I believe. I went in to get some homework and the teacher thanked me. I said something like, "No problem, she can at least catch up on the reading..." then the teacher said, "Well, maybe if she sees how much she missed, next time she will drag herself in" I couldn't BELIEVE it!! I said, "Mrs. Richards, Megan is NINE years old, the decision to keep her home was mine and the pediatricians.... she is not going to DRAG herself into school with pneumonia."
I was really floored. Still am to this day.

Go, Mom!!! And this is just another one of God's gentle reminders that our children do need our protection....even when THEY think they are old enough to handle things themselves.

When I was in 6th grade, my mom's only sibling was killed in a car accident. She had already lost her mother, so this left only her father. She was a single mom of two girls (and not the most "stable" person in the world, anyway). I was a straight A student who never gave my teachers any trouble. My mother immediately pulled us out of school to go be with family. Her brother was so mangled (he had been run over by an 18-wheeler), that there was a delay in the funeral. We were gone for 4-days. Excessive? Probably, but I really had NO choice. No other parent to take care of me; and my mom had taken us to another part of the state.

When we returned, EVERY one of my teachers commented to me that they were considering turning my mom in to CPS for causing me to be truant. They also "decided" that I could not make A's on my report card that six weeks because "no student who misses that much should get rewarded with A's...no matter what their grades show". They truly made that happen by not even giving me the opportunity to do my make-up work. They just gave me zeros on all my assignments, as my absences were unexcused due to their excessive nature.

Here's the kicker. I had a mom who was still deeply in mourning, and no dad. No way could I bring myself to tell her what was happening at school...she was doing everything she could to "hold it together". I didn't want to add to her problems. Later in the year, teachers called me in for a meeting, and informed me that I would not be channeled into "honors" classes in jr. high because of my "truancy". Thank goodness my teachers in jr. high were kind enough to move me once the school-year started. I will always be VERY thankful to those teachers (one, who even kept me on her rolls, but would walk me to the honors class after the bell rung...it was full, and I could not officially get into the class, but she believed so strongly that I needed to be there, that she lied to the administration for a whole year so I could have that opportunity ).

My point....my elementary teachers wanted to hurt me because of the choices my mom made, but my mom was so "in a daze" that she was too distraught to even notice....and, I certainly wasn't telling!! Had it not been for some REALLY wonderful teachers in jr. high, my whole student "career" could've been much different.

My dd is only 4 (almost 5), and we have already had both AMAZING and terrible teachers. We have also had the, "You're not going to LOVE every teacher that you have, so really enjoy it when you get one that excites you" talk. However, I am VERY in tune with her classes...and, I always plan to be...for better or worse. I would be absolutely heartbroken if she ever concealed from me the way that I concealed from my mom. I really needed someone to stand up for me. I thought I could handle it myself, but I did a really poor job. God willing, my dd will never find herself in that situation.