Last Friday Lefty had a project due... he was supposed to make a Leprechaun Trap. Teacher promised a "Big Prize to the person who's trap catches the Leprechaun."
So Lefty worked hard on his trap for several days. It turned out quite nice (I thought). We turned it in on Friday of last week. The kids all set the traps around the room in hopes they would catch the Leprechaun. Keep in mind this is a Kindergarten class so they were all hopeful they would win the big prize!
Monday morning rolled around and when the kids got to class they were met with a big surprise! The Leprechaun trashed the room -- papers all over the floor, puzzles dumped, glitter on the floor and all their name cards turned to red (it is a discipline system she uses, they all start out on green, then if they are bad she flips their name to yellow, then orange and if the behavior keeps up then she switches the name to red and they stay on red until the following day.) The Leprechaun also wrote a note on the board that read "hee hee hee you can never catch me!"
So, the teacher made all the kids clean up the room, which in turn made them miss the morning center time (very upsetting to my son!) and NO ONE got a prize because they didn't catch the Leprechaun.
I went marching in there on Tuesday very upset. She looked at me like she always looks at me.... like I am stupid! I told her I didn't think it was right that they were punished (in a sense) for not building a good enough trap and no one got a prize. She said she in fact gave them all little chocolates as a prize. I told her that, clearly, my son did not understand that the chocolates were a prize and he was very upset by the whole day.
She tried blaming me -- since I was out of town over the weekend he was feeling lonely and was "yanking the sympathy chain".
I told her that I still totally disagreed with the way things were handled and she brushed me off saying she would talk to my son and explain things.
Lefty told me last night that she did in fact talk to him but told him that "mommy must have been confused"
I have decided I have done enough talking to the teacher (remember the whole lunchable incident?) and it is time to go to the principal.
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4 comments:
That sucks that you have a bad teacher to deal with. But I agree...go to the principal. I would have come unglued if she blamed me for something that happened in her classroom! Are you kidding me?! Is she a new teacher? Luckily Ciara has an awesome teacher, and she will have her again next year.
What's with the house? Did you get it? Will the kids have a new school???
What an idiot! She should know better than to promise a prize and then make the kids clean up the room. That doesn't sound like a fun morning!
I am marching down to the office with you, that is just wrong that the kids have to clean that up. I say we parents clean the room, glitter, glue, etc and dump it on the teachers car (hubby said that's wrong though). That is not right at all and confusing to the kids. Poor guys.
Oh, wow. I definitely agree with you. I hate confrontation, though, but her attitude when you confronted her about the situation would have pushed me over the edge... Good luck.
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