DS punished for teachers mistake

I'm curious as to what that private word would be?
Because apart from the name of the child, which may not have been her error, depending on how many people it went through.
Everything that she has done has been to follow to school rules which would be passed down to her through the HoD.

Yes, that.

I’d be cutting the sticker off of the new book, sticking it on and just to be pedantic, sellotape 20p to a post-it note to cover the cost of the vandalised book and offer it back as scrap paper. 🤣

Just maybe ....... The teacher probably said 'don't worry about it for now' and would have printed a new label out later.

Tom isn't his name. Why should he accept a fake name? It's highly disrespectful of the teacher to change it- once pointed out she should apologise and promise to relabel it as soon as she can. He didn't deface the book with a doodle. The teacher's label is the one defacing the book.

No - read the post. He WASN'T told not to correct it

I have my book from infants school. My sister scribbled out my name and added hers. I turned the book upside down and wrote my name neatly on the back which now became the front, the big gap line was at the bottom not the top. I always thought the teacher had not noticed, of course she had but even the strict teachers of yesteryear sound kind compared to your son’s teacher. I imagine she was absent from school when diplomacy and self awareness were taught!

It won't be the child's class teacher who made this rule...this will have been the Senior Leadership Team. The class teacher will just be following the ridiculous policy on this stuff.

so? teacher can take one for the team. It is a simple matter of sticking a new label over the old one, and not being a twit about a child's name in future. Teacher has learned something here.

Vandalised ? WTF? He didn’t vandalise the book he simply corrected the error. It’s not an expensive first edition.

This was my thought too! Wasteful when a new sticker or the corrected one is absolutely fine.

OP- I think this is ridiculous and I would absolutely be raising it!

Remove the staples from the old book, take out the pages of work then take the staples out the new book, insert the work then put staples back in. Simple.

Gently suggest to your child that in future they ask for a replacement sticker rather than changing it himself. Hopefully the teacher won't make the same mistake again.

Ridiculous! He’s only 8! I teach in a secondary school and wouldn’t behave like this.

If its a member of senior leadership this is filtering down from then I’d be asking to speak to them directly about how the inane pressure they’re filtering down to their staff has resulted in your child being punished for a mistake that wasn’t his - and apparently sense has left the building and instead or re labelling a book we’re now just wasting almost unused resources for the sake of a sticky label. And we wonder why teachers are leaving in droves.

I agree with posters that I wouldn’t be making my son re copy anything back out and I’d be explaining why. If he’s repeatedly corrected them on his name for the entire school year they’ve already had six months to learn his name, I’d be pissed off too. Would teacher like it if he started abbreviating her name? I doubt she’d be particularly patient.

This kind of thing is why we leave.

I would send a message back to the teacher saying that due to them mis-naming him, he corrected the error and that you would like a sticker to cover up the original error. Making him rewrite the work and saying he has “vandalised” his book is preposterous. I would not be asking him to redo the work and I would not be doing it either. That’s a very draconian punishment for a young child when the error is not his.

That’s true actually - the teacher afraid of the “book look” - but to make the child write the work out again is unreasonable.

I mean... I'm a teacher and I wrote about my experiences. I have seen it in all five schools I have worked in. I strongly suspect it is a factor in this school.

Agree. Totally unreasonable of the teacher - what a power trip.

It won't be the child's class teacher who made this rule...this will have been the Senior Leadership Team. The class teacher will just be following the ridiculous policy on this stuff.

At a previous school I worked in, I was once quite literally called 'lazy and disorganised' following a book scrutiny, because ONE of my classes 34 writing books had ONE 'date and learning objective' sticker stuck in every so slightly crooked...and I'm talking about a tiny 'slant' of an angle not quite straight!!! It was UTTERLY bizarre, but I got an official warning letter about 'presentation standards'.

I'd been teaching for 25 years at this point and was Writing Lead and an LEA Writing Advisor...so definitely NOT lazy and disorganised!!

I handed my notice in that term...such a toxic environment.

My daughter's name ends with an 'ie'. At her foundation year parents evening I found they'd been spelling ending just 'i'. I added the 'e' to everything - her books, her tray, her peg. The teacher didn't accuse me of vandalism, she apologised for her mistake. Like your son's teacher needs to

Former teacher here. You would not believe just how difficult some senior leaders can be. The teacher may have been worried about a potential book scrutiny that they would be pulled up on it.
I have been given handwriting targets where the kids were writing but not joining and I was given a talking to about what a rubbish teacher I was because of this and would be put on a support plan.

sometimes teachers are so overwhelmed and scared of leaders that they lose all sense of reality as they are worried about losing their job over the most ridiculous things.

this is what it is like in many schools

Carefully cut out the page and tape it in.

Absolutely this, why is anyone even contemplating anything with a second book, what a ridiculous waste of resources

Say to teacher she needs to tell you what she is doing here

1. is she punishing your son by making him “write out his lines” for 20 mins because she made a mistake
2. or does she want to relabel the original with two nice labels - given it was her mistake and not be so OCD.
3. or should sh neatly cut out his original writing and stick it into the new book

as much as anything issuing him with a whole new exercise book is a waste of money and funds fgs. Unless she plans to acquire it and take it home to use.

Make the bloody point to her it is not acceptable to punish your child because she has invented a random name for him, which is not what he is called.
she made a mistake. And telling him to ignore his name is pretty disrespectful . Can he just call her a random name?

can you cut out and stick the pages in the new book? or can you get the cover off the new one and replace the one on the old one? any fuss from teacher needs to be shut down.