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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here at an area independent school. Most parents are respectful and kind. They volunteer and will write an email once in a while to tell you how much their child loved a lesson or if the child needs a bit of help with a lesson. And the occasional Bully Parent? The same every time. It's a mom, babies her child or spoils the child, thinks she knows more about education than a professional educator, typically doesn't let dad know about the obsessive insane emails she writes to the teacher, will send out a long winded emotional email followed up by a call to an administrator then later will send a second email that is somewhat apologetic, doesn't ever want to hear that her child either needs academic or emotional/social support. Her child is perfect and so is she. [/quote]

That's am exact description of the parent I dealt with all year. It's better to communicate with a level-headed father than an unchecked mother who has a lot of time on her hands, a lot of money to throw around, an unchecked emotional state and a refusal to admit or hear that her kid needs help. If we tell you your child needs help its not to hurt your kid it's to HELP your kid![/quote]

I used to teach ok the area and this is SO true. [/quote]

Oh, I've dealt with some nutty fathers over the years, believe me.  One of the highlights was when a father who was a lawyer came in to a parent-teacher conference armed with my most recent test, and proceeded to go through it line by line to tell me how each question wasn't properly worded, was confusing, was ambiguous…  yeah, that was a fun one.  [/quote]

Are your tests poorly worded,  confusing, ambiguous, and difficult to decipher?[/quote]

Okay, I'll play along (I'm not the teacher who wrote this post, btw.)
If the test is written as badly as the father perceives it to be, I would expect that it would be confusing to ANYONE who read it, not just his kid. That means that the majority of the class should have done poorly on the test. Before I went in guns blazing, I'd try to feel my kid out and see if other kids were having the same problems.
I'd also be looking at the previous work my kid has done and what kind of grades he's received. Did this failing test grade come out of the blue, or were their warning signs in the less-than-great grades my kid was bringing home? Parent-teacher conferences are usually happening after about 6 weeks of school. If there had been issues/concerns, I would have contacted the teacher asap, not wait until I realized that we were nearing the end of the quarter and saw my kid was going to get a grade that might negatively impact the GPA.
Has my kid been telling me he finds the wording of the tests confusing, or am I just looking for a way I can negotiate a retest for my kid who bombed the first test due to lack of studying?
These are all things I would be asking/exploring before I went to Defcon 1 on the teacher.
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