10 Things NOT To Say To Your Child's Teacher

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Nukeman! let's hear some of the crude you said to my little brothers principle!

(This is gonna be good....)

[Shadow]

Prior to my daughter being in a charter school (which she loves)...she refused to attend her spanish class at her old high school...told me she dropped it and proceeded to ditch every day for two weeks straight.

I called the school...was told by the asst princpal that his hands were tied and that he could not send her to detention until her teacher reported 5 unexcused absenses in her class. Pretty sad when you have to freaken bug the teacher to report ditching so you can get your own kid sent to detention BTW. So that was my big question...

"What does it take to get you to report students for ditching class...school policy is 5 days = detention. It's been two weeks"..

Her response was a total whine fest...starting with..."you just don't understand how hard it is keeping track of all these kids" " we are soooo short handed with budget cuts" yadda yadda yadda.

Me..".too bad...that's what you are paid to do".

[gabosaurus]

Shadow, what kind of high school do your kids go to?
My high school was a closed campus. You could ditch class, but where you could go was a problem. Because faculty and staff roamed the hallways and district police patrolled the outside.
Instructors had to submit attendance reports for every class.
In our district's alternative school, the students wear a specific type of ID badge. If they try to leave campus, an alarm goes off.

[Shadow]

Shadow, what kind of high school do your kids go to?
My high school was a closed campus. You could ditch class, but where you could go was a problem. Because faculty and staff roamed the hallways and district police patrolled the outside.
Instructors had to submit attendance reports for every class.
In our district's alternative school, the students wear a specific type of ID badge. If they try to leave campus, an alarm goes off.

She now attends a charter school which is really strict...but she loves it so far, and seems to like all of her classes,teachers and her advisor. Prior...she was just attending a regular High school that was part of APS. Closed campus...but it was obviously not enforced very well. Mommy had to track her butt down and report her for detention multiple times. It became a second job...I finally gave up because the school would not work with me to get her on an academic plan. She ended up being reclassified as a freshman and later getting accepted at a charter school with an accelerated program...where she can catch up on credits she lost last year.

Probably better for her in the long run anyway. So, it seems to have worked out for the best.

[Kathianne]

Shadow, what kind of high school do your kids go to?
My high school was a closed campus. You could ditch class, but where you could go was a problem. Because faculty and staff roamed the hallways and district police patrolled the outside.
Instructors had to submit attendance reports for every class.
In our district's alternative school, the students wear a specific type of ID badge. If they try to leave campus, an alarm goes off.

Indeed that's the case now in every high school I'm at. Teachers are assigned hall duties, along with pretty extensive security teams. Bathrooms are checked, locker rooms are actually manned or ladied if you like. Door exits are monitored.

In another thread I explained about when I was in high school and there were near 5k kids for 1800 capacity school. They did everything but kick kids out the doors. Homework didn't count, only tests and quizzes. Parents weren't notified regarding attendance for months. It's not like that today.