Anonymous
10/25/2017 07:26
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, I often wonder why teachers don't send an email when they are going to be out sick, on jury duty etc. Maybe an auto emailed response. Am I being over bearing or would it be helpful? I'm just trying to be able to help DD prepare for a day with a sub.
Are you kidding me?
Your snowflake needs to prepare for a sub?
You parents are wackadoos. TRULY wackadoos!
Not really. Many subs have less control of the classroom than the regular teacher. There is a long on ramp each fall to establish a functioning classroom of kids. Saying subs equal the regular teacher renders all that early process less meaningful. Some kids do benefit from knowing the teacher will be absent who best knows who gets wound up at noon or who bullies, etc. Yes parents can help in advance with at home discussions of thevday ahead. Absences are a fact known to the kids at 9 a.m. sharing the info earlier at home would help.
You believe that a parent saying “You will have a sub. Follow the expectations.” will result in the child hearing anything past “You will have a sub.”
The majority of parents couldn’t tell you what my routines are although they were clearly described in the syllabus and reviewed on BTSN. I know this because if emails I get full of confusion about what the child should do in a specific situation.
Anonymous
10/24/2017 09:13
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, I often wonder why teachers don't send an email when they are going to be out sick, on jury duty etc. Maybe an auto emailed response. Am I being over bearing or would it be helpful? I'm just trying to be able to help DD prepare for a day with a sub.
Are you kidding me?
Your snowflake needs to prepare for a sub?
You parents are wackadoos. TRULY wackadoos!
Not really. Many subs have less control of the classroom than the regular teacher. There is a long on ramp each fall to establish a functioning classroom of kids. Saying subs equal the regular teacher renders all that early process less meaningful. Some kids do benefit from knowing the teacher will be absent who best knows who gets wound up at noon or who bullies, etc. Yes parents can help in advance with at home discussions of thevday ahead. Absences are a fact known to the kids at 9 a.m. sharing the info earlier at home would help.
Anonymous
10/23/2017 08:03
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, I often wonder why teachers don't send an email when they are going to be out sick, on jury duty etc. Maybe an auto emailed response. Am I being over bearing or would it be helpful? I'm just trying to be able to help DD prepare for a day with a sub.
Are you kidding me?
Your snowflake needs to prepare for a sub?
You parents are wackadoos. TRULY wackadoos!
I hope you aren’t a novice teacher because you ain’t seen nothing yet.
When I taught sixth graders, a mom emailed all the teachers (including two males) to ask them to remind her DD to change her sanitary pad. The poor girl was having her first cycle. Of course, we all refused, but that girl didn’t look any of us in the eye for weeks.
Print the e-mail, fold it, and hand to student. LOL
Anonymous
10/23/2017 06:49
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, I often wonder why teachers don't send an email when they are going to be out sick, on jury duty etc. Maybe an auto emailed response. Am I being over bearing or would it be helpful? I'm just trying to be able to help DD prepare for a day with a sub.
Are you kidding me?
Your snowflake needs to prepare for a sub?
You parents are wackadoos. TRULY wackadoos!
I hope you aren’t a novice teacher because you ain’t seen nothing yet.
When I taught sixth graders, a mom emailed all the teachers (including two males) to ask them to remind her DD to change her sanitary pad. The poor girl was having her first cycle. Of course, we all refused, but that girl didn’t look any of us in the eye for weeks.
Anonymous
10/22/2017 16:25
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:OP here, I often wonder why teachers don't send an email when they are going to be out sick, on jury duty etc. Maybe an auto emailed response. Am I being over bearing or would it be helpful? I'm just trying to be able to help DD prepare for a day with a sub.
Are you kidding me?
Your snowflake needs to prepare for a sub?
You parents are wackadoos. TRULY wackadoos!
Anonymous
10/20/2017 20:33
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:This would let the parents add up teacher absences. No no no. We do that for the kids, doesnt apply to adults.
Why would a parent need an email to know whether or not their k-12 child had a sub? The kid would likely say that as soon as the parent asks ”How was school?”
Also, subs aren’t just for teacher absences. Subs cover classes while teachers are in the building for meetings, trainings, SIP or SLO planning, or proctoring tests. Once my coworker had a sub for three days while she sorted through materials impacted by a bathroom that flooded overhead.
Anonymous
10/19/2017 17:03
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
In K, my daughter had trouble adjusting to subs (she has anxiety) and she often had "bad days" (her words) when she had subs. I would still never expect a teacher to announce absences. She's over it now and I believe it's in part to facing things that are uncomfortable to her.
Anonymous
10/19/2017 16:58
Subject: Re:Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
No. I assume when you are out you either tell your immediate boss or your immediate coworkers. Do you tell all of your clients or people outside of that too? Probably not.
Anonymous
10/19/2017 16:54
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Please do NOT tell my kids they will have a sub the next day!
Anonymous
10/19/2017 08:37
Subject: Should teachers send an email when they are going to be out?
Anonymous wrote:Helocopter partent. It happens. I have three kids in public schools. When the first one was in 2nd grade my kid had a bad teacher and we requested a conference. She insisted I attend too not just my wife.
Well sitting in my suit I got into of course telling her how to do her job. Course she was pissed but then she laid down her Trump card. She said if you want to discuss how I do my job further my husband gets home at 7pm he would love for you to come over and man to man work this out.
Touché
Huh?