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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Catering to parent emails" when the parent is trying to help the child get the work done should not be seen as a burden.  They're literally trying to help you teach their kid.  It's not like the parent was complaining about random stuff. [/quote]

This should be handled by the kid, including the consequences of lookung at that zero until the end of the term when the teacher enters in late work
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It has been handled by the kid and the kid was ignored!![/quote]

The teacher ignored your student speaking to her in person?[/quote]

Yes. Brushed them off with a "I'll check" (go sit down) type gesture.  But she never got back to child and child doesn't want to pursue in person further.[/quote]

Have your child email the teacher in a polite way to ask. After that second attempt BY YOUR CHILD, it may be appropriate for you to email the teacher directly.[/quote]

OP here. I am sorry if this has been missed in my account.  Child messaged the teacher by email, it was ignored.  So child spoke to teacher and was brushed off.  Then child followed up again with a message and again, this was ignored.   Parent emailed teacher 3x and never got an answer.  I came here asking for what to do next.  And all the crazy teachers jumped down on me.  Child doesn't want me to escalate because they're afraid of retaliation since teacher has a rep of being "scary".

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"All the crazy teachers jumped down on me"

Did your child actually expect the teacher to stop what she was doing in class right then...stop instruction, stop everything, so that she would look up the assignment right then?  Seriously?  "I'll check" means she will check...at some point.  Not then.  But in the middle of classes.  Not between classes.  She's actually busy with tasks that are more important.

Coach your child to brainstorm when it might make the most sense for your child to ask to meet 1-1 with that teacher.  Ask for 5 minutes of her time.

The teacher did not "ignore" your child or blow her off.  She didn't have time to respond to a non-urgent question, and whenever she asked in class it wasn't at a time that they teacher could check right then.  "I'll check" (at some unspecified time in the future) IS a legitimate response.  
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Yes this unhinged parent actually expects that to happen. Her child should be the only focus or "she will escalate!" When OP or her child want something, the teacher better do exactly what OP wants, when she want it  In the span of TWO weeks the teacher has been pestered with 5 emails about a YouTube assignment that probably isn't worth that many points that has been submitted.

OP wrote:
1 "My student has emailed teacher twice about a missing assignment (2 weeks ago). Teacher didn't reply. Student talked to her in class and then submitted the work." So the student emailed two weeks ago, a few days go by and then the students talks to the teacher and submits work. So that is probably around 7 to 10 days ago. The work was late. If the work weren't late then it wouldn't have showed up missing, and then submitted after talking to the teacher.

2. Then OP adds, "I just want to make sure that my student has submitted the correct assignment and isn't confused as to what needed to be turned in."

Now the story has changed. The latest version is:

3. "OP here. I am sorry if this has been missed in my account. Child messaged the teacher by email, it was ignored. So child spoke to teacher and was brushed off. Then child followed up again with a message and again, this was ignored. Parent emailed teacher 3x and never got an answer."

Notice the change between #1 and #3. First At first OP says "student talks to teacher and submits work". Then she later claims the teacher explained, "I'll check". Those two statements together don't make sense. That couldn't have happened in one conversation. Now she claims "child spoke to teacher and was brushed off".

This is why teaching is so frustrating now. There are so many unhinged parents who completely change the story by leaving out details and changing details as time goes on to make them seem sympathetic and to make the teacher seem horrid. 
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