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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]

Wow, thanks for the productive feedback.  I really appreciate it.  First of all, the reason my dh was so upset was that ds came home crying on his first day.  This has NEVER happened since he started school.  (he is in 4th now) Did we actually do anything that day? No.  We asked ds why he thought he was mean, and began to suspect that his behavior may have had something to do with it.  We told him to be absolutely sure that he was making the best impression on the teacher, and following directions.  We told him to check his behavior the next day, and indeed, his second day was much better.  We told him that if he did not bring his assignment book home from now on, he would lose any screen time that night, as we could not determine if he had finished his homework without the assignments.  Once we verified that indeed, he had misunderstood that this book was to stay at school (the teacher admitted that a few children had been confused as she had told them their Reading Journals were to be left at school.  That part of the "homework" would be completed on arrival at school, to make sure they were retaining what they had read for homework).  Despite that, we stuck to our guns, and he lost his screen time that night as we promised.

I expect my child to behave at school.  I have always called him out on that, including this time.  Though he is bright, and always gets good grades, he has always struggled with attention and impulsivity.  He is 9, and had a great year last year with a strict, but patient teacher.

What upset dh and I was that she yelled at him (and most of the class from what other clasmates parents have told me) for writing an assignment in numbered sentences instead of paragraph form.  He said that she did not like him and thought he was stupid (his words not hers).  This is not the impression I want my child to have the first day.  Especially a child who has always loved school.  I ahve no problem with a teacher calling my child out on his behavior.[/quote]

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