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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have the 8th graders discussed their concerns with the teacher directly?  Surely you want to instill a degree of active problem solving with your child. [/quote]

I am not sure you understand the situation.  The teacher is not the one who threatened to mess with their grades.  That was the Dean.  The Dean said you mess with her [the teacher's] stuff, [b]I'll[/b] mess with your grades, which clearly implies he has the power to do so.  Given that statement, any reassurance from the teacher, and I understand there may have been some, would not be sufficient to reassure.

I do not think that this is the appropriate time or situation in which to [b]"instill a degree of active problem solving"[b] with any child.  They already went through the experience, their parents already got the email from the Head of School invalidating their experience rather than apologizing for it, and none of them to the best of my knowledge, quite understandably, have any desire to confront the Dean, and I for one would not encourage my child to do it, now or ever.  I am not sure you are at the school.  The Dean is quite scary.  I admit perhaps he is supposed to be, but not only does he have an imposing physical presence, he has a very loud voice.  He is the one primarily who stands outside of the school in the morning directing traffic and raising his voice to the children "BASIS kids, 4 minutes."

The problem was created by the Dean (I do not believe for a minute that the teacher had any idea what he was going to do, and her subsequent behavior supports that), and dismissed by Cameron Louis, the Head of School.[/quote]

Whoah, back up a second there - the problem didn't start with the Dean, it was caused by the student who stole candy that was intended as a prop for a classroom exercise, with callous disregard of ruining the exercise for the whole class.  The Dean didn't just randomly swoop in out of nowhere and for no reason whatsoever.  That student demonstrated criminal behavior, demonstrated fundamental disrespect of fellow classmates, disrespect of the teacher and staff, and disrespect of the classroom and of the school.  It's behavior totally unacceptable coming from an 8th grader.  And yet you don't think that kind of awful behavior is an issue and instead all you have to complain about is the Dean, whose job it is to make sure that kind of behavior isn't repeated?[/quote]

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