principal's office
Today we will be going meet with the Vice Principal & C's math/spelling teacher regarding a day last week in which she was given five detentions for talking in class during a clay project (not direct instruction time). This teacher has singled out C all year, but being called out for talking inappropriately is reasonable imho, even if you're the only talker in the group taking the consequences (not ideal, but not meeting time) so I've stayed out of it. However, five in a day, in a class you spend less than half the day in?!? Five that were administered as "do you want another detention?" not as, "you failed to follow this particular rule and the particular consequences for that is this so that is what is happening". AND she gets extra detentions for questioning the fairness of the situation. They call that, for some completely asinine reason, insubordination, which is pretty much where I get off the bus. The correct response to "what did I do?" should never EVER be "YOU know perfectly well!" And from what I understand, a student should be removed from class for disrupting it LONG before it comes around to five detentions. Hell, C would much rather have been sent to the office - I think she even asked to be! But in my opinion this teacher takes her frustrations out on her students. Other classmates aren't allowed to even acknowledge the presence of a student who is in trouble! WTF?
Sheesh. They're 12! They're going to act like 12 year olds! Why even teach 6th graders if you don't like them?
Still, I'm SO nervous about it. I plan to let her dad do most of the talking so I don't say anything stupid.
Sheesh. They're 12! They're going to act like 12 year olds! Why even teach 6th graders if you don't like them?
Still, I'm SO nervous about it. I plan to let her dad do most of the talking so I don't say anything stupid.