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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 242047" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Often it's not teachers not caring, it's teachers who don't understand and just don't seem to 'get it'. difficult child 3's English teacher form last year - I'm still not sure if she was someone who relaly cared but was trying to show exactly whatGFG3 shouldbe doing in order to get through the next stage of his eduction, or if she simply didn't get it, that he really couldn't do what she wanted him to do. I think the latter, because she would be talking to him and would suddenly break off and say, "YOu do understand me, don't you? I cn see by that little smile of yours. I don't buy this 'dumb' act. So now we understand one another, I want you to do this for me. Alright?"</p><p>She was pleasant about it, but he would nod and smile but still not fully get it. Then when he put in a mammoth effort to please her, he would get his work back from her marked very strictly because he ahd failed to fully explain the motives and emotions of the characters, for example. When I asked her at a Lerning Team meeting, her answer was, "he's a really bright kid, this is the standard he must work at to get past his next exams, I know he can do this."</p><p></p><p>She really does care, but we just couldn't come to an agreement. However, because she WAS so pushy, it made it possible for me to yell for help from the Special Education staff and the Year Advisor, probably sooner than we would have otherwise.</p><p></p><p>So never discount the benefit from even a difficult, apparently bullying teacher, because they can give you the clear understanding that there is a problem and it needs mroe than the teacher or the parent can provide.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 242047, member: 1991"] Often it's not teachers not caring, it's teachers who don't understand and just don't seem to 'get it'. difficult child 3's English teacher form last year - I'm still not sure if she was someone who relaly cared but was trying to show exactly whatGFG3 shouldbe doing in order to get through the next stage of his eduction, or if she simply didn't get it, that he really couldn't do what she wanted him to do. I think the latter, because she would be talking to him and would suddenly break off and say, "YOu do understand me, don't you? I cn see by that little smile of yours. I don't buy this 'dumb' act. So now we understand one another, I want you to do this for me. Alright?" She was pleasant about it, but he would nod and smile but still not fully get it. Then when he put in a mammoth effort to please her, he would get his work back from her marked very strictly because he ahd failed to fully explain the motives and emotions of the characters, for example. When I asked her at a Lerning Team meeting, her answer was, "he's a really bright kid, this is the standard he must work at to get past his next exams, I know he can do this." She really does care, but we just couldn't come to an agreement. However, because she WAS so pushy, it made it possible for me to yell for help from the Special Education staff and the Year Advisor, probably sooner than we would have otherwise. So never discount the benefit from even a difficult, apparently bullying teacher, because they can give you the clear understanding that there is a problem and it needs mroe than the teacher or the parent can provide. Marg [/QUOTE]
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