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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would start by requesting a short conference at a time convenient for the teacher.  Your child should be at this conference so everyone is on the same page.
I would request the conference as "DC is not doing well in your class and would like to do better, and I would like to know how I can support DC at home.". You really need the teacher's perspective here.

However if these are OK grades and just lower than your child is used to, I would tread very carefully.  If your child is going to revert to behavior issues because of less than perfect grades, that is its own issue, the class is not even the problem here.[/quote]

DC is coming home with low grades (Cs) on random assignments but I have no idea what their overall grade is because they get 100s on all the official assessments and it’s hard to know what the weighting is. This is not a scenario where they are getting 99 or something.

And yes obviously there is more going on, which is why I posted in SN. DC is reporting things like “she rolled her eyes at me so I rolled my eyes back” which would have been fine in a playful way with previous teachers but I think it may not go well this year based on what others have have told me about this teacher.[/quote]

This is actually more important! Realizing different teachers have different expectations and standards. One teacher might think it is playful to roll her eyes back while another is now doubly annoyed. First for whatever your DD was consciously or unconsciously doing, then again for not taking it seriously and just responding by rolling her eyes back.

I have a high school aged son with ADHD and teachers either seem to love him or hate him, no middle ground. And when he senses the teacher doesn’t like him he or is being unfair with him he answers back. It’s gotten better as he has gotten older and has become more aware of what bothers different teachers and how to time the right time to talk to a teacher who is cranky.

When I got involved and called or emailed it never got better and my son would tell me not to do anything because it would make things worse. [/quote]

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