What percentage of the time do you agree with your child's teacher?

[frances5]

My son has an excellent reception teacher. I am pleased with his progress and I am happy with the way he is being taught important stuff like reading, writing and numeracy. He also loves school and obviously has a lot of fun.

I think my son teacher gets it right at least 95% of the time. The rare times my son's teacher gets it wrong like giving homework that is too hard/ easy she responds and puts the problem right.

However I was talking to another mother who has problems with my son's teacher. Talking to this mother you would think that her son goes to a different school.

I am a teacher and in my experinece there are 2 kinds of parents - the one that forgives you the odd mistake and things you are doing a good job and the 2nd the one whose child is ohh so precious and gifted and talented and therefore you, the teacher are not stretching the child as you cannot see the child's clear talents and therefore thinks the teacher is always doing a bad job.

I haven't found anything I have disagreed with them over really.Don't think they were aware at first how much dd2 was hiding from them but ddin't take long!
dd1s teacher is great too

I haven't disagreed with ds1's nursery teacher/Head at all yet . They are brilliant. In fact they are sometimes better with him than I am.

I must say though, I see FAR more teachers denigrating and generalising about parents on here than the other way round.

In general I agree with them - they always seem to sum up my children pretty well.

Where we sometimes disagree is on the best way of dealing with the particular issues that occasionally come up. Some of that's no doubt down to the fact that they have as many as 29 other children to deal with, and some of it's down to their experience as teachers (much greater than mine)versus my experience of my DSs (much greater than theirs) - we both know things that the other one doesn't.

i met one outstanding teacher ever.

some were good teachers, one was a bad school, some were bad teachers.

i think unless your child is miss browns favourite little tinkerbell and class number one until she gets 10 GCSE's - you keep raging against a machine that fails your children..whilst managing to blame you as the parent

Parents deal with a few teachers at a time. Teachers deal with loads of parents. So they tend to generalise. I reckon anyway.

I generally agree with ds1's teachers (he's only in yr 1). They seem to have had quite a good measure of him and he's being stretched to his potential (which is a relief as he's working at least a year ahead of the one he is in).

There are parents who don't like the teacher and always have something to gripe about.

There are parents that whinge about the tiniest thing the school ever does IME. It does my head in - as if the school are introducing new procedures to be awkward. Yep, nothing better to do, let's think up some really annoying way to change school pick up time

Agree with Christie on the question of dealing with members of the public. On a recent trip to the hospital, I was struck by what the poor receptionists had to put up with. Completely unreasonable behaviour. They would say something about the waiting time or the waiting system (neither of which they have any control over) and people would swear at them. Or shake their fists in their face. What a job. Honestly. Sorry. off topic I know.