Terrible teachers at TJ

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There are many many absolutely amazing teachers at TJ. And in every department. Sad no one ever starts new threads sharing those experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

What does the bolded mean?

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously you've never had a problem and that's why your kid is at TJ? That makes no sense.

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously your kid is at TJ, so... Again, this makes no sense.

You still have not explained why you think the teacher sharing about her stillbirth is at all related to her attendance or her attitude. Why did you think it was a set up?

Because she's saying that's why she has a terrible attitude and missing school.

I encountered the teacher outside of class doing something and I made a casual remark about helping out and her response was basically I'll do anything to not be in class. I mean it was super clear she hates her job. Very, very clear.

She may need some time off. A sabbatical or leave of absence. A stillbirth is fukn traumatic. We had a third trimester miscarriage and that was horrible but still birth would have been worse. Exponentially worse. She may be broken right now and can't it won't take the time to heal.

I doubt the poster above you cares. It’s clear she lacks empathy.

The stillbirth was several years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

Internal parent chat?

I'm a TJ parent, do you have more info on this because the only TJ parents I know are kids that came from our middle school and parents I met at his sports games. I'd love to get to know some of the other parents better but my kid turned pretty free range when he started high school.

There are what's app groups for a bunch of stuff. Ask another parent you know to add you

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I would be leery of getting information verified by "a friend's husband" and thinking that a "B" in PE is related to athletic ability. You are not there in the classroom and your information is second and third hand.

Your kid really needs to work hard to not get an A in PE.

Any able bodied kid who earns a B in PE should get grounded and have their electronics taken away by their parents.

There is a PE teacher at TJ that gives graded written tests.

Since you are obviously not me (the OP) can you verify that I'm not crazy? There is a problem PE teacher that everyone knows about?

The one I know gives written tests on the history of ultimate frizbee and the rules of competitive badminton. I don't know if she had a miscarriage but I do know she seems to think PE should have "rigor" instead of just being a class where kids can take a breath in the middle of an otherwise intense day.

A lot of the teachers are intense.

In my opinion the worst offenders are the Spanish department.

One price of advice to anyone thinking of coming here. Think long and hard about taking Spanish at TJ. My kid has a few years of Spanish under his belt so he continued with it and Spanish is his second hardest class and it is expected to only get harder. So many TJ kids only take the minimum 3 years of language because of the "rigor" of Spanish.

Language is not an honors class and I wonder if this is an attempt to turn it into an honors class or an attempt to reduce their class size.

Here's the thing, my kid is also in Spanish and it's a total beast of a class. He hates it, but he likes the teacher. He's actually good and a nice person. He's reached out several times to help keep me in the loop. I found that very helpful despite my kids struggles.

The PE teacher is not that person. She makes something my kid loves awful. It takes an extra special teacher to make an athlete hate PE. I'm confident no one enjoys her version of PE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

What does the bolded mean?

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously you've never had a problem and that's why your kid is at TJ? That makes no sense.

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously your kid is at TJ, so... Again, this makes no sense.

You still have not explained why you think the teacher sharing about her stillbirth is at all related to her attendance or her attitude. Why did you think it was a set up?

Because she's saying that's why she has a terrible attitude and missing school.

I encountered the teacher outside of class doing something and I made a casual remark about helping out and her response was basically I'll do anything to not be in class. I mean it was super clear she hates her job. Very, very clear.

She may need some time off. A sabbatical or leave of absence. A stillbirth is fukn traumatic. We had a third trimester miscarriage and that was horrible but still birth would have been worse. Exponentially worse. She may be broken right now and can't it won't take the time to heal.

I doubt the poster above you cares. It’s clear she lacks empathy.

The stillbirth was several years ago

And?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

What does the bolded mean?

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously you've never had a problem and that's why your kid is at TJ? That makes no sense.

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously your kid is at TJ, so... Again, this makes no sense.

You still have not explained why you think the teacher sharing about her stillbirth is at all related to her attendance or her attitude. Why did you think it was a set up?

Because she's saying that's why she has a terrible attitude and missing school.

I encountered the teacher outside of class doing something and I made a casual remark about helping out and her response was basically I'll do anything to not be in class. I mean it was super clear she hates her job. Very, very clear.

She may need some time off. A sabbatical or leave of absence. A stillbirth is fukn traumatic. We had a third trimester miscarriage and that was horrible but still birth would have been worse. Exponentially worse. She may be broken right now and can't it won't take the time to heal.

I doubt the poster above you cares. It’s clear she lacks empathy.

The stillbirth was several years ago

And?

Ok, so your coworker that you have to actively engage with every day - after year 3 of being mean to you, condescending, reporting you to your boss and making the workplace miserable. You still would give her a pass?

No, you would quit and find another job rather than deal with a toxic coworker for years on end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this a thing?

I'm a parent of a freshman so I've had very little exposure to teachers yet, but already there are two very bad teachers that seem should be removed ASAP and I don't know how they are still employed.

Teacher #1 -
I've met so many parents independently of boys, girls, athletes, non-athetes complain about this one PE teacher. In her back to school night presentation she talks about her stillbirth. Which I think was set up to prepare us for her constant absences and negative attitude.

My varsity athlete in 3 sports absolutely dreads PE with her and has a B despite actually trying and being one of the best (insert any activity they're doing). She actively goes after them too. I only get constant negative reports from her when no other teacher ever even sends me an email.

You are obviously a miserable person who possesses less empathy than a rock.

1. The teacher presenting about her stillborn baby is not a "set up." What would make you think she'd constantly be absent just because she shared a detail about her family and its tragic loss? And then you assume that because the teacher lost a child, she will have a negative attitude? What is wrong with you? Show some compassion.

2. Being a multi-sport athlete does not mean your kid is a stellar PE student. Maybe he refuses to follow rules, learn new skills, and/or do his work in Health or Driver's Ed.

3. Maybe you only get negative reports from the one teacher because your kid has picked up on your holier than thou approach, thinking your kid is perfect, or maybe he's picked up on your piss poor attitude about non-academic classes.

Maybe this teacher is indeed a terrible teacher. Or maybe you and/or your kid are the problem. I predict it's the latter.

I've never, ever had a problem with a school or a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously, kid is at TJ. But also, there are ***lots*** of other parents having the same issue with this teacher as discussed on an internal parents chat. I confirmed in person that it was, indeed, the same teacher we were all complaining about.

I'm a recurrent pregnancy loss patient myself but I'm done with her piss poor attitude.

What does the bolded mean?

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously you've never had a problem and that's why your kid is at TJ? That makes no sense.

You've never had a problem with a teacher before this one in particular. Obviously your kid is at TJ, so... Again, this makes no sense.

You still have not explained why you think the teacher sharing about her stillbirth is at all related to her attendance or her attitude. Why did you think it was a set up?

Because she's saying that's why she has a terrible attitude and missing school.

I encountered the teacher outside of class doing something and I made a casual remark about helping out and her response was basically I'll do anything to not be in class. I mean it was super clear she hates her job. Very, very clear.

I wouldn’t trust the opinion of any adult who writes like a 12 year old.

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