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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former middle school teacher, our admin asked us to do similar (photo collage and brief background about ourselves--our families, hobbies, interests) for BTS night. I don't think anyone shared more than a few pictures or bits of info about themselves as parents filtered in and out. This is a major part of that teacher's background and life story. It is important to her. It IS her family. I'm a pretty private person so I probably wouldn't share those details w/ my students and their parents but it's totally fine that she chose to do so. There is nothing inappropriate about her sharing a picture of her child who died and a few brief words about her child and how difficult child loss has been. That's the point of this little presentation/demonstration: to get to know your kid's teacher and what's important to them and a little about their life story. If that makes you uncomfortable, you are a jerk.

Also, it's not up to you to decide how long or in which way she grieves her child.

I will say if it's something that she brings up often during class, that's inappropriate. If she truly were to lean on her students for support, that's inappropriate. If this somehow interferes with her teaching or your child's learning, that's inappropriate. But it doesn't sound like any of those things are true. It sounds like she simply mentioned it as she's getting to know students and their parents. Her saying the students "have been supportive" likely just means that when she told them about her daughter, they expressed sympathy/condolences briefly, which is actually a great thing that the students learn to do that at a young age...to realize that their teachers are human, to have compassion for others, to think about how difficult it must be to go through an experience like that and still go on w/ life and get up every day to teach them. Those are good things for 7th graders to learn.[/quote]

-Fellow former teacher here -- very well said PP. [/quote]

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