JabberJuls

If you have a student that isn’t doing very well as far as keeping decent school grades, beware the Teacher’s have the right and cunning abilitiy to manipulate the school’s understood rules and can fail your child, without informing you promptly of progressive behavior or schoolwork incompletion. There is Currently nothing you can do about it.

Luke was having difficulty in 3 subjects. We contacted the teachers to work with them towards a plan to help Luke get where he needs to be and asked for their help to coordinate homework, tutoring, and informing us of behavior concerns as it happens. Well, 1 teacher is awesome and has been communicating by email with me keeping me informed (Ms. Palmer), Mr. Mincks did come to an agreement with Luke and the VP, which the VP informed us of this and seems to be doing better in that class.

The 3rd teacher, (Ms. A. Morrow) had led me to believe the only way I can findout homework assignments is by her website (which she hasn’t kept current) and contact her by email for behavior concerns. Our phone conversations and emails finally led to an agreement that we’d work together and keep each other informed of the progression of any problems in class. Well, 3-weeks go by…assuming everything is doing well and we get 3-referrals that we were never informed about and now Luke has a Failing Grade in the Class with no hopes of attempting to make it right. What happened? I thought communication was open and there was a concern for this student’s success.

Well, the school addresses there was a lack of communication, oh well he’ll have to just try to move forward. Wait a minute…Here I am a parent, presenting AHEAD OF TIME a critical concern and need to help organize my sonand believing I had the teacher’s cooperation to do this. Why am I as a Parent being disregarded in the intervention process? and taken out of the Loop of intervention strategies? Why did the Teacher drop the ball and not inform me of the following problems? Better yet, when it became a Referral Why didn’t the VP call us to inform us of the Referral. The School feels they don’t have to contact Parents or keep Parents informed after 1 contact has taken place. What is wrong with that picture? Parents need to be informed about every referral that causes an effect in failing a class.

Luke was starting over, I was supposed to be able to have access to the Teacher’s homework schedule by website, Teacher agreed to communicate by email if any behavior issues took place further, so we could guide Luke. I was thrilled and happy to finally get some help. None of that happened. Now the teacher claims she didn’t feel she had to notify me of any problems. I’m baffled why even the VP didn’t call us when he dealt with the Referral. Oh….the VP didn’t even get the referrals until all 3 were in his office..3-weeks later. How convenient…that’s 3-weeks later when nothing can now be done to provide intervention for Luke to minimally succeed.

Well, this teacher apparently didn’t want to teach Luke any longer, she found 3 excuses to get rid of him by referrals before anyone could do anything about it, and doesn’t have to be responsible for not communicating with me–The Parent trying to help prevent it from going this way. Sounds like a perfect system for a teacher that isn’t willing to work with parents or care about difficult student’s success.
It’s outright wrong and needs to be stopped.

There needs to be prompt Parent Notification and Accountability/Reprimand for teachers or VP that don’t do that. They can write out a referral…maybe have the VP secretary or a specified clerical person can call the Parent as a courteous notification. That’s something! If I was notified, then I could’ve contacted the teacher to see what’s happening and see if there is anything I can do from my end. The School’s excuse is they have so many students and can’t possibly call the parents. My question is, how many Parents actually try to work with the teacher to help their child get on track?I could almost bet you hardly any. So here I am…1 parent that actually is trying to make a difference out of their… let’s say 10-15 problems a day… Wouldn’t you think at least call that one? I believe most teachers would. Well not Ms. Morrow, Luke wasn’t worth her time or effort to try to teach. He’s an F student to her so oh well.

I’m starting to believe LUKE is the student that can be used to make a true evaluation of a Teacher. If he succeeds in their class, they’re an awesome teacher. If he fails their class, they really shouldn’t be a teacher.

Just beware…This isn’t the 1st time a teacher has used this process to Fail a student and not held accountable for it.

I’ve had to put a letter in place at the School Site requiring them to have a Parent Present the moment any discipline is to be addressed or to take place by any school staff (teachers, VP, Principals, etc.) We’ll see if they honor that. I’ve also contacted the Asst. Superintendant’s office regarding Parent Communication with the School. We’ll see what happens. I’ll keep you updated.

Hopefully you’re a lucky parent and has sweet children that are perfectly well mannered, not immature at all, aren’t social or creative, or ever does anything wrong at all. Good luck to parent’s of Boys! There is no chance to survive if you are below their average standards.