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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you have the opportunity to change teachers? This isn't something normally offered...at all. Either you have a real, legitimate concern beyond what you've shared and admin knows it's a problem, in which case you should absolutely switch--or you have been such a bear that admin is giving in and trying to placate you and spread the crazy around.  I promise you if you switch for the latter reason, your child is being placed with an asterisk next to their name that says "tread lightly, parent is crazy".  I get a few of those every September complements of last year's teachers.[/quote]

OP here. My daughter has been slow to learn her sight words and has been told by the teacher that her knowing so little is "unacceptable" & it's doing a number on her self esteem. The sarcastic comments are daily and not targeted towards my child specifically but for a teacher who works with only 9 kids on a camera, it seems a litle extreme. She also uses videos often and does not do a lot of one on one work. Maybe I'll be labeled crazy parent but I doubt that. I've noticed how the teacher's demeanor changes with the kids the day the principal popped onto the screen to check in. She likely doesn't have the full picture of what this teacher expects and does not do on a daily basis. For example, she opens a program for them to do and then tells them to come back at a certain time. They are 5 & 6. Without a parent listening and keeping track, certain students are late. She will then ask why they were late in a not so nice tone. They're 5 and can't tell time, obviously. I am lucky enough to be around and observe, keep her on track, and do what I can. Other parents can't. I've noticed some kids aren't in the class anymore. We started with 14. We have 9-10 now. [/quote]

That is a different situation. A Teacher should not be telling a child in K that it is unacceptable that the kid doesn't know X,Y, or Z.I would talk to the Principal immediately. The K Teacher can suggest to the parents that the child needs to be practicing at home more, I know that this happens. It sounds like the Teacher is not great in this environment but might also be not great in person. If you have the chance tp change Teachers, I would change the Teacher and make sure the Principal knows why you are changing.

And she should not be commenting on bathroom breaks. DS's K and first grade had a bathroom in the classroom so the kids could go to the bathroom more easily. His Teacher did ask me if he was ok because he kept needing to poop and took 20 minutes to do so. It took 30 seconds of conversation to piece together that DS was taking long breaks during writing. She corrected that by letting him go to the bathroom but telling him there was no center time until he finished his writing, suddenly the 20 minute bathroom breaks were gone. He tried the same thing in first grade.[/quote]

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