pamperedalf
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Okay I recently took on a long term sub position for a third grade class the teacher has lost 70% use of her heart. Anyways my dir's son is in this class.
History on this child he is an only child (he knows how to manipulate, dad is more like a brother he tattles to mom & mom yells at dad), he was recently diagnosed w/ diabetes, he is a November baby that started kinder at age 4 and failing everything in school presently.
So my dir has come to me several times this year about his teacher, why are they saying he should be held back. So I have supported his classroom teacher and said I agree w/ his teacher (never anything she liked to hear and I finially said that we couldn't talk about it because we disagreed about it).
So now I am his teacher to the end of the year, and he is driving me absolutely crazy. He can't focus, he won't correct his work, and he is constantly testing his blood sugar (10-15 times in a school day). He does maybe 1/2 of the work that is assigned, and constantly begs to do it at home (I found out my dir makes copies of his work and does it herself and he copies her answers). Well he had a high blood sugar the other day and the school nurse came and got his work. Well he did his homework at school and not the classwork so I sent home 2 pages of math because he didn't do his classwork. Well he started crying saying it wasn't fair, my dad told me to do that.
Well at our meeting last night I walk in and my dir said well before we get started Amanda I need to talk to you about C's homework. He will not be doing the math you sent home because he did his homework in the office. He will not be penalized because he was making good use of his time and its illegal for you to assign extra HW because of his disability. I just wanted you to know he doesn't have to do it.
I am upset beyond belief. She addressed me in front of everyone else, I went to the meeting to network and get away from school. So today she sends a note w/ c and he brings it to me and announces to the class that my parents said I don't have to do the extra math you gave me w/ a big smile and hands me the note. She said that he was utilizing his time while having a diabetic emergency and that he won't be penalized w/ extra HW, and that it's completely unfair to assign this HW. The note proceeds to tell me that now that they now know the school rule about doing HW at home they will not allow C to do HW at school and if he does it in the future he will do the extra work. However he won't be penalized on doing HW at school since they didn't know.
So I haven't responded, and I don't think I should. I have decided to not attend anymore meetings until the end of the school year because I don't want to be put on the spot.
History on this child he is an only child (he knows how to manipulate, dad is more like a brother he tattles to mom & mom yells at dad), he was recently diagnosed w/ diabetes, he is a November baby that started kinder at age 4 and failing everything in school presently.
So my dir has come to me several times this year about his teacher, why are they saying he should be held back. So I have supported his classroom teacher and said I agree w/ his teacher (never anything she liked to hear and I finially said that we couldn't talk about it because we disagreed about it).
So now I am his teacher to the end of the year, and he is driving me absolutely crazy. He can't focus, he won't correct his work, and he is constantly testing his blood sugar (10-15 times in a school day). He does maybe 1/2 of the work that is assigned, and constantly begs to do it at home (I found out my dir makes copies of his work and does it herself and he copies her answers). Well he had a high blood sugar the other day and the school nurse came and got his work. Well he did his homework at school and not the classwork so I sent home 2 pages of math because he didn't do his classwork. Well he started crying saying it wasn't fair, my dad told me to do that.
Well at our meeting last night I walk in and my dir said well before we get started Amanda I need to talk to you about C's homework. He will not be doing the math you sent home because he did his homework in the office. He will not be penalized because he was making good use of his time and its illegal for you to assign extra HW because of his disability. I just wanted you to know he doesn't have to do it.
I am upset beyond belief. She addressed me in front of everyone else, I went to the meeting to network and get away from school. So today she sends a note w/ c and he brings it to me and announces to the class that my parents said I don't have to do the extra math you gave me w/ a big smile and hands me the note. She said that he was utilizing his time while having a diabetic emergency and that he won't be penalized w/ extra HW, and that it's completely unfair to assign this HW. The note proceeds to tell me that now that they now know the school rule about doing HW at home they will not allow C to do HW at school and if he does it in the future he will do the extra work. However he won't be penalized on doing HW at school since they didn't know.
So I haven't responded, and I don't think I should. I have decided to not attend anymore meetings until the end of the school year because I don't want to be put on the spot.