I was giving back some test my 3rd grade students had taken a week before while I was walking around the classroom. When I finished handing them out, I stood at the front of the classroom again when I saw Pilar (a brilliant,respectful, and lovely student) crying desperately. When I asked her what had happened she told me her mom would be really mad at her 8.50
Imagine my face... I didn't know how to console that poor little thing and, at the same time, I didn't know how to explain her that her mom was an absolutely ....................... woman (fill in the blank with the word that you think suits this woman better).
I felt bad, sad, speechless. I could see my student's worry and she really looked pale.
I got so angry I wrote a note to her mom telling her to come and talk to me -that talk will be next week-. So I've been thinking of all the things I want to tell her and to EXPLAIN her very respectfully :)
If you want to know what I told her... you will have to read my next week's post.
:P see u
POOR LITTLE GIRL! :(
ReplyDeleteParents seem not to know the damage they cause in their children when they behave like this. Do you want your child to be successful, to strive to give his/her best efforts? It's ok. But be careful! Parents sometimes want their children to do what they couldn't do in the past. That's not the best option.
I want to know what's next with this little girl's mom!
I feel really sorry for her! and I can imagine your face when you found out the reason for her crying! Now that I am a mother, I don't know what is the right proportion of the pressure you can put on a child in order to have the best score at school...I wish I knew what you are going to say to her mother (or father) at your meeting. I remember i had classmates at high school that went through the same situation wit their parents. Never happened to me though!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to read your nex post,
Fernanda
You made this very interesting, Nadine... Now we all want to know what's coming...
ReplyDeleteWhen I read what happened to you... I felt sorry for that little girl but, I also felt identified... Even today (that I'm supposed to be a big girl) I feel kind of under a certain kind of pressure as regards marks... It's like the "what did you do wrong?" comes before the "Congratulations! You did it great!"
I hope you can manage to talk to this mother and I really hope she not only listens to you but change her attitude towards her kid...
Hi Nadine, first of all I wanted to tell you that you´re excellent at creating suspense and to keep your audience´s interest. I will definitely read your next post. I want to know what happened with that mum. You know, once, it happened almost the same to me (the difference was that my little student did not cry) and I told her to tell her mother that WE Teachers LOVE 8s and that I was very proud of her. I don´t know whether she did it or not but at least she felt better!
ReplyDeleteWell, good luck with that mun, then!
I´ll be waiting for the news!
haha, I will be looking forward to see what you did Nanu. But what you have written is really a problem that we, as future teachers, will have to face. PARENTS. Such an easy word to learn but so difficult to deal with. They criticize us and our teaching methods but most of the times they tend to forget that apart from being teachers we also have to fulfill their roles.
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