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Bit annoyed with teacher over spellings

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 20:14

I know its trivial and I probably need to be told to get a grip but I was a bit surprised by what happened at pick up earlier.

Yr4 child has spelling test tomorrow - so I always check when he comes out of school on a wednesday that he has his spellings so we can double check he knows them tonight.

So he comes out without them - I send him back in to get them from his desk. He comes out and tells me he's not allowed to get them.

I assume he's got the wrong end of the stick so go down to his classroom - his teacher is at the door and I ask if I could get his spellings. Teacher says 'I've already told him its not a good time he should have asked earlier so he'll just have to try his best'.

I said ok and walked away but am a bit annoyed.

I know DS should be more organised but really would it have been so hard to grab his spellings from his desk?

Go on tell me she is absolutely right and I'm being totally precious I can take it Wink

Will add that spellings not his forte so he really does need to practice them a lot.

Oh and should add the school pride themselves on parents being able to have chats with teachers at pick up so I wasn't breaking any rules.

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Hulababy · 06/03/2013 22:19

fouranddone - as the teacher is not on this thread then noone knows what the actual reason was. The OP may presume there was no real reason , but we have no way of really knowing at all.

And pushing a teacher out of the way would be a very serious issue at every school I have been at and would mean serious intervention occurring. It would be seen as an assault by the parent.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:19

Funnily enough the school didn't used to do spellings but parents complained and so now there are spellings tests.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:21

Oh lordy Hula - every thread on mn is told from one person's viewpoint isn't it?

And I was never ever going to push a teacher out of the way.

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Hulababy · 06/03/2013 22:21

exoticfruits - agree; many far better ways.

fouranddone · 06/03/2013 22:21

Mrs Campbell when you speak to the teacher please don't just say he should better organised, a quick reminder to the whole class at home time wouldn't go amiss. We all forget things, I do a lot so I expect children to even more so. Smile

Hulababy · 06/03/2013 22:22

MrsCampbellBlack - I know you didn't say that; but someone else on the thread did. I was referring to that comment.

Kaekae · 06/03/2013 22:22

Teacher sounds like a jobs worth. I would not have stood for it. I wouldn't expect my child to be more organised, children forget, fact of life.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:22

And I do think it was to teach my DS to be more organised in future. And yes I'm sure my 8 year old not doing well in his spellings will teach him a very valuable lesson Hmm

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getmeaginandtonicnow · 06/03/2013 22:23

"he really does need to practice them"

Should be practise (verb), and not practice (noun). Sorry, pedantic and boring, but you did start thread about spelling OP................!

fouranddone · 06/03/2013 22:23

Hula you didn't read it very clearly I actually said barge Grin

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:23

To think I hated homework when I had to do it. I loathe it far more now my children have to do it Wink

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Bonsoir · 06/03/2013 22:24

It sounds as if you were within the normal cultural boundaries of your DCs' school when asking for the spellings and that the teacher wanted to be obstructive, for reasons unknown.

At my DD's school parents are usually quite helpful and will text or email a photo of the relevant pages of forgotten homework.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:25

Oh thanks getmeawhatever - that's really helpful Hmm hope you feel so much better now.

Don't get me started on the pedants on here or as I refer to them 'the rude fuckers who have nothing better to do than belittle someone who is upset'

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exoticfruits · 06/03/2013 22:28

We have absolutely no idea why she said it, and never will. Since only the OP knows anything about her I can't see how anyone can make all these judgements. Not knowing her, the school, or the classroom, you just have to assume she had her reasons.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 06/03/2013 22:30

Oh dear I swore on here and I never do that.

Best I go and 'practise' my own spellings Wink

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clam · 06/03/2013 23:18

MrsCampbellBlack I think people were aiming those objections about the 'barging' and the 'storming to the head' to fouranddone, not you.

I think you've sounded rational and measured in your posts. Not sure, however, whether to be Shock or Hmm at fouranddone's assertion that she's never rude or bitchy, but would nonetheless consider 'pushing past' the teacher!

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MrsCampbellBlack · 07/03/2013 05:58

Thanks Clam Smile

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fouranddone · 07/03/2013 08:27

Clam I said barge not push, they are very different things. However it would never actually happen as the teachers at my children's school would never act like this. We have naice teachers in our area Wink

clam · 07/03/2013 11:20

Your post of Wed 06-Mar-13 21:39:18 said, "I would have had no qualms about pushing past"

Although I can't believe you think there's a difference! Barge/push - both appallingly rude and unnecessary, regardless of the teacher's attitude, which I agree was unhelpful.

Hulababy · 07/03/2013 12:32

Barge/push - same thing to me tbh

Feenie · 07/03/2013 14:32

Because barging would be soooo much more polite......Hmm

mrz · 07/03/2013 17:18

barge verb

Definition
to hurry somewhere or through a place in a rude and forceful way

Informal to push (someone or one's way) violently

Hmm
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MrsCampbellBlack · 07/03/2013 19:18

Quick update - went to parent's evening and the teacher apologised as soon as she saw me so all resolved.

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clam · 07/03/2013 19:53

Oh come on! Half a story! We want to know WHY she wouldn't let him in. What was the crisis?

redskyatnight · 07/03/2013 20:22

Glad it was resolved.
I'd have assumed that "not a good time" meant one of the children in the classroom had just been sick, something had been spilt or there was an argument in progress between 2 children.
Which are the main reasons my DC are told not to go somewhere in school when there seems to be no reason that they shouldn't.

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