I was not happy with this teacher this year but I have just chalked it up that my son and her do not get a long that happens. My son is not doing well at all and is usually a very good student. I have gone in and talked to her and she has just gone on and on about how lazy he is. I just thought WHATEVER. But I did tell my son he needed to get on the ball and do better. Long talks and grounding have just not worked. My son tells me these terrible stories about her and I believe about 1/4 of them. I just listen and tell him he should be doing better. Anyways I find this site ratemyteacher.com and she is on there. This is a place for students to go to rate their teacher. I agree that is dangerous anyway a lot of my sons teachers are on there and none of them have replied except for her. I am sure it is her because they verify the teachers that respond so the kids can't pretend to be the teacher. Anyway this lady is fighting with 6th graders and telling them that they will end up working at McDonalds she told one student that it is not up to teachers to teach it is up to the students to learn. Another comment was maybe if you tried harder you would be a failure. Another child said I used to be a geek in math now I am failing and she responded by saying it sounds to me like you have low self esteem.

Now my son has said before that she makes comments like this in class but I really never believed it. Now I read this

What would you think?

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Wow, I would schedule a conference with the principal and pull him from that classroom...and I would ask the principal to sit in on some of the classes

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Well obviously this teacher is not very professional.
Given that I think this is an excellent opportunity to explain to your child that we can't always have the teacher/coach/boss we want. This a good experience for when he becomes an adult and has to deal with unpleasant people.
The school year is almost over, I would tell him to put his head down and do the best he can to finish out the year.

Sounds like a very immature teacher. This is one of those life lessons. I agree totally with lunai24. I wouldn't pull him out of the class even though it is tough right now. Let him know that he is going to have a couple of teachers that don't see eye to eye with him but he still needs to get the work done. I would be highly suspicious of the website. If your sons friends have seen the site I am sure your son knows it is there too. At the sixth grade level things can seem very unfair. If she is posting, I am sure she will be found out and reprimanded. If it is not her posting someone is playing with her reputation. Get him through the school year, be supportive. June is coming

I agree with Lunia and Prdnme also, schools almost done this year, and there's going to be people you dont like all through life.

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I agree as well. Unfortunately, throughout life we have to deal with people like this sometimes. A few years ago I went back to school, as an adult, and had one terrible teacher. She was awful in so many ways and had me in tears at times. I just worked my way through it until is was over. I did complain to the administration though... don't know if it accomplished anything however, except the peace of standing up for myself and speaking my mind.
I feel for you as a mom. It is so hard when your child is treated unfairly. He should not have to deal with that at such a young age. Give him lots of love and support (as I am sure you are).

I would print it out and bring it to the attention of the administration. It's not acceptable for a teacher to address students in that manner in the classroom and especially not in a public forum, which Ratemyteacher.com is.

Teacher are held to a higher standard, they should not be stooping to this level and retorting to students like she is.

I always told my children, "Nobody said it would be fair", however don't lose sight that the teacher as well as the administrators work for you. Request a meeting and express your concerns. I learned that you need to present the facts and keep your child out of it. Mention that you are concerned, that your son normally is a good student and that your are just looking for ways to get him motivated. Do go on the defensive or the meeting will go nowhere.

Good luck.

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There is no reason that this should not be brought to someone's attention. Just because you will encounter difficult people in your life is no reason to give a teacher such as this a free pass to continue her behavior unchecked.

A couple of teachers at my sons middle school were fired after administration found out and investigated claims my parents and students. Some people just shouldn't be teaching--period.

IMHO, what she is doing is highly unprofessional and should be brought to the attention of the administration.

Yes, we'll all deal with difficult people in life, and sometimes part of "dealing with them" is making sure things are dealt with.

She has a responsibility to have a relationship with those kids that is not a distraction that interferes with their ability to learn what she's supposed to be teaching. If she has created a hostile environment their ability to learn in her classroom will be diminished in a big way.

It's one thing to not get the "fun" teacher. It's quite another to be put in the position your son is in.

ITA even though she is the teacher she still needs to be respectful to her students and it doesn't sound like she is. Have other parents had the same experiences?

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I get a phone call a day from other parents asking how my son is doing because their child is doing poorly. My son has no choice with her I think it is a good lesson to have a teacher like this. He does understand the concepts in her class because we are re-teaching everything. So next year he will be fine. I did find out that she is currently on probation with the school system. So we will see. I will most certainly bring this to the attention of the principal and let it go from there. I am just really disappointed in her behavior. All year I have been sticking up for her and now I see the rumors may be true.

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I'd really be interested in the outcome of this. I would make sure you print out the page from the web site so the administration could see exactly what you are talking about in black & white.

This should be brought to the attention of the principal/admin of your school. I would not demand anything but would let them know that you wanted them to be aware of this and then the ball is in theri court. Just tell your son to keep his nose clean and buckle down. Summer is not that far away.

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Is she on probation because she is a new teacher or for a disciplinary action. That may very well make a difference in how they would handle a requested meeting.

I agree with the other posters who suggest requesting a meeting with the administration, then attending the meeting as unemotionally as you can....just the facts....and put the ball in their court. That will put them on notice that you are on top of things and watching for the outcome.

Good luck!

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If it is found to be the teachers fault that the kids are getting low grades because of her behavior have the school make a notation on your childs records to that effect.
A similar thing happened to someone I know and it was questioned when he applied to the police department. Luckily for him there was a notation on everyone in the classes records that the teacher was found to be having mental problems at the time.

She is on probation for non-performance. I did take toonces advice and printed everything out just in case I may need it. I see the teachers are able to edit their responses and I think she really needs to . I called the administration and they were unaware that this site even exists. I asked them to go there and look at what was being said. They asked if I wanted a phone call back about what they are going to do and I told them no I trust you will do what needs to be done. We have a group of 65 parents who will be attending the next board meeting about this teacher because of our childrens grades. Mind you she only has 120 students in total so more than half the parents are going to be there. I think that will tell the board we are serious and something needs to be done. I don't want to get someone fired. But this is my kids education and you only get 6th grade math one time!

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I have to disagree about not taking the child out of the situation. I had this with my ds in 1st grade. He went to school upset every morning. I, at first, did just like the original poster - I put it off to my child and the teacher just not seeing eye to eye. But things got worse and worse. I'd talk to teacher, she'd joke things off - be better for a week and then start all over. I'm talking about things like tellling ds she hoped he'd get susupended so he wouldn't be in her class - punishing him for 'talking' when in fact another child was talking to him - and my ds told her that it was John who was talking and her response was "well, you were listening, it's the same thing" but the talker was not reprimanded. (YES, I did confron the teacher about this and she admitted she did it, and said "maybe" she was wrong" I went to the principal in late October, and again in December. I kept telling myself and ds that there would always be people we didn't necessarily get along with, and we would work it out. But the longer it went on, the worse it became. DS has acid reflux anyway, and he would be so nervous about her in class that he would throw up - and I would go to work every day in knots not knowing what she was doing/saying to him. Finally, in March - while lining up in the hall for lunch - a kid two people behind my ds push him, which made him push into a girl in front of him - and you guessed it - my ds was sent to the office for the incident - no one else. I had had it. So I called the principal again - and she agreed that it was enough. She had talked to the teacher several times also. So she moved my ds to another classroom on the other side of the school and we ended the last 7 weeks of school on a great note. If I had it to do again - I would have asked to have him moved in October - but as it was, at least we didn't end on a bad note and end up worrying all summer about the next year. Turns out, a week after ds moved classrooms - teacher suddenly decides to retire. Then I started getting stories from many parents about how she had done the same thing when their child was in her class - apparently she picked out one or two students a year to torture.

Bottom line, - if your child's usual behavior/grades are suddenly different and he says there is a teacher conflict - get to the bottom of it asap. If it means changing classes, at this point, I think you've shown your child that you both have tried - it is not giving up - it is doing the right thing.

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