Looking for a bit of advance on how to deal with my daughter’s Latin teacher.
DD is in Y8 and a shy and polite (to her teachers anyway) child and does very well at school. We have just had parents evening and she is excelling in most subjects and most importantly is nice person to have in class though interestingly we couldn’t get Latin teacher.
DD took up Latin as her 2nd language as a bit of tester for GCSE and while enjoyed it at first quite quickly decided wasn’t for her as didn’t seem to be doing very well, she has made a few comments over the last year that she doesn’t like the way her teacher teaches, no discussion or time to question, just listen and then get on with the work. Neither myself or DH took Latin at school and just presumed it’s the way it is taught and subject isn’t for her, fair enough.
DD has been coming home from school the last few weeks really down and said Latin is starting to upset her and that the teacher is constantly picking on her.
She gives out stickers for work, and DD is yet to have one regardless of doing the same work and coming to the same answers/results.
DD said she was working as part of a team of 4 and when they showed their combined work Latin teacher awarded all 3 other girls a sticker but left DD out, DD said it was really awkward as teacher was literally leaning across her to stick them the other girls books.
on Friday DD has sports at lunch Latin and then rushes to catch her bus, she had waited until their was 15 minutes to go and asked if she could quickly nip to the toilet as didn’t have time before bus came and teacher had made it feel awful not giving her an answer just asking DD “What do you want me to say” and shaking her head, DD said she really didn’t know what she meant so repeated the question again and was told she would have a behaviour mark if the rudeness continued, DD had her period, though didn’t feel confident to say so in front of her class and teacher.
On top of all this is constant tutting, eye rolling and blaming her for any noise that is made in class, so much so that a few of the other girls have made off hand comments along the lines of what have you done to make Mrs Latin hate you so much.
just so not to drip feed the teacher is French. I’m not sure that excuses belittling or picking on young girls but I do wonder if there is a bit of miscommunication and teachers tone may be harsher than what DD is used to.
DD really was dreading school today so definitely need to do something about it. In this instance would you arrange telephone appointment with Latin teacher or would you go to head of year? I’m fairly furious on DD’s behalf but don’t want to go in quite constructively so wondering how to go about it.