Ds is a well behaved hard working Yr8 student who puts a lot of time and effort into all of his homework regardless of the subject.
One subject he does the teacher has told us that she considers him 'gifted and talented' in (pointless label I know) as he has produced GCSE level work and has always had top marks.
Ds's monitoring report has come back with this subject teacher stating that his homework is a 'cause for concern'.
At parent consultation evening we were informed that ds had not handed in 2 pieces of homework.
1/ A powerpoint presentation, which he had taken in on a dvd but there had been an 'IT issue' and the teacher had not been able to retrieve the work. Ds on coming home immediately burnt a new disc and returned it the next day but was unable to hand it in as he wasn't being taught the subject that day (teacher's decision, not his).
2/ Ds was one 13 out of 20 children who had misinterpreted the teacher's instructions and had revised how to do something rather than show how to do it on paper.
As a result he had a lunch time detention. At the time I thought it a little unfair as there was an obvious communication error between the teacher and pupils, but so be it.
So now my ds has a black mark on his report that will go up to his next school for things that I see as unfortunate incidents not totally down to ds, rather than blatantly not doing any homework.
Have to admit that I'm annoyed mainly because the teacher basically called ds a liar for telling me that the majority of children in the class had done the same as him for homework incident 2 and had to have a detention. 13/20 children to me is the majority of the class and I could see in her marking book the long column of red marks to back his statement.
So was the teacher a little heavy handed? And should we raise a query?
Ds of course feels it unfair as there are other children who don't appear to be punished for not doing homework at all.
Sorry so long, didn't want to drip feed.
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treas · 27/11/2012 23:29
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