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secondary school teachers opinions ta muchio

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Tortington · 10/10/2006 19:25

got ophone call from french teacher reminding us to keep on ds back about a detention that he must attend becuase hes been acting a prat.

his behaviour is very rude - he isnt cocky - hes one of those weedy kids that acts stupid beucase he thinks it make him popular - teachers you know what i mean right?

to my utter dismay he is in the french class - which i believe this yer have been covertly streamed - even though the twins protesteth not - and he is in a class with all his other braindead little twerpy friends.

he is a complete prat - hes been a prat for a year now. i hate this pratty stage. my eldest son went straight from child to one of those 'i want people to think i am a man' teenagers - teahcers you know what i mean right?

he is soo immature.

anyway - so lets assume the class is streamed - and hes in the bottom - can i really ask for him to be moved - not only for his sake, for the sake of the poor weakling teacher and the rest of the class who are obviously not learning either.

theres only so much i can do from home. with the "i expect this kind of behaviour" lectures.

waddya think?

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wakeupandsmellthecoffee · 10/10/2006 20:17

I do love a realist parent . LOL (ps I am one too )

Blandmum · 10/10/2006 20:22

We move kids for behavioural reasons.

Your son is just the kind of nice but mildly pratty kid to benefit from such a move. Put a kid like that in the top set, they have no audience to play to, and they behave. In with other arsy buggers, it tends to go from bad to worse.

Love love realist parent too!

pianomummy · 10/10/2006 20:23

What year is he in? 9? 10?

madrose · 10/10/2006 20:25

we move them as well, no audience - better behaviour. Have a chat with head of year/french teacher, see if there anything they can do. They will like talking to a realist parent

gRowlers · 10/10/2006 20:29

Is he "able" or not?
If he has a brain in his head which he hasn't worked out how to use, it may give him a jolt to move into a group where he has to think.
I'd speak to Head of Langs and ask if it's poss.
I'm a French and German teacher, used to be Head of Faculty (until I saw sense) and have done this plenty of times.
We used to fill the top sets though so the weaker, lower sets would be more manageable, so there may not be room for him.
Is he in Year 9 by chance?
Oh how I hate having kids like your son (NO OFFENCE) in my class. It's such a drain. Especially divvy boys.

kiskidee · 10/10/2006 20:30

inour school we wouldn't move him to a lower set. that just encourages his dumbing down behaviour. it means that our bottom set kids get to work in peace without prats in their way.

can you reach an agreement with teacher and head of dept that for the tiniest infraction, out he goes to work isolated or like mb says, in to work with the top set kids where he has no audience.

if he protests, you are informed and ban him to a room for the whole evening, no telly or radio.

Blandmum · 10/10/2006 20:37

Year 9! The bane of the school teachers life!

Actually it starts in Y8 doesn't it, and gets worse and worse and around about y10 they wise up a bit?

Conincides with the onset of the great smell of Lyxs and sweat in the boys and love bites in the girls

I blane the hormones myself!

pianomummy · 10/10/2006 20:39

I think if you make it clear you're on the teacher's side, not his, that helps enormously in knocking this kind of attitude out of kids. agree with kiskidee - take away something he really enjoys (ipod - computer games - whatever) every time you learn from a teacher that he's been a prat.

is it just French he's a prat in or other subjects? you could ask for him to be put on a behaviour report (most schools have this) where each class teacher has to write how the student has behaved in that lesson. the tutor and you get to see it on a daily basis. when they've been on that a while that usually knocks it out of them too - that's apart from the really hard-core nutters, but by the sounds of things he's not one of those thank god!

kiskidee · 10/10/2006 20:40

thank god i don't have girls where i work.

but yes at yr 9 they start to stink. i warned my registration group in year 8 to start to take care when washing certain body parts.

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Tortington · 10/10/2006 22:41

was going to send a letter but think your right will make an appointment to see someone. i feel increasingly left out of his education.

thats becuase he has no aptitude - GCSEs will pass im by.

that doesnt mean that knowledge will though does it

GCSEs are not the BE all and ENd all of everything. he can still learn and sometimes i get this sinking feeling that the teachers dont want to know becuase
a) hes a complete dick
b) its not like he was going anywhere anyway.

and i hate the fact that my son behaves in this utterly dispicable way at school - the teachers much think my family is horrid. really really horrid.

and when i have spoken to teahcers in the pat it consists of " but but but....he's really nice at home.........honest!!!

"yes i am sure he is mrs custy" they reply unconvincingly.

it doesnt help that my oldest son thought he was fiddy cent and so the twins have to get over his legacy.

thank god for my girl is all i can say. if i only had boys i would lose the will to live.
yes year 9 BTW.

thank you

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somethingunderthebedisdrooling · 10/10/2006 22:45

ahh, custy, yr9 set 3? try to get him on report. yes, even if gcse's pass him by, he can still learn that behaving like a prat will not get him far but sitting down, shutting up and plodding ahead will.

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