This is totally just a vent. DS is happy at school; I'm not about to rock the boat over these, relatively minor, things.
1. More than 24 hours notice that you want me to send a pear into school with my child would be nice.
2. Don't tell all the kids that everyone has to take a bath every night because you don't want "stinky" kids in your classroom. My kid has excezma. Baths make it worse. He is 6; he does not need a bath every night.
3. Do not tell my kid that the black marker is ugly. Now he won't use it at home.
4. Do not tell my kid to bring a can of food into school without sending a note to me. I have no idea what's going on and he's upset because I can't tell if I am really supposed to do this or not.
5. Do not tell all the kids over and over that you don't want sand in your classroom. Now my kid is paranoid every morning about whether he has sand on his shoes. It's kindergarten. Deal with a little sand.
6. Could you ask for volunteers to provide the ingredients for cooking projects? I don't mind at all and would gladly send in more than our "share" but I can't stop worrying about the families who just may not have it in their budgets to send in "three cans of swanson's chicken broth" on a couple of days notice.
7. When you assign my kid to trace his hand and cut it out 16 times, do not hold up the ONE sample DH did for him (after watching DS do the first few and having trouble explaining that DS needed to trace between his fingers) and tell him that his parents shouldn't do his homework for him. He's in kindergarten. It's the first bleeping thing we've done for him all year and DH only did it to show DS how. After that DS' work product improved a ton, so it was a very effective teaching method. If you're going to send homework home and expect the parents to sign off on it, you need to expect that we're going to try to teach DS how to do it.
Ok, I feel better now. Back to your regularly scheduled threads. Oh, and feel free to add your vents here too!
Catherine
1. More than 24 hours notice that you want me to send a pear into school with my child would be nice.
2. Don't tell all the kids that everyone has to take a bath every night because you don't want "stinky" kids in your classroom. My kid has excezma. Baths make it worse. He is 6; he does not need a bath every night.
3. Do not tell my kid that the black marker is ugly. Now he won't use it at home.
4. Do not tell my kid to bring a can of food into school without sending a note to me. I have no idea what's going on and he's upset because I can't tell if I am really supposed to do this or not.
5. Do not tell all the kids over and over that you don't want sand in your classroom. Now my kid is paranoid every morning about whether he has sand on his shoes. It's kindergarten. Deal with a little sand.
6. Could you ask for volunteers to provide the ingredients for cooking projects? I don't mind at all and would gladly send in more than our "share" but I can't stop worrying about the families who just may not have it in their budgets to send in "three cans of swanson's chicken broth" on a couple of days notice.
7. When you assign my kid to trace his hand and cut it out 16 times, do not hold up the ONE sample DH did for him (after watching DS do the first few and having trouble explaining that DS needed to trace between his fingers) and tell him that his parents shouldn't do his homework for him. He's in kindergarten. It's the first bleeping thing we've done for him all year and DH only did it to show DS how. After that DS' work product improved a ton, so it was a very effective teaching method. If you're going to send homework home and expect the parents to sign off on it, you need to expect that we're going to try to teach DS how to do it.
Ok, I feel better now. Back to your regularly scheduled threads. Oh, and feel free to add your vents here too!
Catherine
I would vent too! This is a kindergarten teacher????
