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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher's answer:

1. Meet directly with the teacher and repeat what you have heard is happening.  See if they will address it directly, put it context, apologize, lose their cool with you too, etc.

2.  If that doesn't fix it, meet with the dean or director (if you are sure your facts are correct).  Put it to them that this conduct is unacceptable and will create an image problem for the school.

3.  If that doesn't fix it and you haven't applied out yet, see the head of school.

If they all tell you the conduct is fine as is, start looking elsewhere. Some otherwise elite-looking institutions have rotten corporate cultures and hire the same.

Any teacher who humiliates students needs their chain yanked hard to stop.  It has no place in teaching outside a pre-1960 UK boarding school.[/quote

At what point do you believe it’s appropriate for students to deal with/manage teachers whom they don’t like without their parents managing it for them?   Juniors?  Seniors?   College?  Their first job?   Are you going to meet with their very mean no good math teacher when they are 17?   And escalate it!

You do your child no favor when you don’t let them advocate and figure difficult situations out for themselves.[/quote]

An older, experienced teacher with a snarky attitude and apparent contempt for students to begin with meeting alone with a student is going to carve them up and have them for breakfast.  The kid has zero leverage except his complaint, while the teacher has all kinds of institutional standing.  Presumably, the school has backed him before against probably similar complaints. Can the kid prove anything that is said at this meeting later? Nope.  Teacher gets the last word.

You can do the performative thing or try to get it fixed.  If I were this teacher with his attitude, a kid coming in to fuss wouldn't even dent my facade.[/quote]

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