loads of poitnts to raise its a bit of a confessional
i phoned school to ask for appt with head of year today - which i got and dh is coming too ( i refuse to get souted at about how thicka nd unorganised my kids are alone)
basically those of you who have read edumication threads i have posted before will be aware of the drama teacher from the boil n the pimple on the arse of hell. my girl (11) lost her book but was too frightened literally to tell drama teacher - she was to frightened to tell me - and the book only costs 25p to replace. so over a period of 3 weeks she had had umpteen detentions writing out some rubbish paragraph which i have posted before, she has red writing all over her homework diary and it has got as far as the head of year who is taking the time out to help her write up all the old stuf into the new book as from today.
thats the situation, my concern is the fear associated with it she is in floods of tears, she wrote me a note saying this and pinned it above my bed
dad & mum
i found out that the dog ate my hearing aid mouldes again and i want to tell you i dont like school i want to home school becuase you will give me harder stuff to do and i am not going in tomorrow we will talk about it in the morning.
this was all becuase of drama - i really think she fed the dog her hearing aid moulds so she didnt have to go into school ( she went anyway)
she had to not only write out this paragraph of dribble fromt he teacher that when written is 3/4 of a page not only has to do the detention but had to write a letter of apology.
now the other stuff
my boys are lovely love them to bits but academically thick.
my 15yr old has set a president at this school we moved to from the north of england to a very nice catholic school int e south,
int he north ds1 was bullied by girls - he went into this school half way through 1st year and in the first week was in a fight with a lad who tried to steal his bike. however this did his confdence the world of good and he is that lazy wide boy with the tie not fastened properly who enjoys a banter with the teacher - not rudeness i wont tolerate rudeness, he used to forget books - at the is moment in time he has lost two school jumpers so goes to school without one. he had a major run in with drama teacher when he first started so much so i wrote in a letter of complaint and asked for the discipline policy of the school as i didnt understand 3 punishments at once.
now the twins have started secondary school and my girl is as right as can be but my second lad is much academically like his older brother but much more withdrawn. he is in a special needs class and rightly so. he cant read his own writing ( left handed is that an excuse?) so he comes home with homework in his diary he cant read and doesnt remember.
now my girl is in special needs - and i dont understand why - she is intelligent and bright and hates sitting in a class with kids who have to learn how to spell "ride" she is bored shitless and missing mainstream english who are learning library skills - which are very very important IMO.
when they come home from school they get changed hang their uniform up and put their shoes in one place so there is no trying to find bits of it in themorning. i ask if they have homework and tey do it - i sit with them and do it - we went out and bought a printer last week for ds1 who needed it for the homework he had to do next day.
still they forget their pe kits when they leave despite getting it readyt he night before or they forget their sandwiches ( this happened this morning luckily i spotted it as i dont have to set off for work for another half an hour)
which all goes to form a flea bag view of the custardo household at school and am ded pissed off about it.
any road up am going in today at 3.15 tog et shouted at and not looking forward to it