Dropping a Sorority

[AlphaFrog]

I really hope the OP is ESL, otherwise, I have lost total faith in our school system...not that I had much faith to begin with when my kindergartener came home a few weeks ago and said that her teacher told the class that they can drop out of school at 16.

[als463]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I really hope the OP is ESL, otherwise, I have lost total faith in our school system...not that I had much faith to begin with when my kindergartener came home a few weeks ago and said that her teacher told the class that they can drop out of school at 16.

Are you freakin' serious? WTF is wrong with people? This person is teaching your child? I sure hope you complain about that to the school. I personally know of our Guidance Counselor telling people they should, "Just quit school because you are wasting tax payer money." I mean...really???

JUST WOW!!!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by als463

Are you freakin' serious? WTF is wrong with people? This person is teaching your child? I sure hope you complain about that to the school.

Oh, please don't complain to the school, at least not without talking to the teacher first (not that I think AF would do that). That would be a complete over-reaction, and right off the bat in kindergarten, you'd have the teacher and the principal thinking of you as "that parent."

If you're concerned about something the teacher said, you talk to the teacher about it. Maybe the teacher really is a whack-job, but I've had plenty of experiences of my kids coming home and sharing something eyebrow-raising that the teacher said, only to ask the teacher about it and find out there was a completely different and understandable context than what my kid picked up on. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the comment came up in a context like this.

RANDOM KID: I don't like having to come to school. It should be against the law to make a kid come to school if he doesn't want to.

TEACHER: Sorry you don't like school. It's actually the law that you do have to come.

RK: That's not fair! How long before they can't make me come to school if I don't want to.

T: You have to be 16 before you can stop coming to school if you don't want to. That's a long way off, so you might as well just forget about it and learn to enjoy school.

Yep, had that conversation more than once with a certain random kid who lives at my house.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Maybe the teacher really is a whack-job, but I've had plenty of experiences of my kids coming home and sharing something eyebrow-raising that the teacher said, only to ask the teacher about it and find out there was a completely different and understandable context than what my kid picked up on. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the comment came up in a context like this.

RANDOM KID: I don't like having to come to school. It should be against the law to make a kid come to school if he doesn't want to.

TEACHER: Sorry you don't like school. It's actually the law that you do have to come.

RK: That's not fair! How long before they can't make me come to school if I don't want to.

T: You have to be 16 before you can stop coming to school if you don't want to. That's a long way off, so you might as well just forget about it and learn to enjoy school.

Yep, had that conversation more than once with a certain random kid who lives at my house.

Yep and that is one reason why K-12 schools and colleges/universities don't fly off the handle everytime a student complains about a teacher/professor or claims that a teacher/professor said or did something. Students of various ages complain about everything and sometimes exaggerate.

I had a convo like this with a random high schooler:

Random student: I hate this teacher. He's so mean and I'm not learning anything from this boring class.

Me: Wow! What is this teacher doing?

Random student: Well, all of this reading. I don't want to do all of this reading. I'm tired of being told what to do. And then he gets mad when we don't read and tries to make us take quizzes and stuff.

Me: Um...that's called TEACHING. What do you expect to have to do in school? Teachers work darn hard to prepare to teach. Why should you just get to sit there and run your mouth about nothingness?