Your thoughts please.

dktreesea

poet123 wrote: »

Really, you think that is the way to deal with this?

And what if the notes were in the teachers bag and the other child has snooped in there. What if the other child made it up?

If the OP wants and explanation she should (as it appears she intends) ask the teacher concerned and then escalate to the head if she is not satisfied.

As for not daring to criticise....have you read some of the vitriol directed at teachers on these boards? Yet, those very people entrust them with the care of their kids. If I held some of the more extreme views seen on here I wouldn't be so hypocritical as to use their services, I would put my money where my mouth was and home school.

While those of us who have children have all had quite different and unique experiences when it comes to teachers, in my own experience teachers aren't beyond bullying children, especially if they are constantly unwell. Try putting an asthmatic through school and you would know what I mean. Thank goodness for a council who were willing to investigate and moved the teacher in question on. Oh that more councils were quite that diligent. Then maybe, if the councils took their oversight responsibilities more seriously, parents would not be at the point of having to be concerned about teachers making inappropriate comments about their children.

If that is what the teacher is prepared to write down, what on earth is she saying behind that child's back? For sure there is no way on earth I would be accepting putting my child with a teacher whom I knew had concerns about his or her medical history and was prepared to write negative comments about the same AND to be careless with how she/he took care of those written comments. It's for the teacher to teach the child, not have opinions about their physical health. If they can't manage to safeguard their notes, notes they had no business to be making - "too many operations" Seriously? - why should they be entrusted with the care of our children?

As for home schooling, we shouldn't have to even be considering home schooling because of inadequate teachers. It's for the council to remove teachers who don't perform, not for us to remove our children in the face of poor performance.

dktreesea

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

My child's friend is lovely but I know children of this age aren't wildly reliable.

My daughters reading is very good, her maths on the other hand is terrible!!

I know the teachers mean well, at no point have I said otherwise.

Really? Someone who writes down that a child has too many operations and then is careless enough to leave his or her comments on a gym floor for whoever is passing by to pick up and read? Or who comments a child is dyslexic, without appropriate training to be able to confidently determine this and doesn't even acknowledge a duty of care to report his/her concerns to the parents in question? That's not my definition of a teacher who "means well". Incompetent and prejudiced comes to mind.

It's not okay to label children, especially singling them out in a negative way for circumstances completely beyond the child's control. These are people we entrust our children to and they owe both the child and us a duty of care. Parents who put up with that kind of thing aren't doing their children any favours.

lavandergirl_2

dktreesea wrote: »

Really? Someone who writes down that a child has too many operations and then is careless enough to leave his or her comments on a gym floor for whoever is passing by to pick up and read? Or who comments a child is dyslexic, without appropriate training to be able to confidently determine this and doesn't even acknowledge a duty of care to report his/her concerns to the parents in question? That's not my definition of a teacher who "means well". Incompetent and prejudiced comes to mind.

It's all third hand information- according to previous posts.

Deanied

dktreesea wrote: »

Really? Someone who writes down that a child has too many operations and then is careless enough to leave his or her comments on a gym floor for whoever is passing by to pick up and read? Or who comments a child is dyslexic, without appropriate training to be able to confidently determine this and doesn't even acknowledge a duty of care to report his/her concerns to the parents in question? That's not my definition of a teacher who "means well". Incompetent and prejudiced comes to mind.

It's not okay to label children, especially singling them out in a negative way for circumstances completely beyond the child's control. These are people we entrust our children to and they owe both the child and us a duty of care. Parents who put up with that kind of thing aren't doing their children any favours.

What a utterly ridiculous prejudice view! How is being dyslexic any more negative than being left handed? There are many successful people with dyslexia, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein and Mozart, to name a few. Parents with views like yours 'aren't doing their children any favours'. The teacher on the other hand is meeting their duty of care to the child, by informing the new teacher that the child has/may have dyslexic tendencies, therefore may need to have adaptation in class in order for the child to reach their full potential.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Deanied wrote: »

What a utterly ridiculous prejudice view!

I think they mean the bit about having too many operations...