problems with daughter and teachers.. help/advice please

[suzieQuattro70]

Any advice welcome...

So daughter is 15 and in year 10 at school. She is doing ok with her GCSE subjects.

The problem we have is with her behaviour in school. I have to attend a meeting with the year head next week to talk about her behaviour points this school year currently at 55. Daughter had been told she will get an exclusion for 2 days. Behaviour points are for uniform, being late, forgetting rules and equipment, truanting pe, one incident of swearing, make up and generally messing about and chatting in class.

Whilst I don't condone her behaviour it does seem a bit harsh to exclude her. She has never been violent and by my reckoning a third of the points are for forgetting rulers and other minor things.

We have talked to her about it and she feels she can do nothing right and is singled out. I have explained to her that if she just behaved she could save herself all this aggro but she says school teachers wind her up and go overboard at the smallest thing.

Does anybody else have experience s similar and can they exclude her?

you clearly don't have children coming up to GCSEs having their lessons constantly disrupted by this low level behaviour like i do. i am fed up of it. it is actually far easier to deal with the really badly behaved kids then this constant drip drip taking the piss, lack of respect for the teachers or other students.

Tedd - no-one is saying that the OP's daughter is right, or that the school shouldn't take action, and yes, I totally agree that the constant drip drip is the worse to deal with.

But you were just blatantly rude and unkind, for no reason.

OP, your DD is the kind of pupil my DDs are really irritated by. Because they want to get on and do their work and actually achieve something. Support the school and tell your DD to get her act together. Endless low level disruption has a really big impact on lessons.

Having said that I have little patience with schools who are nitpicky and fussy about uniform and makeup.