"Most Excuses for Not Having Homework" Award Angers Student's Mother
I am sitting at my computer (obviously!) fuming, but FUMING about this. If I were a cartoon character, there would be smoke coming out of my ears.
I admit that I do not know whether the child actually had made frequent excuses for not having her homework. And, even if that is the case, perhaps her excuses were valid.
There is no valid excuse for her teacher's actions.
If I were the principal of that school, I would force that teacher to wear an old-fashioned dunce cap for a full day. Of course, she in turn would probably bring suit against me for excessive humiliation. And I in my own turn would ask her, "And just how do you think Cassandra felt?"
A final note: To be honest, I find it hard to be objective when it comes to a teacher humiliating a child in front of the class. It was done to me all too often.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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2 comments:
I can see that this award was intended as a joke. What isn't funny is that the girl had trouble completing h/w despite her after-school h/w club. Or that the mother was unaware of a problem.
This shows a serious lack of communication between teacher and parent. The poor child, caught in the middle, is forced to make up excuses. For that, the adults ought to be ashamed.
Look, teachers try to give awards to *each* child at the end of the year. And, so, some awards are made up. One year, my son got an award for "always having something to say on the subject" - maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Moonshadow, I was shamed in front of my classmates not once, but many times. This has, I admit, made
me very sensitive on this subject.
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