DD's teacher has a "cry board" in her classroom
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Anonymous
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DD's 9th grade photography teacher has a board hanging up in her classroom called "closet tears". Yesterday, DD was told by this teacher that she was going to fail her for "not trying hard enough". DD started to cry, as she HAS been trying as best she could to catch up, but the teacher refused to reduce any of the workload despite legitimate absences. DD has been very sick the second half of this year, including being in the hospital and finally getting diagnosed with an autoimmune disease a few weeks ago. The teacher told DD to walk over and put a hash mark on the "closet tears" board.
I was already livid and now I'm just in an absolute rage. She has an IEP for dyslexia, dysgraphia and slow processing speed. I contacted the school on May 24th after we got her diagnosis and asked for an IEP meeting to address her medical conditions. After several email reminders, they finally scheduled it for August 14th. Do we have any recourse to fight the failing grade? And the teacher bullying her students by boasting about making them cry? WTF? Oh, DD has video of the closet tears board. She took it before leaving class yesterday (last day of school). |
Anonymous
| Oh my goodness. I don’t usually say things like this but that teacher needs to be fired or shoved into an office job. I don’t know what your recourse is but I hope you have one and that you’re daughter’s okay. |
Anonymous
| You need to demand an in-person meeting with the teacher, the Principal, and you need to contact whoever is above the Principal's head. This is psychological abuse. |
Anonymous
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14:36 again.
If your daughter does not receive an apology/change of grade, plus an assurance that this teacher will be disciplined and not use such methods again, you should contact your area's major news outlets and complain on the school's social media, WITH the video of the closet tears board. |
Anonymous
| Post a picture of the board to social media and to local sites. Tag the school and the principal and name the teacher. |
Anonymous
| Get a lawyer! Sometimes it is the only way schools respond. |
Anonymous
| Walk into the room, take the cry board off the wall, and take it to the principal's office. |
Anonymous
| This would be something worth bringing up before the end of the school year. |
Anonymous
+1 Admin is still around right now. Don’t wait. |
Anonymous
+2, I’d ask for a meeting on Tuesday or Wednesday, and if they put you off, just show up. I’m sorry OP. I’m mad on your and your DD’s behalf. I think that’s awful even if your kid was ND without learning disorders. That’s just a trash way to treat the kids you are supposed to be teaching. |
Anonymous
NP. And like…a photography teacher? That’s a fun subject. Why are so many teenagers being brought to tears in her classroom? |
Anonymous
| If you need a counting board to keep track of how many times you make the kids in your class cry during the term, it would seem that the problem is you, and not the kids you are trying to shame. |
Anonymous
I emailed the IEP coordinator, the principal and assistant principal yesterday to ask about appealing her grade but haven’t heard back. I did not mention the cry wall because I was hoping to try and appeal her grade based on medical concerns versus the cry wall bullying. |
Anonymous
| I'd storm the castle and show up at that teacher's classroom today. We would have words. |
Anonymous
| How long has this cry board been there? How has it not been reported by anyone else or noticed by another teacher? You would think other kids and adults would also find it disturbing. |