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I had a difficult child moment with difficult child's teacher
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 41062"><p>Good for you for standing up to this teacher. Never praising a kid for their effort and instead just always expecting more and more is just setting them up for failure. It IS possible to praise the effort AND let them know that they are aware of his potential without making him feel like a loser. If I were you, I'd send a certified letter addressing these issues, highlighting what is in the IEP and letting them know that if a teacher at the school ever again publicly discusses confidential information that you will be contacting an attorney. I don't know the laws in Canada, but they aren't allowed to do that here. Parents aren't even allowed to view the video footage from the high school security cameras because of student confidentiality. </p><p></p><p>difficult child's 3rd grade guidance counselor told me that, "[difficult child] doesn't have a problem, Heather. You do." This was after she had spent...hmmm, oh, that's right...ZERO time with difficult child. I knew, this being a small town and all, that her son had sold a deadly combination of OTC and illegal drugs to a high school student who died from them. While, I think that as a guidance counselor she does more harm than good (and not just from this one incident, but from years of history with her), I wondered if as a mother she carried a lot of guilt and was transferring some of that in some way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 41062"] Good for you for standing up to this teacher. Never praising a kid for their effort and instead just always expecting more and more is just setting them up for failure. It IS possible to praise the effort AND let them know that they are aware of his potential without making him feel like a loser. If I were you, I'd send a certified letter addressing these issues, highlighting what is in the IEP and letting them know that if a teacher at the school ever again publicly discusses confidential information that you will be contacting an attorney. I don't know the laws in Canada, but they aren't allowed to do that here. Parents aren't even allowed to view the video footage from the high school security cameras because of student confidentiality. difficult child's 3rd grade guidance counselor told me that, "[difficult child] doesn't have a problem, Heather. You do." This was after she had spent...hmmm, oh, that's right...ZERO time with difficult child. I knew, this being a small town and all, that her son had sold a deadly combination of OTC and illegal drugs to a high school student who died from them. While, I think that as a guidance counselor she does more harm than good (and not just from this one incident, but from years of history with her), I wondered if as a mother she carried a lot of guilt and was transferring some of that in some way. [/QUOTE]
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