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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 325487" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Susie, I tihnk you've got tis teacher's response spot-on.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry if I gave the impression that you are likely to be moving on too impatiently or 'shopping around', Terry. I was commenting on the sort of attitudes that teachers like this can have, from either past experience of othr parents or form talking to other teachers. You do get some teachers who have preconcieved prejudices before you ever begin to deal with them.</p><p></p><p>I'm surprised that your private schools aren't also bound by IEP rules. Ours are. And ours can also access government funding. In fact, Aussie private schools often get more goverment funding per capita than public schools. Go figure. It's causing a lot of outrage.</p><p></p><p>I agree, this kid heard Y when teacher said X. The impotant thing is to try to explain to whoever is going to be this child's tea her, that this is a problem. Instrucitons need to be as clear as possible, no ambiguity, no sarcasm. In writing, for preference. At least, for difficult child.</p><p></p><p>and to attack difficult child or you for the message - just plain wrong. The first step, even if you had left a very insulting message making remarks like, "your grandmother wears army boots," she should have come to you and said, "We need to talk about this," and not immediatly weighed in.</p><p></p><p>methinks she protesteth too much. In other words - she has her own strong ideas and they are indeed so strong, that to consider anything else is to risk accepting she may have made a mistake, and that would be unthinkable. Much easier to stick to her guns and insist the kid is beihg deliberately insuordinate, than to accept she has got him badly wrong and is doing damage. Besides, if she's picked up the vibe that you're planning to move on, then she has even less need to emotionally invest in helping this kid (who I gather the school would love to see the back of).</p><p></p><p>Sometimes private is not better.</p><p></p><p>My schooling - I spent some time in my high school years attending a very exclusive girls only school. While it was a public school, in many ways it ran like a private school. But despite the higher standard academically as well as socially, I did badly trhere. Very badly. I was bullied by kids (beaten up regularly) and bullied badly by a couple of teachers.</p><p></p><p>Then my parents moved to a ghetto suburb and I enrolled in the local co-ed (very rough, low standard) school. I did brilliantly there. There were still a couple of teachers who were difficult and some kids who were bullies, but no physical abuse happened to me there. and as for support - perhaps because it was a poorer area with more needy kids, there was more compassion in general, through the school.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 325487, member: 1991"] Susie, I tihnk you've got tis teacher's response spot-on. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that you are likely to be moving on too impatiently or 'shopping around', Terry. I was commenting on the sort of attitudes that teachers like this can have, from either past experience of othr parents or form talking to other teachers. You do get some teachers who have preconcieved prejudices before you ever begin to deal with them. I'm surprised that your private schools aren't also bound by IEP rules. Ours are. And ours can also access government funding. In fact, Aussie private schools often get more goverment funding per capita than public schools. Go figure. It's causing a lot of outrage. I agree, this kid heard Y when teacher said X. The impotant thing is to try to explain to whoever is going to be this child's tea her, that this is a problem. Instrucitons need to be as clear as possible, no ambiguity, no sarcasm. In writing, for preference. At least, for difficult child. and to attack difficult child or you for the message - just plain wrong. The first step, even if you had left a very insulting message making remarks like, "your grandmother wears army boots," she should have come to you and said, "We need to talk about this," and not immediatly weighed in. methinks she protesteth too much. In other words - she has her own strong ideas and they are indeed so strong, that to consider anything else is to risk accepting she may have made a mistake, and that would be unthinkable. Much easier to stick to her guns and insist the kid is beihg deliberately insuordinate, than to accept she has got him badly wrong and is doing damage. Besides, if she's picked up the vibe that you're planning to move on, then she has even less need to emotionally invest in helping this kid (who I gather the school would love to see the back of). Sometimes private is not better. My schooling - I spent some time in my high school years attending a very exclusive girls only school. While it was a public school, in many ways it ran like a private school. But despite the higher standard academically as well as socially, I did badly trhere. Very badly. I was bullied by kids (beaten up regularly) and bullied badly by a couple of teachers. Then my parents moved to a ghetto suburb and I enrolled in the local co-ed (very rough, low standard) school. I did brilliantly there. There were still a couple of teachers who were difficult and some kids who were bullies, but no physical abuse happened to me there. and as for support - perhaps because it was a poorer area with more needy kids, there was more compassion in general, through the school. Marg [/QUOTE]
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