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Questions tagged [teacher]
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The teacher erased 3 pages of my 5 year old's completed homework
I have a 5-year-old smart child. He does his homework as neat as he can. Yesterday, he stayed up for an hour doing 3 pages of homework as good as he can and today when checking his copy-book, I found that his teacher had erased all the 3 pages and…
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How do you as teacher deal with children who like to hug you?
I'm a male teacher. I have a problem with two 10-year-old girls who sometimes insist on hugging me. I don't particularly enjoy hugs at the best of times and when the hug comes from a minor I really dislike it.
I have discussed my aversion to hugs…
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How do I address a teacher humiliating my son by calling him a "tattletale"?
My friend recently shared this experience, and I thought it would be a good question for our site:
So, [my son] got in trouble in school today.
It seems that the kids were lined up in the hallway, listening to an announcement. Some of the kids were…
user420
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What can I tell and what can I ask of a 2nd grade teacher, about my child's health?
My son is 6 and in second grade. In general he is quite healthy, but he has illness induced asthma. In other words, his asthma is essentially dormant unless he gets a cold or the flu, at which point it can become quite severe.
This morning he has…
dgo
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How do you investigate what's going on in the pre-kindergarten classroom?
For some, seeing the kindergarten teacher have such remarkable control over 20 children seems astonishing.
But she doesn't get that without doing something. And the children don't always tell you what injustices have occurred during the day, even…
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Teacher asking my 5 year old daughter to take a boy student to toilet
My daughter is in year 1 in the UK. She was asked by her teacher to help a boy of her class go to the boys' toilet and get back. What should I be aware of in such cases? I am not sure what were the circumstances under which she asked this from my…
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How can I handle a situation with a faulty, cruel teacher that does not like me and takes it out on my child?
Let me start by offering to explain my situation. It is a lot more challenging to handle than the title presents, so I should definitely elaborate, then I'll ask my question.
My child is in 1st grade, has always been a well-behaved student and…
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How can we make the most of Parent-Teacher consultations?
We attend parent-teacher consultations once a term and we sometimes come out feeling as if we've just received the the boilerplate script. Little X is doing fine, reaching all appropriate milestones etc. If we ask what we can do to at home it's…
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What can a parent do when his child has an incompetent teacher?
What can you do when your child comes back from school with tears in her eyes or her heart because of an incompetent teacher? Three examples to illustrate:
she told her class that humans can hear radio waves. Without a radio!
She teaches physics…
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How do you handle a conflict between your child and a teacher?
How do you approach resolving a situation where a teacher and your child are having a major conflict? When your child comes to you complaining about "unfair treatment" from a teacher, how do you identify where the problem is really coming from,…
user420
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What are best practices for managing student-teacher relationships?
Often the focus is on the relationship between teachers and parents, which makes sense largely because the parents seek to manage their relationship with the teachers.
My question is: as a parent, what approaches or best practices work for getting…
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What are some effective strategies that I can take to get my first grade child in the highest quality teacher's classroom?
My child is now in Kindergarten, and next year she will switch schools.
I watched the movie Waiting for "Superman" and now I would like to know how I can influence the selection of a teacher (e.g. so that she get a teacher who has been teaching…
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How to stop my child's teacher from disciplining my child without my consent?
My daughter is 6 she is diagnosed add adhd fetal exposure. We adopted her at 6 weeks. I told the school after a assistant teacher terrorized my child into saying she was lying when she wasn’t not to discipline my child with out my knowledge or…
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How should I handle academic disagreement with a teacher?
A second grade teacher of a friend of my daughter taught her class that Columbus was not a nice man, and explained why. My daughter was not affected by this teaching. However, it brought up the question of what should I do when/if this happens to…
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What to do about my boyfriend's 6-year-old who behaves very badly when away from his parents?
My boyfriend has a 6-year-old boy for whom he has primary custody over. He visits his mother for the summer, some holidays, talks to her via Skype and on the phone. He seems to have a very loving and great connection with her.
He just came back a…
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