Thursday, December 17, 2009

promt 5

In this prompt it says what issues I may have collaborating with the parents of the children in the classroom if I was the teacher. I have talked to my teacher about the parents of the student I tutor. And she has a difficult time talking and almost getting along with the parents. Every time I asked it was almost like the parents were giving an excuse of why their child was acting up in class. With one student, the parent actually said he had A.D.D., but the school hasn’t been notified or does he have any past history my teacher told me. Parents can be really stubborn sometimes. It’s almost like their child is a golden child: they can’t do anything wrong. But some of these kids in my class are really bad. Last week a fight literally broke out in class. But not because there was a feud or anything, but because they just wanted to. It was like jerry springer right in front of me. It’s almost clear that these parents do not discipline their kids because they don’t listen and honestly just in class to annoy and disrupt: And when the parents think that the child is a perfect little peach, while at school he’s kicking other students, or in one instance one kid brought a BROKEN BOTTLE into class to hurt someone. I draw the line there. THESE ARE THRID GRADERS PEOPLE. This would not have happen 10 or 15 years ago. People would have honestly gotten kicked out of school. I didn’t ask about what happened when that students parents were called in, I thought that would be a little intrusive. But I do know, it happened early in the week and he was back in school by Friday.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Matt,

    Your description of parents paints them all with a broad brush. While some parents might be unresponsive to their child's behavior, most are not. Rather than placing blame, ask yourself what is going wrong in this system.

    Continue to think on these things,
    Dr. August

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