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OP, have you actually talked to the teacher? That is not clear from your posts. The starting point should always be the teacher. Get over it!! | |||
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Corgis Rock |
My students each had notebooks that never left the room. Each class had a basket for the notebooks. I couldn’t account for each notebook. Neither could I safeguard them. That is, unless I spent an inordinate amount of time passing out, collecting and securing them. Get the principal in with the teacher. Have her explain her accountability (check with your son first) of the notebooks. Have her show that there is no way a notebook could be misplaced or taken by another student. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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posting without pants |
Wait.... So who lost the notebook? The kid or the teacher? Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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silence is acceptance |
I had a similar situation with my son at the beginning of this school year. My son is a junior and is in the Med Tech program. He’s also an A/B student. Matthew had to make flash cards of medical terminology for the class which he did. The teacher said he didn’t do them and was going to Have him redo them but deduct points because they were late. My son was adamant he did them and even said he took another students up with his when turning his in. I got involved when the teacher refused to even listen to him. I emailed her laying out his side of the story but at first she still refused to consider it. Finally, I requested a face to face meeting at which time she miraculously found the missing flash cards in his file. As adamant as my son was when telling me about this I knew he wasn’t lying. | |||
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The guy behind the guy |
Why must the notebook stay in the classroom? Are parents not allowed to view what their child is learning? That concept seems odd to me. Assuming your kid lost it when there are so many other possibilities seems wrong. Keep beating that drum and I’ll bet the school comes around. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Way back, when I was in the equivalent of second grade school, a stand-in supply teacher swiped me around the head for 'scratching' my writing. I was then totally left-handed in writing, and the issue school pens used ink. They were also shaped in the nib for right-handed writing, so it was no wonder that there was the occasional splotch. I went home that afternoon with a sore ear, which was seen pretty much straight away by my mom. She came to school with me the very next day, and asked to see the stand-in. She just happened to be doing playground duty at that very minute. My mom walked up to her, asked her why she had had smacked me around the head, and did not like the answer, whatever it was. The next thing, she laid out the teacher on the playground with a loping left swipe around the side of the head that must have loosened a few teeth, at least. All I heard was, 'you do that again and I'll punch your lights out', and saying that, walked out of the gate and went home, leaving Miss whatsit still sat on her butt, shaking her head. | |||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
Fight for your child, but not with your child's direct knowledge. Any compromise that is come to dealing with the teacher or principal should be communicated to your child as if it was the teacher's idea. She may be an idiot, but her authority in the classroom needs to be maintained in the eyes of the kids. When he's older you can tell him the story. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
That’s awesome! Too bad that sort of thing is no longer viewed with the appropriate sense of humor. My experience was entirely different. Any discipline I ever got was deserved (and probably more to be honest). I was very careful to keep quiet about it too, as I expect the response would have been something along the lines of, “If you are sniveling about it you obviously didn’t get enough. Hang on, I’ll go get the razor strop.” I don’t recall our parents ever laying a hand on any of the six of us, but we knew how we were supposed to behave and knew there were consequences if we didn’t. That said, I expect if a teacher ever pulled anything as silly as yours did, I expect there would have been consequences for them. | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ahhh the British approach to school probllems. I watched a recent Spencer Tracy film in which he plays Lord Boult, who is of financial means. Knowing that his son is likely a troublemaker he purchases the mortgage to the private school his son attends. When the Headmaster threatens expulsion of his son at the end of the semester, he informs the Headmaster that he will be making personnel changes since he is now the new boss. | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
i have not read the response's but my comment based on the op. You do not make the rules. It's the sixth grade. Not college. Move on. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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so if your employer requires you check your tools and leave them there at the end of the day and some come up missing and they dock your pay $500.00 bucks you ok with that "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759-- Special Edition - Reverse TT 229ST.Sig Logo'd CTC Grips., Bedair guide rod | |||
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