Re: School – Verbal Abuse by Teachers!

[Anonymous]

The high school that my son attended would hold parent teacher meetings in the cafeteria. The teachers would sit in a circle and the parents would wait in line for their turn to sit in the chair and speak to the child’s teacher. At one point, tired of a very very long wait I turned to the rest of the parents in line and said “if you don’t want to wait any longer I can just tell you that your child is not working to his potential but will do much better if he or she (yes I said he or she) would only apply him or her self.” I don’t know if they saw the humor in it but I think this is a stock answer from all teachers and too many parents (when I did reach the front the teacher told me the same thing and my son was making an A in his class). Meanwhile when I meant with his counselor she assumed that he was going through some terrible trauma at home because his straight A grades had dropped to Cs. I simply explained to her that he was fine but had choses to take all classes that semester that graded on homework (like English and History). Unfortunately I had not heard of ADD at the time.

As for me I still remember what it felt like to walk into my third grade teacher’s class in the morning and hear her usual greeting in front of the class “Wendy, Wendy why do you come so soon, you used to come at one o’clock but now you come at noon”.

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