Teacher yelling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I witnessed on several occasions a teacher yelling like a maniac at kids in her class. Two of them were sobbing and I saw her throw a kid out of her room in a very humiliating manner. I'm so disturbed by how she treats the students. They seem scared. I'm scared. What would you do? I know she's popular with the adults. You know charming but clearly fake. I'm afraid if I say something I won't be welcomed back in the school because I think she's that manipulative.

Didn't happen.

Elementary teacher here--I 99% believe this happened. Although I don't believe she's popular with adults. If the teacher is making kids cry, the other teachers know about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I witnessed on several occasions a teacher yelling like a maniac at kids in her class. Two of them were sobbing and I saw her throw a kid out of her room in a very humiliating manner. I'm so disturbed by how she treats the students. They seem scared. I'm scared. What would you do? I know she's popular with the adults. You know charming but clearly fake. I'm afraid if I say something I won't be welcomed back in the school because I think she's that manipulative.

Didn't happen.

Elementary teacher here--I 99% believe this happened. Although I don't believe she's popular with adults. If the teacher is making kids cry, the other teachers know about it.

Is this Fallsmead ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea why people take the time to post nasty unhelpful comments. They are the ones who are bored and should mind their own business. Sheesh.

OP, I believe you. Parents have seen over the top behavior at our elementary school, too. Rather than go to the teacher directly (children often BEG their parents not to do that because they report the teachers retaliate and call them out on it in front of all their classmates), it seems to work a little better going to the administration with concrete examples. If you don't think that will be helpful, you can approach your PTA officers and they might be able to help.

Parents, students, faculty and administration all know who the screamers are. They may seem "popular," but I have found that it's because they are super nice to their favorite students, who just ignore the yelling because it doesnt apply to them. It just takes a few parents to question why on earth that kind of behavior is necessary. It is horrible to model that in front of students, especially when the party line is that children should treat each other with respect and kindness.

The one other thing I would mention is if the teacher is inexperienced, she could be under a lot of stress, which might be adding to the problem.
Like the snarky parents who post mean comments, the teacher needs to learn to self-regulate.

We, and at least 6 other families, pulled our kid out of a local Catholic school because of a yelling teacher.
It was kind of the 'last straw' from a school that had a lot of inappropriate stuff going on, but the yelling was so bad the kids seemed to have ptsd - it was awful.
Yes, the teacher WAS under a lot of stress. It was time to put her on leave and bring someone new in until she was under less stress but of course that was not done and the kids suffered. It was truly awful and we had no respect left for that school.

Everyone who pulled their kids out that year seemed to have had kids who were placed in that unfortunate class and not in the other class (with a normalish teacher).

Have a backbone and go in there to the principal and exoress how this situation is not acceptable.

The principal at our kids school didn't care about the kids - she only cared about the teachers and not inconveniencing then with things like learning to teach or not abusing the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am right there with you. My child in a lower ES grade has an extremely mean and frazzled teacher. She puts her hands on the kids. Grabs their arms to pull them places, firmly repositions their heads to the front of the class while she still is teaching, grabs things from hands, loses her patience, and always raises her voice. I saw it at open house and when I volunteered a few times. I am anxious in her class when I volunteer myself. She rambles directions quickly and then gets super annoyed if someone starts doing something wrong because they don't understand. The kids are scared to ask questions.

It is a major problem but the difference between you and I, is that there are multiple parents starting to mumble between one another. I am nervous about what to do next because I have always been very involved with the school and I have always been a huge advocate of standing behind teachers and working together with them. I don't want to come off as a whiny parent. But my child has begged not to go to schools, makes up stomach aches, has been having increased anxiety, and it is not good. This is a kid that used to love every aspect of school. And this teacher has been there awhile and others have told me this is what she is like. So how can complaining accomplish anything but making me look bad?

This sounds terrible. Go to the principal.

[Anonymous]

What school? you have to name the school

[Anonymous]

There was an interesting article in the NYT yesterday abourt the differences with high performing schools, in this case, Charter schools. One of the keys was that teachers were reviewed frequently and it seemed without notice. And it was not with a desire to catch bad teachers but rather to improve teaching. That just does not seem to happen in MCPS and a lot of teachers get away with very poor teaching. You should report what you saw, and be helpful if you had some corroborating info (what the topic was, context etc) because the teacher will almost surely deny "yelling" and will give it some other label. Our experience is that it is not uncommon in the schools and that it is never a good teaching technique.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school? you have to name the school

Agree.