I apologise in advance here, I am angry and therefore ranting, and so may not sound quite sane in the following......and if I offend any teacher it is not teachers as a proffession I have issue with, it is one teacher, on one day, and two daughters upset.....!!!!
cooking
DD1 is doing GSCE catering (she will never be a chef, we know this, but it was the only option that fitted in with her dance and drame that she is doing, but never-the-less she is willing to trying to learn....she will still need to know how to cook as a life skill......I digress....).....she is finding things hard. today, after being away from school for 5 wks (before and after xmas) because of knee injury, she has had her first lesson with cake baking. the previous lesson the teacher showed the class what to do......DD1 missed this thru her absence. still, DD1 went to see the teacher, asked for and was given the topic (baking two cakes, one of which was to have a cream filling, other of choice), and proceeded to sort out what she was baking. One cake was choc/cream swiss roll, the other was marsys infamous LDC.
sadly, all has gone wrong.....DD1 was having issue with doing two cakes in the time allowed (two double lessons, so 1.5hrs), and also had issues with the cooking time of the LDC. she asked for help, was shouted at for not being prepared and for not paying attention in the previous lesson, when she replied saying that she had missed the lesson, was shouted at for being rude (she may have been I do grant....she is 14, she has attitiude, I am not cross about this).....what I am cross about is that the teacher pulled the cake out of the oven before it was ready, and told DD1 that it was pointless continueing and told to just carry on with the swiss roll.
now, not being funny, but we payed for the ingredients for this cake, who is this teacher to effectivly ruin a cake because my DD was having difficulty, surely she should have gone thru what had happened and explained to her how to continue so she can finish the cake,.....in other words, TEACH my DD1 to do, not give up on her.
DD2, same teacher, next double lesson.
had been told that she is to make a pasta dish that uses chicken, and with pasta shapes not spaghetti.....ok, she chose chicken pasta salad.
I went thru everything with her last night, found the recipe on here, and told her the planning and timing etc.
she got a bit muddled with the chicken......she wanted to cook the chicken from raw in school (DD2 coulc make a chef, she is actually a good little cook), so asked the teacher for help grilling the chicken.
the teacher told her that grilling chicken leads to food poisoning, she is to bake it or fry it.
now, DD2 has helped me grill before, she knows it is safe, what she was confused with was the grill at school more than how (IYGWIM), as all ovens are different.
anyway.............she then did what she was told, and then lost points for it as she didn;t follow the menu plan.......
argh.
this I know is about one teacher, and two problems with two girls, but it is both on one day, they are both upset, and I feel that they haven;t actually learnt what to do and how, but they have learnt that this teacher is unfair!
am off for dancing runs now.....will be back for my flack later