Your Relationship with the Teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lower elementary school teacher here.
It is our first day of inservice as students start after labor day. Meeting ended at 12:30 and I went to my room and finally put my computer together and plugged in everything, to find 4 emails from parents of new students. Each of them wants to know my strategies in order to support and engage their very bright child who acts out when bored in the classroom.
I am not complaining -- but this is our reality.

I don't know any child in MCPS who has their teacher assignments. It is a reasonable question. Last year I tried to reach to as my child has some significant concerns and it very much impacts my child and the teacher said that my child didn't have it despite years of therapies and 1-2 evaluations a year. You show signs of a bad teacher who should not be teaching.

DP. PP, you show signs of a parent who will make things so much harder for their child. Just contact the counselor and ask for a meeting rather than sniping from the bushes.

Its not an issue the counselor can help with. The counselor is pretty useless as well.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP, I hear you.. good luck with your efforts but also you need to understand the reality. I am full of compassion for the teachers of MCPS and any other public system for that matter. I am not familiar with private school resources but having some experience with hard working teachers in MCPS I will tell you one thing.. what you are thinking to do is a very noble and smart as a parent but also impossible and almost unimplementable as far as the teacher. If you ever come close to see what an average teacher does.. you will understand why it is impossible.
Imagine a teacher having close to 30 kids in the classroom, having to prepare the instructions, the materials, then teach, then grade, then go to meetings, then focus on individual needs of a class full of kids running the gamut skill wise from overachievers, gifted and above the material.. through kids who are struggling with everything.. and then also you have kids who do struggle with language, math, etc.. then you have kids with all kinds of personal problems, home problems, then you have kids who have all kinds of personality situations, then you have kids who are bully and those who are being bullied.. you have six hours to provide instructions, eat your lunch and do impossible...

I do appreciate and always did when a teacher was incredibly organized and had tons of experience in the field and was willing and able to provide updates on what is covered in the class, but I also stopped expecting it very quickly realizing that teachers do titanic!!! work. I on the other hand as a smart parent was able quickly learn to figure it out from the work brought home and from the conversation with a kid what is covered in the class, what needs to be addressed on the home front if anything..

Imagine a teacher having 25 to 30 kids with such a great variety of abilities, personalities, academic struggles, problems in and out of school etc.. now imagine if each and every parent would expect not only to be informed what is being thought daily but also what is that your very own child might benefit from catching up with or broadening. It is impossible and it would also take forever to write or communicate with each parent daily or even weekly, imagine the amount of time and effort that it would take the teacher, and also that this time would need to be taken either from teaching or from the personal family time of the teacher.

If you have a bright kid you will do just fine, you will just need to evaluate yourself from time to time what a kid knows and what is to supplement. It is as simple as that. You don't need a teacher for that. For the rest is the teacher parent conference. Also as others provided if you have standards and guidance from the system or otherwise you are half way there anyway..

Please do not take away the precious time from the teacher beyond what is fair to everyone and you and your child. Please let the teacher teach and focus on teaching, and do not take the time from the rest of the kids, or the teacher's personal time. They are people with families and their own kids and they need to rest and relax to face the next tough day.

Thank you and good luck!

[Anonymous]

Good luck, IP. You are doing the best you can for your child. Kudos.

Don't listen to the hating Sheeples. Most have kids who are less than average. They are happy when everyone has an average curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lower elementary school teacher here.
It is our first day of inservice as students start after labor day. Meeting ended at 12:30 and I went to my room and finally put my computer together and plugged in everything, to find 4 emails from parents of new students. Each of them wants to know my strategies in order to support and engage their very bright child who acts out when bored in the classroom.
I am not complaining -- but this is our reality.

I don't know any child in MCPS who has their teacher assignments. It is a reasonable question. Last year I tried to reach to as my child has some significant concerns and it very much impacts my child and the teacher said that my child didn't have it despite years of therapies and 1-2 evaluations a year. You show signs of a bad teacher who should not be teaching.

DP. PP, you show signs of a parent who will make things so much harder for their child. Just contact the counselor and ask for a meeting rather than sniping from the bushes.

Its not an issue the counselor can help with. The counselor is pretty useless as well.

Counselors absolutely can help identify how teachers differentiate for different learners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck, IP. You are doing the best you can for your child. Kudos.

Don't listen to the hating Sheeples. Most have kids who are less than average. They are happy when everyone has an average curriculum.

If their kids are less than average, wouldn’t such parents be unhappy with an average curriculum —after all, it would be too challenging for their children.