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Overly Protective.....
By Kelly

I may be overly protective of her. my husband says that I am, up until now I was looking at it as "looking out for the best interest of my child" Every parents wants the best for their kids, so do I.
I honestly do think
that I allow her to "fight" her own battles, but should she have to sit in a class day after day and listen to this lady scream at her and others. She wouldn't want to go back to school anymore. I know her by now.
Should she be in a class where the teacher sits on her butt all day and barks out orders to the students such as "Clean off that bookshelf", "Go over to my cabinet, and bring

me a bottle of water." ?

If she does get up and go sit across the room, she'll ask the students "Go get my pillow" "Bring me my phone, or purse". These requests to me are too much. I can understand using a student to do an errad or to bring you something if they are coming that way, but she does it all day long.

Sometimes she won't even walk them to special areas or lunch. She will ask a teacher aid or another teacher passing by. She doesn't have any health reasons to be sitting all day. Her excuse is that she is too tired because she works at another job until 9 p.m.

Not only that, we just recieved our failure rate data for the past 5 years, she's had a 45% failure rate out of her class every year for the past 3, and 30% for the two before that. She has the most students stay back from her class than all the first grade teachers combined. She doesn't make lesson plans until it is time for her to turn them in and then half the things, she has never done.

Am I so wrong for wanting better than that for my child? When I say that she needs structure, I mean she needs someone who is stable in her job. Last year, she took off 60 days total because she "couldn't handle the stress".

I honestly don't know why she is allowed to be working here. I requested that she not be in that class, and the principal looked at me and said "Don't worry, I wouldn't want to ruin your childs outlook on school, and I wouldn't put my dog in her class. Unfortunally, I have to put someone's child in there, but it won't be yours."

This makes me wonder, if even the principal wouldn't put her dog in there, WHY IS SHE STILL HERE???

By the way, it did get back to her. She is hotter than the Fourth of July right now.