>>I had a meeting during my lunchtime, so when I came back to lunch I was scrambling to get stuff together as well as woof down the rest of my sandwhich. Little did I know when one of my students was called over the intercom would their parent come storming into my room complaining about everything, making disgusted faces, and asking me to explain why her student was still wearing her P.E. shirt. I was first complained to about the fact that I gave the student a pair of my shoes that were brand new and did not fit me. I am so sorry that we bring in clothes for the boys in my class but the girls don't get anything? Then it went into "why is she wearing that shirt?" She ended PE 3rd period. It is now the end of lunchtime. She always changes either after 5th or during 6th. I told the mom, "this is MY lunch period. I do not take her during my lunch period" SoRRYYYYYYYYYYYY. In any case, after she left my IA looked at me and said, "wow i am so sorry you have to deal with that" yes. I am too. It really bugged me. How can one parent make me feel so belittled and lower? I don't deserve that. It really really bothered me. Especially because we have an IEP tomorrow, I kept thinking, "maybe I am not doing things correctly.. How can I cover my butt?" but, then I thought, " I do the best I can. I make their student work hard and get their work done. I am a place for support and comfort. I have helped this student grow. and I give them a place where they can be themselves." What is so wrong with that? I do not need to make excuses for doing a good job.
>>In any case, I was a little down and frustrated. I felt bad. I felt not as confident as I usually am. The end of the trimester was on Friday, so I have been retesting my students using the Fry's sight words and the Slosson Oral Reading inventory. My students have made progress!!!!!! This made me feel amazing. When students are from 12-15 progress is slow going. But, I had a student that could read 19 out of a 100 words. Today, he read 89 words! amazing. each student has shown me that they know at least 10 more words than the last time I tested them (in November). That is amazing. That is why I teach
Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Parents
>>I walked into my principles, Rs, office after school today to tell my vice principle S something about a student of mine he is has in his science class. In the R's office, S and my OTHER vice principle P were all in there. The first thing I hear is is P say, "R! Listen up right now, I am nominating this girl for teacher of the year. You heard it right here". S replied with "Yes! I agree, The stuff she puts up with is crazy and she doesnt even have kids" and R replied with " I agree! I cant believe how lucky we were in hiring her." It makes me feel appreciated. Something small like that really makes me happy.
>>Although there are a TON of things that are hard to deal with in my job, the hardest one is parents. My students parents are such a wide range. (just like students). Some are in denial. Some expect WAYYY too much for their child. Some expect me to "fix" their child. Some just do nothing. and Some are down my throat every second. My student Christina's parents are interesting. I never know what they want and today was one of those days where I got nutty emails all day. Luckily my director of special education can occasionally be a god send and save my butt and deal with the most difficult parents. Christina has the worst hygiene in the world. Like bad enough to almost call child protective services. We are trying to solve the problems and the parents were pretty much MIA when I tried to talk with them about it. So, the "team" including people from other schools, my director of special education, people from the county all met and talked about possible solutions. We let the parents know what was decided that wanted their opinion. Of course they came back defensive and angry. Finally they relaxed and expressed how they want to meet and figure this out, and offered to send me changes of clothes tomorrow. Its such a sticky situation and I wish I could give more details. I'm just glad things are getting figured out.
>>Although there are a TON of things that are hard to deal with in my job, the hardest one is parents. My students parents are such a wide range. (just like students). Some are in denial. Some expect WAYYY too much for their child. Some expect me to "fix" their child. Some just do nothing. and Some are down my throat every second. My student Christina's parents are interesting. I never know what they want and today was one of those days where I got nutty emails all day. Luckily my director of special education can occasionally be a god send and save my butt and deal with the most difficult parents. Christina has the worst hygiene in the world. Like bad enough to almost call child protective services. We are trying to solve the problems and the parents were pretty much MIA when I tried to talk with them about it. So, the "team" including people from other schools, my director of special education, people from the county all met and talked about possible solutions. We let the parents know what was decided that wanted their opinion. Of course they came back defensive and angry. Finally they relaxed and expressed how they want to meet and figure this out, and offered to send me changes of clothes tomorrow. Its such a sticky situation and I wish I could give more details. I'm just glad things are getting figured out.
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