Comments | discreet_chaos: A Parental Post

discreet_chaos

A Parental Post

Feb 28, 2006 01:55

The last thing that I'd like to do is start an insult game, we all know the truth and the politically correct thing to say. There are a couple of teachers on my friendslist and others headed in that direction. I'm sure everybody that I e-know is terrific, but the odds and my experience is that a huge percentage of those in the education field aren' ( Read more... )

education, kids, language

Comments 7

creactivity February 28 2006, 09:05:11 UTC

I'd let her have it in a parent teacher conference. Or, explain it to her nicely but in a way that makes it clear that she's not to correct your daughter on topics for which she cannot utterly defend her correctness.

discreet_chaos February 28 2006, 09:39:35 UTC

Some of the time, I can't always swear that my daughter didn't misunderstand, but because she was proud of her bravery and had gotten quite a bit of praise, I'm sure she repeated what we had told her verbatim. If I can find an opportune way to argue about the meaning of bravery, I'll probably bring it up, but I'm seeing this more as an eroding factor. There has to come some point, when I might step over the line or when enough discussions has taken place that my daughter loses a little respect for her teachers ( ... )

stubberella February 28 2006, 15:27:32 UTC

I know there are plenty of good teachers out there, but gah! Hearing stuff like that makes me want to homeschool.

discreet_chaos February 28 2006, 16:31:19 UTC

I honestly don't know that I'd call her a bad teacher. We did have an exchange early in the school year, when she marked my kid as "progressing" on stuff that she clearly knew, but they hadn't done any assessments on the subject and when pressed, she confessed that she had marked all of the kids as progressing. We also called her on the fact that they were learning letters, one at a time, but she explained that 25% of the kids didn't know the alphabet and was using it as an assessment, plus my kid and her group started having weekly spelling tests within a month ( ... )

primimproper February 28 2006, 20:56:11 UTC

That's got to be terrifying.

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primimproper February 28 2006, 20:57:08 UTC

I forget an "of" in there. Whew, glad I am not a teacher.

beforetoday March 1 2006, 04:07:58 UTC

(No offense taken at all, BTW)

It really upsets me that people with some pretty scary teaching methods and teaching beliefs are allowed to impact young folks. In fact, I'm pretty scared of myself sometimes. What if I screw up? I don't just have a stack of paperwork to fix or something, I have real live humans.

I used to get similarly frustrated with poor journalists. Reporters have the power to really impact public perception of an event or catalyze action. Teachers impact the DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD. If they screw up, the effects are devastating.

I had some pretty stupid teachers, and it seems like your way of dealing with things is appropriate, and should keep her on the "right" track. My parents taught me to go with my gut, so if a teacher told me something I didn't really feel was right, I wouldn't openly contradict her, but I'd go home and talk it out with my parents.

This is rambling and fairly noncohesive, but hopefully it make some bit of sense.

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