Any teachers? Is this annoying?

[Anonymous]

My kindergarten daughter yesterday at the park found a neat fossilized rock. She wanted to take it to show her class, and I told her she could ask the teacher if she could. When I asked her about it, she told me, in her 5-year-old way, that her teacher was sort of annoyed, and made her take it outside at recess if she wanted to show her class. My daughter was a little sad, not that that is my issue. Is this sort of thing annoying to teachers? In hindsight, it's probably annoying first thing in the morning. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the teacher was grossed out by a dirty rock and instead of being inspired to teach the class about fossils, she suggested she show the kids on her own time during recess. Sadly, this is an example of how girls are not encouraged to be scientists because the teacher didn't see what was cool about it and missed the opportunity to teach about science. Epic teaching fail.

[Anonymous]

Weird behavior on the teacher's part, if it really happened like that. Unfortunately, you can't be quite sure it did.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.

This was my exact thought when she told me today. Kindergarten isn't what it used to be. Sadly, I probably won't encourage her to send things in again. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.

To be fair, if there's no timer on a long line of kids at water fountain, those camels will suck down a water tanker each. During group water breaks where I teach, the kids spell out w-a-t-e-r to time each other. Kids are free to use the classroom fountain individually whenever they want, untimed, so long as they don't linger.

That recess thing though... Shameful. I would never do that.

OP, I don't know about your situation. In the teacher's place, I would allow the show and tell if we had time, but we don't always have time. And if I let one kid share, chances are there are plenty of others who have some treasure they also want to share, and it's just not always possible. Maybe the teacher didn't have time that day, but still wanted to value DD's excitement, so she suggested she could share at recess instead of waiting for a different day. And my kindergarten DD has no idea when people are "annoyed," so I'm not sure how much stock I would put in that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.

2nd grade is worse. A lot of kids have anxiety because these teachers have no time to even look them in the eye, smile, etc... It is like a drill sergeant in the army. I have volunteered three times and my anxiety is high, no joke. Public school sucks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kindergarten daughter yesterday at the park found a neat fossilized rock. She wanted to take it to show her class, and I told her she could ask the teacher if she could. When I asked her about it, she told me, in her 5-year-old way, that her teacher was sort of annoyed, and made her take it outside at recess if she wanted to show her class. My daughter was a little sad, not that that is my issue. Is this sort of thing annoying to teachers? In hindsight, it's probably annoying first thing in the morning. Thoughts?

So you thought you could tell the teacher how to schedule the day?

Your kid's teacher gave her a time she could share the rock, and your daughter didn't like that.

Your daughter is probably used to being the center of attention and having everything stop at her whims and discoveries. Fine at home if that's how you choose to operate, but you can't expect the rest of the world kindergarten included to bend to her schedule and what she wants to talk about.


You shouldn't let your kids bring things in and tell them maybe teacher will let them do X because you don't want to tell them to leve it in the park or car.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here , and I would let her share at dismissal or morning g meeting. I teach 2nd grade and yes, not a minute is wasted. The county has us fitting an astonishing amount of content down the brains of children who are sometimes not ready for acquisition of that knowledge. Some of my ELLs struggle just to understand what is being said, much less what we are to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the teacher was grossed out by a dirty rock and instead of being inspired to teach the class about fossils, she suggested she show the kids on her own time during recess. Sadly, this is an example of how girls are not encouraged to be scientists because the teacher didn't see what was cool about it and missed the opportunity to teach about science. Epic teaching fail.

Nice sock puppetry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kindergarten daughter yesterday at the park found a neat fossilized rock. She wanted to take it to show her class, and I told her she could ask the teacher if she could. When I asked her about it, she told me, in her 5-year-old way, that her teacher was sort of annoyed, and made her take it outside at recess if she wanted to show her class. My daughter was a little sad, not that that is my issue. Is this sort of thing annoying to teachers? In hindsight, it's probably annoying first thing in the morning. Thoughts?

So you thought you could tell the teacher how to schedule the day?

Your kid's teacher gave her a time she could share the rock, and your daughter didn't like that.

Your daughter is probably used to being the center of attention and having everything stop at her whims and discoveries. Fine at home if that's how you choose to operate, but you can't expect the rest of the world kindergarten included to bend to her schedule and what she wants to talk about.


You shouldn't let your kids bring things in and tell them maybe teacher will let them do X because you don't want to tell them to leve it in the park or car.

Oh please. This isn't about a special snowflake. This is about how the public schools don't have time to encourage exploration and discovery, excitement about the subjects that don't get enough attention as it is (science).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.

This was my exact thought when she told me today. Kindergarten isn't what it used to be. Sadly, I probably won't encourage her to send things in again. Sad.

Honey. It's a rock. Buck up.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a teacher, but as a mom of two, I see the problem. If one kid brings something, all will want to. Maybe you think the rock is cool, but my son collects sticks on our walks and would want to bring in a stick because he thinks it's cool. Multiply that by the number of kids in the class. I think the recess idea was a good one. She can still show it to anyone who is interested. Why does the teacher need to be involved with your daughters showing her rock?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher, but as a mom of two, I see the problem. If one kid brings something, all will want to. Maybe you think the rock is cool, but my son collects sticks on our walks and would want to bring in a stick because he thinks it's cool. Multiply that by the number of kids in the class. I think the recess idea was a good one. She can still show it to anyone who is interested. Why does the teacher need to be involved with your daughters showing her rock?

But OP's daughter's rock is special because OP's daughter found it. Therefore the teacher should take the needed amount of time fo OP's dd to show off the rock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kindergarten daughter yesterday at the park found a neat fossilized rock. She wanted to take it to show her class, and I told her she could ask the teacher if she could. When I asked her about it, she told me, in her 5-year-old way, that her teacher was sort of annoyed, and made her take it outside at recess if she wanted to show her class. My daughter was a little sad, not that that is my issue. Is this sort of thing annoying to teachers? In hindsight, it's probably annoying first thing in the morning. Thoughts?

So you thought you could tell the teacher how to schedule the day?

Your kid's teacher gave her a time she could share the rock, and your daughter didn't like that.

Your daughter is probably used to being the center of attention and having everything stop at her whims and discoveries. Fine at home if that's how you choose to operate, but you can't expect the rest of the world kindergarten included to bend to her schedule and what she wants to talk about.


You shouldn't let your kids bring things in and tell them maybe teacher will let them do X because you don't want to tell them to leve it in the park or car.

Asking for a minute or two to show something really cool is not telling anyone how to schedule the day.

OP, your teacher sounds weird. Most would use a cool fossil as a teaching moment.