Reply to Teacher called...for a third time

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Teacher called...for a third time"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how parents these days can twist any situation to place the blame on the teachers. Good luck in college![/quote]

Are college professors going to call parents about a college student’s behavior?  
[/quote]

Here is a pro tip: teachers DO NOT want to call you. If we are calling it is because your kid is doing something that ultimately negatively impacts their own academics and if it looks like your kid might fail because of it, we are required to contact you. If it gets to the point we are calling, when we do not want to have to do that, it means we have exhausted all the interventions, redirections, strategies available to us as the teacher and it’s now at a level where YOU, the parent, who has more available interventions and strategies to use with your child that we do not, need to be aware and taking action.

Don’t get annoyed that we’re calling you. Understand that it means we have absolutely done what we can on our end and it’s now time for you to pick up the baton. Or, failing that, at least you have been made aware so that when your kid ultimately does get that F, you can’t claim “nobody told me” and blame us for not telling you so you could help. [/quote]

+1. Is this public or private school? If it’s public and the teacher is calling you whatever they are telling you about his behavior is probably a thousand times worse. Not to mention that his behavior is disruptive to other students who actually want to learn. I have a teen and tween and they both have phones. I’ve never had an issue with behavior. In fact, I have had teachers reach out to me tell me that they enjoy having my kids in their classes. The difference? My kids would have lost all phone privileges for a month after the first phone call. They know very well that if their grades drop or if they cause any kind of disruption in the classroom the phones are gone. I use parental controls consistently. I monitor screen time consistently. I review grades consistently. I review homework consistently. Do your job and parent. [/quote]

You know, you can step down off your high horse.

I have a teen and a tween who have no issues with their phones in school too. One of them just scored in the 99th percentile on the HSPT.

I also have a teen who doesn’t have a phone and still gets in trouble for not paying attention at school.

You can’t take all of the credit or all of the blame for your teen’s behavior.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics