Student asking for a snow day snowballs into something bigger

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by alum

Let me clarify. From what I've seen as a parent and as a college administrator is that immigrant families and the families with fewer financial resources are more reluctant to fight with a school administrator than those families who have more resources or who are US-born citizens.

I believe that many immigrants at Eagle View ES would hesitate to confront Mrs. Tistadt if she was rude to their kids or to them. She would be able to get away with a certain amount of disrespect towards the students and their parents because there would be no complaints. Now if the immigrant family was at Haycock or any other McLean/Langley feeder (which I would infer would need a certain level of income to live in those pyramids), I think it would be a different story. The kids and their parents are treated with respect at these schools and those families have no hesitation complaining about anything whatsoever that doesn't go their way.


Mrs. Tistadt overstepped her bounds and at a minimum, needs to be put on administrative leave and to enroll in anger management classes.

I feel bad for her. She's probably tired of people thinking they have the right to access her husband 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I see how it is for my mom as a teacher. Parents with failing kids are insisting that she stay after school to tutor them. WHY? The school already offers tutoring for all students and the parents never show any interest in their own kids. My mom has the 4 of us at home and after work is done she doesn't need to deal with their brats, they (as parents) do. People love to blame and harass others with their problems nowadays. That kid should have expressed his concern to his parent. They have the authority to let him stay home. Obviously they weren't and he should have just went to school instead of calling this poor woman in her home looking for her husband like he owes every Tom, Dick, and Harry something. Like she says in her rant, he does his job. Enough is enough. There are some boundaries that should just not be crossed. Her husband wasn't even at home. She doesn't need an anger management class, she needs for people to stop treating her husband like public property and more like a human being. It seems as if he doesn't have a lot of time to spend it with her.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I feel bad for her. She's probably tired of people thinking they have the right to access her husband 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I see how it is for my mom as a teacher. Parents with failing kids are insisting that she stay after school to tutor them. WHY? The school already offers tutoring for all students and the parents never show any interest in their own kids. My mom has the 4 of us at home and after work is done she doesn't need to deal with their brats, they (as parents) do. People love to blame and harass others with their problems nowadays. That kid should have expressed his concern to his parent. They have the authority to let him stay home. Obviously they weren't and he should have just went to school instead of calling this poor woman in her home looking for her husband like he owes every Tom, Dick, and Harry something. Like she says in her rant, he does his job. Enough is enough. There are some boundaries that should just not be crossed. Her husband wasn't even at home. She doesn't need an anger management class, she needs for people to stop treating her husband like public property and more like a human being. It seems as if he doesn't have a lot of time to spend it with her.

I had a funny and simple thought this morning how she could have handled it better.

Instead of addressing him...why didn't she call and speak to his parents directly?

When you are dealing with kids you know they are prone to doing devious things...