Teachers, if you do this, I will have to complain...

[Anonymous]

If you tell my kids that you are so fed up that you aren't going to teach for the day. Anything that sounds like you are not fulfilling your duty as a teacher will lead to a compliant. DD came home several times this year talking about two teachers who said that they would just let the class teach itself because they were sick of the behavior.
I can understand being upset, but the next step is to manage the classroom, not get on your computer and do non instructional work or personal work. That sets a bad example. No sooner did I hear dd say that when she is a junior counselor this summer that she will just ignore the kids if they get on her nerves!
Anyway, this year, I plan to write formal complaints to the teachers. If the behavior continues, then the principal will be notified, then the board.
I can't sit around on my job without being fired.

[Anonymous]

Get a life

[Anonymous]

Feel better now?

[Anonymous]

The Fourth of July always brings out my desire to complain about teachers.

[Anonymous]

Go ahead and complain. My DD also told me her 1st G teacher put the class to watch two movies and one video.

[Anonymous]

Op, go straight to the Principal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a life

Plus 1

[Anonymous]

I was a middle school teacher in a very difficult title 1 school. Imagine going to work and being disrespected every day. We did the best we could. Admin did actually take management and discipline seriously although they wanted us to move heaven and earth (a suggested consequence after an atrocious class was that I volunteer to hold them for detention for 2 hours after school...... no thank you).

Teachers were permitted and encouraged to stop class and essentially institute detention/quiet working/ reading time if students' behavior made it so we could not teach. It was not intended to be continuous, but helped when they needed a break. If you haven't taught, consider there is a lot you don't know.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure they aren't just saying that and then actually working with the kids?

Be sure you know what actually transpired before creating trouble for the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you tell my kids that you are so fed up that you aren't going to teach for the day. Anything that sounds like you are not fulfilling your duty as a teacher will lead to a compliant. DD came home several times this year talking about two teachers who said that they would just let the class teach itself because they were sick of the behavior.
I can understand being upset, but the next step is to manage the classroom, not get on your computer and do non instructional work or personal work. That sets a bad example. No sooner did I hear dd say that when she is a junior counselor this summer that she will just ignore the kids if they get on her nerves!
Anyway, this year, I plan to write formal complaints to the teachers. If the behavior continues, then the principal will be notified, then the board.
I can't sit around on my job without being fired.

Did you just think of this?

I remember a teacher telling us they weren't going to do anything for the rest of the day. Woohoo!

Until we walked in the next morning. Double the work to make up for the lost time. No patience for any kind of disruption. While we were being jerks, she was planning her revenge so to speak.

[Anonymous]

Question for you, OP.

Is your kid adding to the problem?

[Anonymous]

HAH. You come teach in a title 1 middle school. When there is a critical mass of disrupting kids, sometimes the best classroom management is to stop teaching, hand out worksheets, and sit back and watch them complain. A day or two of that squelches a lot of the chaos for future classes.

But seriously, OP...it's July. Can't we take a break from teacher bashing for a few weeks?

[Anonymous]

Hey, I do not know about the others, but I am with you, OP. My child should not pay the price of missed opportunities to learn because she shares a class with some numbsculls. Teachers, deal with the troublemakers, yes, but still teach MY child what she will need to know by the end of this year. It is not her fault she happened to be placed in a classroom of rabble rousers, and yes, we did deal with this issue this past school year, which is why it strikes a nerve with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you tell my kids that you are so fed up that you aren't going to teach for the day. Anything that sounds like you are not fulfilling your duty as a teacher will lead to a compliant. DD came home several times this year talking about two teachers who said that they would just let the class teach itself because they were sick of the behavior.
I can understand being upset, but the next step is to manage the classroom, not get on your computer and do non instructional work or personal work. That sets a bad example. No sooner did I hear dd say that when she is a junior counselor this summer that she will just ignore the kids if they get on her nerves!
Anyway, this year, I plan to write formal complaints to the teachers. If the behavior continues, then the principal will be notified, then the board.
I can't sit around on my job without being fired.

-K!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I do not know about the others, but I am with you, OP. My child should not pay the price of missed opportunities to learn because she shares a class with some numbsculls. Teachers, deal with the troublemakers, yes, but still teach MY child what she will need to know by the end of this year. It is not her fault she happened to be placed in a classroom of rabble rousers, and yes, we did deal with this issue this past school year, which is why it strikes a nerve with me.

Oh yes, OP, tell us how you would deal with the troublemakers. And by the way,we've tried it all. That's the nature of public schooling - by its very definition, we take all students. Including the ones intent on interfering with others' learning, determined to be giant PITAs.