NOW I remember this teacher!!

[always quiet]

My youngest DD, in 6th grade, has the same pre-algebra teacher that her brother and sister had. I remember this man being miserable, the kids having trouble learning from him and he not appearing to like my kids (at the time, both Kirk and Jeana had him the same year as they were on the 'split team' and shared the same group of teachers). Needless to say, I was not really happy to discover that Jess had him this year. We went to Back to School night early on in the year. During our "class time", he seemed VERY pleasant and extremely eager to help the kids in anyway that he could. Jessie even would tell us what a great teacher he was and how nice he was. Could it be that he had changed?? NOPE!!

Recently, Jessica has been telling me about how mean he is to the kids, how he has made a number of them cry and just basically humiliated them in front of the class. THIS was the teacher I remembered...not Mr. Nicey Nice! Well, I knew it was just a matter of time....Jessie came home yesterday very upset. Seems that on Tues., when it came to checking homework time, she turned in her assignment. I KNOW she did it as she was sitting at the table and had asked me a question about it (it was on finding the perimeter of squares and rectangles). Well, yesterday he asks her where her homework was from the day before and does she have it with her. She answers no, she doesn't have and and doesn't know where it is as she handed it in. He goes nuts on her, starts to yell and scream at her in front of the whole class, accusing her of forgetting her homework twice and then tells her to leave his class!! He also tells her she needs to do last night's homework plus all the classwork that she will be missing for homework last night.

I'm sorry but this man needs to retire.....YESTERDAY! If you can't deal with the kids in a civilized manner, you have no business dealing with themm at all.

BTW, his problems started to appear with my daughter when he found out that we were taking to WDW last month for 2 weeks. Getting him to give her the missed assignments was like pulling teeth!! He kept telling her to find them herself and that she should of checked for the homework while she was out. I could see him having a problem with her missing 2 weeks IF she was having problems in his class.......she got an A on her report card and has kept her grades up all year.

 

[hentob]

Teachers who scream at students are out of control. It should not be allowed to happen.

 

[dmslush]

You need to go to the school and remove her from his class. As long as parents allow him to treat their children this way, the school will allow it. It is understandable that kids and teachers are going to have personality differences. Not all students will like all teachers and not all teachers will like all student, but that doesn't mean that each party cannot be treated with some sense of respect.

 

[Poohbear123]

Yep, hes gotta go! Poor Jessica. Tell her to hang in there.

 

[JennInTN]

I had one of these teachers many moons ago. Geometry. I had such a personality conflict with him that I basically "quit" the class and failed. I knew I was failing, but summer school looked better than putting forth an effort. That's bad.

I was a very good student and always got along well with my teachers, this particular teacher was not a very nice person. I wasn't the only one. He was weird.

I wish Jessica the best. Those who instruct us can have an adverse effect on our studies. I can offer a little support....Tell her to keep her chin up, less than 6 months (right?).

 

[tarmand]

This is why I am an advocate of cameras in classrooms. Do you think there would be so many problem teachers or problem children if they knew they were being watched? I know that there are some horrible teachers out there but I tend to worry about children exaggerating in some circumstances. I can remember calling teachers mean and saying that they yelled, but it was usually a matter of children acting up and the teacher trying to gain control. I know that's not the case in all classrooms and if my kid were having trouble in a teacher's class, I'd like to be able to see first hand how the situation is playing out.

All that being said, if you have a problem with this teacher, I'd absolutely have my child moved to another classroom.

 

[barkley]

NOW I remember that teacher-

had to share-dh is 6 1/2 years younger than me. he ended up with a teacher in high school that i had GONE to high school with! i asked him what the guy was like as a teacher-dh sez "a real jerk, catered to the "jocks" in the class"-not surprising, he was a real jerk in high school and was a "jock" who expected the teachers to cater to him