No wonder my kid was confused...LOL

You think you did. I think I figured it out, too, but how can we be sure?

After reading it a few times, and being familiar with my daughter's usual homework, I gave her some instructions that I assumed were what he meant. I shouldn't have to do that, though. I shouldn't have to translate the homework. And we're native speakers! Some kids in her class are the only English speakers in their home. They can't ask an adult to help them decypher his strange ramblings.

It's even worse because this teacher is such an unforgiving hard-ass when other people goof up. Eight-year-old people. He'll never admit that he made a mistake, though. When my daughter tried to get him to clarify the instructions, he accused her of not reading them. A classier teacher could have read it and laughed about it and said, "Kids, can you help me fix this sentence? I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that, but here's what I meant." That way they see a graceful way to handle a mistake, they learn how to fix dangling modifiers, and they go home understanding what he expects them to do. Instead, he just told her that if she'd read it, she'd understand it, and he blew her off.

 

LOL
I have tried to help them with some of their more horrible attempts at Spanish translation. After all, a squiggle is the only difference between wishing everyone a happy new year or a happy new anus, you know? But they don't want my help. Imbeciles!

The school newsletter is so sad. You can see where they used spell check, but then didn't make sure that it used the right word. Sigh. And it always tells you what happened 2 months ago.

Oh, well.

Honestly, I'm a little worried about the teacher who wrote that. He seems to be making a lot of weird mistakes lately. And then refusing to admit that they're happening. I'm going to feel awful if it turns out that he has some kind of neurological problem developing or something.

 

ooooo! i'm gonna do that!!

 

Well....it's Monday and the teacher who wrote those 'mysterious' instructions completely forgot to write homework instructions for the kids at all tonight. My daughter's just supposed to remember what to do. Thank goodness she does.

Also...I got a letter today that said that my 6-year-old daughter is truant and that I might be prosecuted. The letter said that I should call the principal. So I did.

Ah, it's funny. They told me maybe it's a computer glitch, er something. We all know that my kids don't have any unexcused absences, they said. The lady in the office laughed out loud when I told her who was accused of truancy. My little 6-year-old?

She said it was a computer error, but I think she was just covering the new lady's ass.

That, or someone spiked the coffee pot over there.

What will tomorrow bring?

 

Levi,

I'd say it's time to start keeping a notebook.

Don't tell the teacher or the school, just keep complete records of everything. Dates, times, phone conversations, originals or copies of every piece of paper.

You can't change anything without evidence. Without a written record, it's one angry parent's word against their own teachers and administration. After a while, you can go to the school board with your evidence. Make sure you've got a someone up the ladder who is reasonable before you lay it all out. This is called playing hardball, but it sounds like it might be necessary here.

 

that's some wierd shit right there.

 

I get welfare for my kids because I'm disabled. It occured to me that if they don't fix this, our benefits could be affected. So I went to the school office this morning and told them that I was concerned about that. I said that it's one thing to tell me that everything has been taken care of, but that the school district's address is on the header of the letter they sent me, and I am concerned. I am worried that if my daughter's records aren't corrected, this could cause some real problems.


The secretary took my letter, folded it, and put it under her binder. I got it back. She smiled and once again explained that it's a computer error and all is well. I think 'Computer Error' must be the new lady's nickname or something.

A friend of mine was in the office this morning and I waited outside for her. I showed her the letter and told her about the attendance lady saying that my kid was absent on Presidents' Day and that my kids weren't in school the other day when they were, and claiming that my daughter's last absence was unexcused, when I did call them first thing that morning to tell them she was sick.

My friend didn't get any weird Presidents' Day calls or anything! And her daughter and mine are in the same class! She said she thinks they're fucking with me!

I do keep all this stuff. This school has messed with me over and over again. My older kid has very well controlled epilepsy and they tried to tell us before that she couldn't go on field trips! I told them that that's against the law, Assholes, yes she can. Her teacher that year, in kindergarten, begged me, in front of my daughter, to call her at home over the weekend if I decided to transfer her to someone else's class because she was so freaked out about the epilepsy. How was my kid supposed to feel?

Then the school said they didn't want me making a presentation about epilepsy to her teachers, they didn't want first-aid materials from the Epilepsy Foundation of America in the classroom and the teachers' lounge (the kind of stuff you hang near the phone to look at in an emergency), but they did need her medical records for an emergency. I told them that in an emergency, don't read her medical records, call 911!!! (A kid in our little school district died in a swimming pool at school because he had a seizure and the teachers called the school and the kid's parents, while he convulsed in the water, rather than calling 911!) I told them that I would have her doctor call them, but no, they absolutely could not have access to her medical records.

It just goes on and on. These people are such....morons!

The principal of this school actually told me that he doesn't believe in dyslexia!!! Idiot!

So...I do keep track, because these people are strange.

 

I hate school work books.
They all have so many mistakes in them, I know I've found some myself

 

Are there other public schools within reasonable driving distance from your house? This school sounds really fucked up and maybe you should consider transferring your kids to another one.

 

I can't drive because I have epilepsy. The public transportation here is virtually nonexistent. The other schools around here suck as well. Even the alternative schools around here are really lousy. I have thoroughly scoped it out.


I am hoping to move this summer to a larger town/city where, hopefully, the teachers aren't hired because they know a secret handshake and belong to the same church, but because they have a teaching degree.

I asked another parent today if he's had problems with the school making mistakes with his kids' attendance and he said NEVER.