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Advice needed pls - Do you think this teacher is BU, and what do I say to her?

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ilovepiccolina · 30/11/2009 21:24

DS is 16 and takes his mock Maths GCSE this week, real thing in the summer. For the past few weeks he's been coming home saying that Miss sent him out of the class for no good reason. I know that he can fidget, not listen etc so have ignored this. Then on Friday he came home angry, frustrated and upset, saying that he had put his head down briefly onto the desk, and she had shouted 'Right, out NOW' etc. & made him stand outside for 15 mins. Another boy was sent out for making a noise as he yawned. (They were both 'disrupting' the class.) He says that this was totally unjustified.

She'd gone home by this time so I've sent a note asking her to ring me. I am very concerned that DS is missing valuable tuition in a subject he struggles with. I bumped into at CA friend who's worked with this teacher, she said if she was the parent she would kick up a stink, and that the teacher is hopeless at teaching basically - she doesn't get 'on task' for the first 20 mins so no wonder the dch get bored/sleepy/distracted.

Why couldn't she have said to DS 'Sit up straight!' He said he would have. Is there not a better way of dealing with this behaviour? DS says all the other teachers ignore it.

What should I do?

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chosenone · 30/11/2009 21:39

Thats good, sending him out is meant to be a temporary measure or if behaviour is completely unacceptable. Teachers some times need to relocate students to other members of staff or their Head of dept, not unreasonable to ask especially as its Year 11 and he's wasting time on the corridor!

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ilovepiccolina · 30/11/2009 21:36

OK, thanks for the 'targets' suggestion. Can I really ask for him to be put with someone else? It's a bit late for not mentioning behaviour - in my note I put that I wondered if there was some other way for him to be punished rather than sending him out.

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chosenone · 30/11/2009 21:30

Ask for an appointment with her, or even a telephone appointment. Be friendly and positive and come from the angle that you want to ensure that he is going to meet his target/predicted grade or higher. See if she mentions behaviour. If she says she's been sending him out, ask for him to be relocated to another member of the Maths dept so he can still complete the work. See if there's anything you can do to support him and her so he can achieve, you could ask for a behaviour report if she thinks there is a problem. It can be recorded for all to see. He may need targets like no fidgeting or no low level disruption, this will make expectatations clear and perceptions of his behaviour clear.