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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was just pondering this very question this week.  My oldest came home the first day telling me that his teacher was mean, and didn't like him.  I was floored.  He cried, and told me he was never going back.  My dh was ready to head straight to the school.  But, knowing that it was the first day, and this was her first year at this school (relocated from out of state) I decided to tell ds to make sure he was making the best impression, and to do his best to follow directions.  The second day, he came home saying his day was better, but insisted the teacher told him NOT to bring home his assignment book.  I decided to leave her a voicemail to find out as I could not find an email yet.  Anyway, she picked up.  Of course, she told me the kids were supposed to bring the assigments home, and proceeded to tell me about the first day.  She admitted, unprompted that ds had interrupted class no less than 10 times with silliness, distraction, etc and she had felt badly that she had to keep calling him out.  Anyway, she apologized to me, and him the next day, and I talked with him about expectations, etc.  Word on the street is that this teacher is mean, strict, etc.  But, as a former teacher, I am trying to give her time.  I have discovered, that different teachers work for different types of children.  Hoping it works out.[/quote]

I don't get this.  Your son flat out lied to you about the assignment book.  He also distorted what happened on the first day of school into an issue of the teacher being mean to him rather than her rightly letting him know that he couldn't continue to disrupt the class (10 times on the first day????).  And you are graciously going to give HER some time because she's "mean and strict" and possibly a bad teacher,

And your DH was "ready to head straight to school" just on a 6 year old's word that his teacher is "mean"?

Lady, you take the cake.[/quote]

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