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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DOp here I volunteer in the classroom so I saw her lose her shit and have a tantrum over silly little things like talking during a fire drill or getting out of line walking from recess. And I am not talking About raising her voice I am talking a full melt down.  The parents who gasp all had boys in her class years prior and their experience has been that admin believes she is great and loves kids tremendously.  There are rumors that she will single out a "victim" once a year and try to make that child's life difficult. [b][b]The reason I am concerned is that she sent me an email that my son did xyz at a pajamas day party.  But my son was not in school that day.  So she then said that he did it another day.  Just makes no sense.[/b][/b]  [/quote]

Why aren't we talking about this part?  This is very odd to me.

That said my DS has gotten in trouble for things he hasn't done before.  What I tell him is that if he weren't often talking when he wasn't supposed to be the teacher wouldn't assume every out of turn whisper was him.
So while it is unfair, he needed to work on being quite and it has helped.  Now the teacher has never said anything to me about it so I guess it is not that bad but the DS is his own worst enemy and rats himself out  :-)

Just tell the teacher that if the behavior is so bad that she needs to email about it she needs to email you the day it happens.  Kids have short memories so if he really is misbehaving it needs to be addressed immediately.
Now if she emails you on a day when your DS is out you will know if she is really just nuts or if she made a mistake.  
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OK, I"ll talk about that part.  It sounds as if the teacher, like most teachers, has a huge amount of work to do and honestly confused the day when she wrote the email to the mother.  She probably had many other emails to do in a short amount of time.  It happens.  [b]Last month I sent in email in which I accidentally referred to the student by the wrong NAME.  This doesn't make me crazy or a horrible teacher: it just means that I had to write about 20 emails to 20 different people, and had a very short break period in which to do so.  
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I think you need to be very careful about the "rumors", etc. in cases like this.  Your child will pick up on your attitude, and it will make it more difficult to respect his teacher at school, thus limiting his learning and causing him to feel that it is OK to misbehave because Mom will take his side and blame the teacher no matter what. [/quote]

So PP, you are a teacher and you are on DCUM reading and responding to posts at 3 pm.  I am glad you are not my kids' teacher, and by the way, if you are so busy that you don't have time for emails, why are you posting on DCUM while you are at school?[/quote]

Yes, I'm the PP and a teacher.  I live in a different time zone.  I am only on DCUM in the evenings on weeknights, my time: I agree that it would be totally inappropriate for me to be posting from school, which I've never done![/quote]

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