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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think this note was shaming, unless the child is not capable of neater work.  The teacher asks a great question: Are you proud of this? To me, that's the standard for a good student, for good study skills and habits. OP, was your child proud of this? Of course not. Really folks, the world is a tough place, let's not coddle a child who doesn't do his/her best work and gets called out for it.[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

This hits home for me because my child has problems with handwriting (and was in OT for several years).  We've had something very similar happen.  The teacher was not the homeroom teacher and I guess didn't know that DC physically was not capable of doing it neater.  It's very disheartening for a child that actually is doing his/her best.  If a teacher is going to do this s/he better be damn sure the child doesn't have a handwriting issue.

In our case, what made it worse was that even after the teacher was made aware of DC's issues, she kept commenting about handwriting.  Very frustrating![/quote]

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