tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post1203711091076953656..comments2023-04-30T15:12:47.596+00:00Comments on Lisa's Stitching Addiction: Soooo Angry - Need Advice PleaseLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182572208830060896noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-24722747551976419282009-01-23T12:59:00.000+00:002009-01-23T12:59:00.000+00:00Marion has a reading diary, which has her spelling...Marion has a reading diary, which has her spellings inside and she has an area where she has to fill it in at home each night and school in the day. There's also an area for her guided reading and I have to write in it when she's read to me.<BR/><BR/>That goes in her reading folder, as they call it (her bag), along with her spot books, homework and letters. I check it daily, like you, for any letters from school and to get her doing her spellings.<BR/><BR/>About two weeks before Christmas the head sent a letter home to the parents asking them to put any books their child may have at home back into their reading folders and the teachers would collect them out of the bags.<BR/><BR/>As for the sticker, I have to say I would have said something there and then and made sure that if anything like that happened again, I'd rather they write me a letter or phone me.<BR/><BR/>It is possible that, just because you and I both go into our daughters bags each day when they come home, not all parents do (I read with my daughter's class and there are letters in some bags from back in September for the school trip and forms the parents were supposed to fill in and return), so it is just possible that it was done to make sure Erin's parents noticed. Completely wrong and humiliating for child and parent alike, I completely agree and I would have gone in guns blazing.<BR/><BR/>But like Angela has said, if Erin's school is anything like Marion's school, for things like homework, dinner money, school trip money, etc, if the child doesn't hand it in, the teacher doesn't go searching because it is the child's responsibility (I know, at the age of 5/6, it's not fair) to hand the things in. I would say that's probably why you got the letter demanding the money for school dinner. The letter would have been handed to Erin by her teacher to put into her bag, not put in there by the teacher (who would have noticed the money if she had done).<BR/><BR/>I tell you Lisa, it's the whole reason why Marion comes home and I have to practically iron the paperwork before she can do her homework because she just folds it up, or screws it up and chucks it in.<BR/><BR/>I do hope you get it sorted Lisa, but please keep on at them and go to the head to get it sorted if you have no joy with that teacher.<BR/><BR/>HeatherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-15482112729543816462009-01-17T20:34:00.000+00:002009-01-17T20:34:00.000+00:00I would go to the head. You have spoken to the te...I would go to the head. You have spoken to the teacher who is choosing to ignore what you have told her so I see no point in going to her again. Good luck.Stitchingrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06006141649328382137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-19363656182593253162009-01-11T22:27:00.000+00:002009-01-11T22:27:00.000+00:00Hi LisaGo straight to the head, and say that your ...Hi Lisa<BR/><BR/>Go straight to the head, and say that your daughter is missing out on learning My dd had a book go missing at school, this was a text/note book though, with all her work in, she was about 11/12yrs at the time. She had handed it in, and the teacher said she hadn't, she was made to buy a new book(well I had to pay), and a couple of months later, her missing book was handed back to her by the same teacher! I was not happy.Stitcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814722129386858613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-27622391848322532352009-01-10T20:56:00.000+00:002009-01-10T20:56:00.000+00:00The sticker issue is awful and totally unacceptabl...The sticker issue is awful and totally unacceptable. They can let you know in other ways - by letter or phone. Speak to the head re your issues. xxHazelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07391187914615955281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-68081997588716477522009-01-10T17:58:00.000+00:002009-01-10T17:58:00.000+00:00I would go above the teacher's head also and go to...I would go above the teacher's head also and go to someone higher. You have spoken to this teacher twice with no result. How awful for your DD!! I don't have kids, but I do have a 3-year-old sister and I can just imagine my blood boiling at something like this happening to her once she's in school. Please let us know how it turns out.Daniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264011735420763054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-84472314639892120502009-01-10T10:28:00.000+00:002009-01-10T10:28:00.000+00:00Ok difficult one for me as an ex-teacher I know sh...Ok difficult one for me as an ex-teacher I know she (DD's teacher) may well be caught between a rock and a hard place. If the teacher is new to the school this year and possibly in her first year of teaching she may not feel able to go against the school policy on reading books etc. The sticker and attitude to reading books being returned etc certainly smacks of a school policy rather than something a teacher would instigate themselves. I would suggest you try one more talk with the teacher stressing your concern that your daughter is now missing out on reading and try to find out if this is school policy rather than just the teachers policy. Also insist that your daughter doesn't come out with a sticker like that again. If it is the schools policy to label children like that I'd get her out of there as fast as possible. Stickers should only be used as rewards to highlight behaviour etc worth celebrating and NEVER in the way they were with your daughter.<BR/><BR/>Dinner money isn't always dealt with by teachers especially when as you said DD returned to a school a day late. In fact I have never yet worked in a school where any member of staff would go into a childs bag looking for dinner money. It is usually the responsibility of the child to hand the money in although the teacher should have been aware enough to ask DD about it on the day she returned to school.<BR/><BR/>Please don't misunderstand me there is a lot about what has happened to your daughter that sounds very very wrong to me. All I'm saying is that it might be the school policy rather than the teacher that is creating the issues. In which case is this the right school for your daughter.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06877450468297448698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-37143090275558934382009-01-10T08:56:00.000+00:002009-01-10T08:56:00.000+00:00I have chatted to you with my views on this. Hope...I have chatted to you with my views on this. Hope it goes well on Monday!Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06180233992557351653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-2891116563010187492009-01-10T08:12:00.000+00:002009-01-10T08:12:00.000+00:00Go straight to the head teacher, you have spoken t...Go straight to the head teacher, you have spoken to the teacher and have told her that you have not got any books but she is still insisting you have. I work in a school and know things get mislaid all the time, kids are always picking things up that are not theirs and not realise, so this teacher treating your daughter like this is unfair. the head may not even know about this but will deal with it a lot better and quicker, and she should have definately have not put a sticker on your child, so any parent could have seen it, i would raise this as well, do they not know of pen and paper? hope it goes okBevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16702730478619390154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592111183936213093.post-14712816707692302882009-01-10T03:03:00.000+00:002009-01-10T03:03:00.000+00:00Having dealt with an incompetent teacher last year...Having dealt with an incompetent teacher last year (1st grade and WAY more than she could handle), I wish you strength, courage and luck.imnvertedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862448904139398553noreply@blogger.com