Your worst experience with a school or school system

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Anonymous wrote:A top tier private. My DS was in 1st grade and, no joke, three girls held him against the wall (outside recess) while one girl kissed him. His friends told me about it. I asked my DS how he felt about it and he said, "well what do you think, I hated it." I asked him if he was able to get out of their grips and he said, "of course not, there were three of them." The girls were playing and being silly and I do believe it didn't traumatize DS. In fact, I think he forgot about it pretty quickly. Anyway, I talked to the principal and they basically swept it under the carpet. Had my son been a girl, I'm sure it would have been a different story.

Was he evaluated by a therapist? Just saying your kid may be trying to put on a brave face esp if the incident happpened in front of his friends. Hope those kids were punished for bullying /sexual assault and no others went thru the trauma.

[Anonymous]

DS locked in a room alone by the principal because he was "too difficult to control and emotionally disturbed" and "the teachers can't deal because they don't speak English". (He has ADHD and nothing else)

[Anonymous]

When my painfully shy DD was in 5th grade, it was a very stressful year as she was soooo socially insecure.

I met with the teacher (who, BTW just earned her National Board Certification) to map out a plan to help DD integrate into social groups. The teacher agreed to help daily plus set up a lunch bunch/one-on-one talks with the counselor.
I assumed the teacher was following through with the planned as agreed and I didn't want to ask DD for updates because she would have felt awkward.
Spring conference came around and I as the teacher about how she thought DD was doing with the plan. SHe danced around the question as she did NOTHING to help DD.

[Anonymous]

When my painfully shy DD was in 5th grade, it was a very stressful year as she was soooo socially insecure.

I met with the teacher (who, BTW just earned her National Board Certification) to map out a plan to help DD integrate into social groups. The teacher agreed to help daily plus set up a lunch bunch/one-on-one talks with the counselor.
I assumed the teacher was following through with the planned as agreed and I didn't want to ask DD for updates because she would have felt awkward.
Spring conference came around and I as the teacher about how she thought DD was doing with the plan. SHe danced around the question as she did NOTHING to help DD.

National Board Certification is so overrated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

When my painfully shy DD was in 5th grade, it was a very stressful year as she was soooo socially insecure.

I met with the teacher (who, BTW just earned her National Board Certification) to map out a plan to help DD integrate into social groups. The teacher agreed to help daily plus set up a lunch bunch/one-on-one talks with the counselor.
I assumed the teacher was following through with the planned as agreed and I didn't want to ask DD for updates because she would have felt awkward.
Spring conference came around and I as the teacher about how she thought DD was doing with the plan. SHe danced around the question as she did NOTHING to help DD.

National Board Certification is so overrated.

Obvisiously.

[Anonymous]

National Board Certification is so overrated.

DS was placed incorrectly into remedial reading by the Middle school principal. Board certified teacher told me he did not belong in the class--but she refused to go to principal and tell her. He stayed for the whole semester.

[Anonymous]

cont. Principal put him in class based on one test score. I should have raised cain, but didn't. He was actually above grade level. His sixth grade teacher was stunned when she found out. She had not been consulted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole process when dealing with a SN child- especially the IEP process. I have PSTD from it. Seriously.

+1. I get nauseous when I walk into the school, among other things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dyslexic son volunteer to talk at a school wide assembly and the teacher said, "Honey, nobody in your reading group will ever speak at an assembly".

My son (3rd grader) said, "Oh yes I will." ... and he did. It's a long story after that but he told the reading specialist and to stop a shit storm from happening he was given a small part.

How awful. What a shitty thing to say. I'm glad the reading specialist did something about it!

I would write a letter to the principal, the superintendent, and the school board. That is NOT, NOT NOOOOTTTTT OK.

[Anonymous]

^ Your son is incredible!! The teacher needs to be "brought in for a serious discussion"!!!

[Anonymous]

Same but in MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:The whole process when dealing with a SN child- especially the IEP process. I have PSTD from it. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

My son's tooth was knocked out by another kid in gym class.

That said, everyone handled it exactly the way you hope they would, including the other kid's parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole process when dealing with a SN child- especially the IEP process. I have PSTD from it. Seriously.

+1. I get nauseous when I walk into the school, among other things.

I feel you. We had a really bad K year and I had a certain ringtone. The school called so much that whenever we are out in public and I hear someone else's phone with that ringtone, I cringe in horror.

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Teachers telling my kid--repeatedly--that they do not believe that she has ADHD, but that he is simply a willful, disruptive kid. This in the face of two rounds of testing documenting low processing speed and other indicators, plus diagnoses from three different psychologists.

Apparently, the teachers know better--and my kid believes them.

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Bullying on the part of the teacher. I think it is a desperate attempt to control behavior on the part of teachers who are not educated with best practice in behavior management techniques. Public humiliation, punishment for ridiculous things... This comes from poor administration and turning the other way on the part of administrators. administrators who really care about kids, please provide in-depth training so that teachers don't have to use tactics that are entirely negative and not aligned with treating students with respect and dignity. We have enough bullying going on with peers and don't need students seeing teachers being bullies so they can be just like them.