Bad Teacher....really.

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Nothing to do with the movie - or a hot woman etc.

Bascially, my son (who is 6) got a new stand-in teacher about 3 weeks ago - she will be teaching his Primary 2 class until the end of the school year as his normal teacher is very ill at the moment. It's a small school.

Cue to this morning when I am getting my son ready for school. He has been telling me for the last week or so that the new (stand-in) teacher isn't very nice, so this morning - he tells me she says bad words. I say "like what" ?

Apprently she told the class to "Shut-up" twice yesterday, and has said it last week a few times. She also rarely remembers to give them reading homework... and promises stuff to them - then tells them she never said stuff etc. I'm more concerned about the "shut-up"s though.

Now bear in mind - these are 5 and 6 year olds, who are sent to the headmistress if they even so much as utter "Shut-up" to anyone.

Not too sure whether to make a fuss about this to the head, as it may backfire and get my kid into a whole lot of grief. It's just quite annoying that they have employed someone like this - as his old teacher was great.
 
If it continues and impacts on your son's learning then definately talk to the head. Talk to other parents and see if they have heard similar things, if they have then you have more of a case of why she shouldn't be teaching.
 
Not really much you can do seeing as there isn't really any way to prove it =/

If your son says she keeps doing it then just report her to the head and hopefully it'll be dealt with.
 
Scuzi said:
I look back at some of the people I grew up with who are now teachers and I place my face firmly into my palm.
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Equally as shocking is the quanitity of barely numerate/literate people taking jobs as teaching assistants. :/
 
You have every right to raise your concerns with the Head of the Year Group or Senior Team. Send a letter. They may have had many complaints and are waiting for one more to tip it. Alternatively she may be an agency cover and absolutely useless, if they want to they can request someone new from the Agency and ask for that teacher never to be sent to the school again.

[Source]My wife is a primary teacher and I work in a high school where rubbish cover teachers have been told to leave within 2 days
 
I think speaking to other parents is a good idea first, if their kids say the same thing then it lends more credibility to the story and is harder for the school/teacher to refute.
 
That was what I had planned to do. Surprisingly one of the other fathers had already said to me that she was a poor substitute teacher.... and she had a terrible teaching method/way of controlling the class. Not too sure how he knew that though.
 
Sorry I really can't get upset about a teacher telling kids to 'Shut up!' if she added the ffs then yes but the world really has gone soft when shut up is considered offensive or damaging.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Sorry I really can't get upset about a teacher telling kids to 'Shut up!' if she added the ffs then yes but the world really has gone soft when shut up is considered offensive or damaging.
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Whilst I agree, there are better ways of dealing with 5 and 6 year olds. It is not the best way to treat them.

Personally I prefer the old crossed arms finger on Lips. Best ever was me helping in a Year 9 (13/14 year olds) and stood at the front of the class and did it to make them all quiet. With 10 seconds all of them had done it, it was like magic. Basically an auto response!
 
a1ex2001 said:
Sorry I really can't get upset about a teacher telling kids to 'Shut up!' if she added the ffs then yes but the world really has gone soft when shut up is considered offensive or damaging.
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Kids that age are ridiculously impressionable, if someone who they look up to, and who they learn from starts telling them to shut up, then they'll thinks it's fine and start doing the same. It's no MASSIVE deal, but not something you want your 6 year old to learn, and also points to other bad teaching methods and things that you don't want your kids picking up.
 
freak2002 said:
Whilst I agree, there are better ways of dealing with 5 and 6 year olds. It is not the best way to treat them.
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Like what? Cotton wool and hugs and kisses?


God the worlds gone soft when people cry over school kids being told to "shut up" by a teacher :rolleyes:

**p.s. My wife's a teacher - no idea if she tells her kids to shut up but some of the stories she tells me about 5-6 yr olds in her school would certainly raise an eyebrow - they're not all little angels you know ;)

godinman said:
..... and also points to other bad teaching methods and things that you don't want your kids picking up.
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So tell me, do you have a teaching qualification that enables you to comment on good and bad methods of teaching?
 
Don't worry about the "shut-up". I worry that kids these days are treated so gently that when they enter the real world on their own they're going to be so sensitive everything will upset them.

The other issues perhaps investigate and keep an eye on.

I do understand the worrying about teachers though. I have a 5.5yr old daughter myself.

P.S. I tell her to shut up all the time. As Mark Ruffalo said on Graham Norton's show recently, "If you're not yelling at your children you aren't spending enough time with them." I thought that was a cracking quip!
 
godinman said:
Kids that age are ridiculously impressionable, if someone who they look up to, and who they learn from starts telling them to shut up, then they'll thinks it's fine and start doing the same. It's no MASSIVE deal, but not something you want your 6 year old to learn, and also points to other bad teaching methods and things that you don't want your kids picking up.
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First world problems :o

Can't believe how soft society has become, you kids have probably seen you ave a glass of wne or a bottle of beer yet they don't imediately assume it is ok for them too. Kids know that some things are ok for adults that aren't ok for them etc etc etc. The modern world really can be a depressing place I can't imagine 10-20 years ago someone going to school to complain that noisey children were told to shut up!
 
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