May 21, 2004
She's a crackpot and I told them that.
Every single issue I presented to her, all the things she has said and done, she answered me with a "That was not my intention. I love my students. I am a master educator."
And in front of the principal and vice principal, I told her that the road to hell is paved with the best intentions and she needs to see a shrink.
I listened to that nutball tell me that the students bring up all the issues and so I asked her if it is her practice of letting the students run the class and choose the lesson plan.
She said no but she answered their questions.
I asked her if she thought it was appropriate that she tell her students she tried to kill herself.
She said she told them about it so they could make good choices. Best intentions, yada yada.
I asked her if she felt qualified to be the sole support for a kid who is thinking about it and did she feel again, that it was appropriate to tell 12-13 year olds she tried to kill herself.
She didn't answer me.
I asked why she thought it was ok to tell 12-13 year olds that abortion is murder. That she told them her personal views on a controversial and heated subject.
She said she felt like she needed to tell them that so that maybe they would wait to have sex. (?)
I asked her if she had any medical training at all that would make her think it's alright to tell kids about some small green packet of some herbal supplement.
No.
So why are you giving out health and medical advice to 12-13 year olds without a license to practice medicine or a parents permission to "treat" their children.
I am a master educator.
Keep telling yourself that sweetie.
I then turned to the principal and the vice principal and told them that it is my opinion that over the summer, this teacher receive psychological help and also re-training on what subject she actually teaches.
I then told them that neither of my sons will ever have her for a teacher again and if she has any contact with my kids, I will ask for her removal.
I took notes the whole time. I showed her the photocopied page out of Marks agenda book where he wrote down her number after she told them to in the event they want to kill themselves. None of it phased her. It was like she felt everything she had said was perfectly valid.
I am a master educator.
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She thanked me for bringing my concerns to her but to rest assured, she has my child in mind when she hands out worksheets. She talked to me like I was a five year old in that talk down condescending way.
I said yin-yang and phrenology has no place in language arts.
I asked the principal what language arts class means to them. They gave me the curriculum handbook and defined it for me.
I asked them if what I was telling them about sounded like part of the normal class.
They both agreed that the worksheets were better suited to science or health class.
She said she was trying to discover their behaviors.
So if you want to be a kid shrink, change your class subject and teach health class.
I asked her if they covered any of the great writers or poets this year.
Frost, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Anderson, Alcott, Carroll, Emerson, Whitman etc etc etc.
No.
Did they write any short stories or finish the lady and the tiger?
No.
What is Marks grade in your language arts class?
It's not what I would want him to have she said.
I said, well, with the crap you have been teaching him, I really don't care if you fail him. You haven't taught him language arts. You haven't taught him to write, read, create. You have imposed your health and moral ideas on him and the rest of your students and you expect them to be able to pass a test on language arts.
I thanked her for her time and then turned to the leads again and re-stated what I would like to see happen. Mental health help for her over the summer and a clear and concise definition of her subject clearly written out for her and perhaps someone can help her make lesson plans because she obviously just lets it go off in whatever direction.
She can't be fired due to the teachers union. Fine, don't fire her but see that she gets help.
On the way out, the principal told me that she was very concerned about some of the issues I brought up and she would talk things over with the super and the school board. She kept apologizing and said she will have a long talk with the teacher on these subjects.
I told her again, just for fun, the teacher is a crackpot and she needs help.
I got Mark out of class early and we came home.
Now I need to eat and take a small nap because tonight we have Sebastians media showcase at school to go to.
Later.
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Kat posted at 12:49 PM on May 21, 2004 ||
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