This is a LOT of drama for 5 weeks or so. And all you are asking is for an agenda and what work needed to be sent in. The time spent alone on those phone calls only in the end to still not have a list of what the students are working on. All of our teachers have agendas here, and if they don't if I ask them they will provide one. And if they don't the principal would make them.
Are you sure you want to deal with this lady for 8 more months?
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 6, 2020 12:44:06 GMT -5
There's just no. way. that you're the only person complaining. Absolutely none.
If you don't forward that email to the principal, sure to God someone else will. I'm 100% positive that even in our tiny little granola kumbaya school, if a teacher sent an email like that, a minimum of 50% of the class would forward it to the head of school. And if it was in our yuppie waspy public school....70% of the parents would forward it to the principal and the other 30% would print the email and bring it to the principals office.
And actually, maybe that's a reason to not do it? Let someone else carry the water on this one?
mustardseed2007 , oh yeah there is a high chance someone is going to respond back to the teacher negatively or forward to the principal. Part of me would just sit back and see how it plays out.
But I'm not sure this teacher is going to change. She seems to be the disorganized sort, which might work OK in person because they work on papers and would bring them home for parents to see theoretically. But that doesn't seem to translate well to e-learning.
campermom, DH and I have both talked to her. LONG conversations 45 mins to an hour. And both times, we think we've gotten on the same page, and both times.. we haven't.
Ohhh boy. I wonder if the principal will find out about her email from another parent. These things have a way to come back and conversations are had. Print it. Save it. This is going to be a long year. Again—I’m so sorry you’re going through this!
waverly, she did step up right before break. We had 5 assignments posted in the LMS for the week (which was.. almost the same amount we'd had in the first 6 weeks of school!) and she posted the agenda. We saw a REALLY good response from DD. So I thought we were sitting pretty and worked through the issues.
mustardseed2007, and I *know* I'm not.. because I know I didn't call the principal, but apparently someone did.
I honestly think the problem is two fold. She is not a planner type person. DD's teacher from last year described her as a teacher who is used to being able to fly by the seat of her pants. And that just doesn't work with distance learning. And also that she gets offended very easily, also confimred by her old teacher.
I would respond, "Given the unprofessionalism demonstrated in your email, I would like to take you up on your original offer to move my daughter to another class."