5th Grader Forgot Homework for First Time and Teacher Made Him Write a Note Home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here: I'm a him, not a her.... You guys (gals) are brutal!!!! I'm going to sulk now...

You complain like a girl. Sounds like your son is in good hands during the day.

Uh, that's not to suggest that he's not well taken care of outside of school . . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here: I'm a him, not a her.... You guys (gals) are brutal!!!! I'm going to sulk now...

I think it's because you immediately came at this like there was a problem with the SCHOOL or the TEACHER, when it was your child who made the mistake. Instead of fixing the problem you were looking to fix the blame.

[Anonymous]

I was a straight-A student, very responsible and all that. I still remember the consequences from the time I forgot an important elementary school assignment at home.

Did it scar me? No.

Did it make me more responsible in the future? Yes.

Just because I was at a "cushy" school like that of the OP's son doesn't mean I should have been given a pass. People rise to expectations of them.

[Anonymous]

OP here again: I think next time I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself.... Just expressing an opinion. No need to get nasty. I think you all need to get laid. Now you can get nasty.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here again: I think next time I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself.... Just expressing an opinion. No need to get nasty. I think you all need to get laid. Now you can get nasty.....

You should practice your own advice...no need to get nasty.

[Anonymous]

Nobody got nasty--but nobody agrees with you. That's the problem. You need thicker skin.

What kind of work do you do? Don't people ever disagree with you, and voice it?

[Anonymous]

Op here: I'm a school teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in a Title 1 school and would have to send 25 of these home per day if this was the "rule."

Maybe a good idea. . .?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here: I'm a school teacher

Yeah, well, maybe you should not be hanging out on DCUM while school is in session...?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I'm with OP on this. If the kid is getting straight As and is doing well AND has ADD and an IEP the teacher needs to give the kid a break and not slam him down the first time he forgets. Lord, I wish my kid with an IEP had that record. Until you have walked in the steps of someone who is either married to someone with ADHD or Aspergers, has children with it, you cannot judge. Some days my kid can't work their way out of a paper bag.

[Anonymous]

Title 1 School Teacher Here: I'm on a personal day today...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I'm with OP on this. If the kid is getting straight As and is doing well AND has ADD and an IEP the teacher needs to give the kid a break and not slam him down the first time he forgets. Lord, I wish my kid with an IEP had that record. Until you have walked in the steps of someone who is either married to someone with ADHD or Aspergers, has children with it, you cannot judge. Some days my kid can't work their way out of a paper bag.

But how was this ADHD IEP kid scarred in anyway for having to write a note? Why should having ADHD proclude him from the practice that everyone else in class has to do? This doesn't make sense at all.

And OP--dude, if you post on DCUM you HAVE to know you'll get opinions. No sulking allowed.

[Anonymous]

OP I agree with you. Nothing wrong with a friendly reminder for a "first offense." MCPS school culture is unnecessarily punitive, authoritarian, and mistrusting of kids, IMHO. We moved here from a place that others here may call progressive but I just call normal, where student-teacher interactions are genuine and human, not filtered through an impersonal bureaucracy that expects that without fear of punishment kids won't do their best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 5th Grade child attending MCPS elementary school. He is well behaved; a straight "A" student, and is OCD about completing his homework assignments (the first thing he does when he gets home from school). Yesterday, he forgot his math homework for the first time. He actually completed but forgot to put in his book-bag. His math teacher made him complete a "blue form" in which he had to acknowledge forgetting his homework assignment; accept responsibility for it; indicate that he would not do it again; and it was signed by him, the teacher, and there was a space for the parent signature. P.S. My kid has ADD and is under an IEP. This is a new-ish teacher so we decided to cut her a break and just sign the note but I really think some teachers should have to spend time in challenging or difficult schools before they are sent into cushy ones so that they have an appreciation for the student population they have.....

What does THIS mean?

No, don't answer.

It means you're a prejudiced pig.

how absolutely disgusting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here: I'm a school teacher

I am 16:29.

FWIW, I teach, too - at one of the ". . . challenging or difficult schools . . . "