My son is 6 and attends Oakview Elementary School in High Point. Every day I pick him up in the car rider line and we have only had problems with him a few times this year. However, there is one teacher who is hateful to my son and I any time she has some kind of problem handling my son. You can just read the hate and displeasure with her job all over her face. I'm going to restrain myself and not use her name in this blog....that's not how I roll..LOL.
Previously she has come up to my car and talked to me in a very hateful manner about my son acting up in the car rider line. Probably been all total about 4 times this year. The very first of the year he was sent to the office and I wrote a letter to the principle complaining about having two toddlers in the car and having to drag them out of the car and up to the principles office - just because one teacher is crabby and can't handle my kid.
I feel it is unfair that I have to sit in a long line, only to get to the front and find out my son is in the office. They call me for everything else, can they not call me to come out of the car line so I can get my child and leave? I'm a big fan of saving time and gas.
Today, I had to get my child from the office, which required me to park my car and get my toddlers out...one is sick, and tote them up a hill to the office. Only because that teacher couldn't deal with my son for a few minutes until I arrived. I am very upset about this because I think that they are punishing me, the parent and not the child. My son could care less that he was sent to the office.
I did address the teacher before I left the school today. She is an old hateful coot who needs to retire if she can't deal with active children. IMHO teachers who can't deal with the over-active children as well as the calm children shouldn't be teachers. I choose not to medicate my child and I choose to put the responsibility on the school system to come up with ways to work around my child's active nature.
My son has been doing great this year with his current teacher. She is so awesome that I will mention her by name, She is Maggie Eades. Any kid in her class is lucky to have such a wonderful teacher. Such a big change from last year, like night and day.
My son was expelled from Kindegarten last year, which was really upsetting for our family. It was a terrible year and his teachers just sent him to the office every time they couldn't deal with him. This year, he hasn't been sent to the office by his regular teacher even one time. The only two times I know he's been to the office is when this older teacher with the bad attitude (and yes I know her name), is having a bad day and cannot deal with him.
I'm probably going to hear from someone the school after this afternoon, I confronted the teacher about how she is dealing with my son and told her I didn't appreciate it. I'm sure my disgust with her was written all over my face. I am also writing another letter to the principle because of the attitude issue. You can talk to me without talking down to me, I happen to be 36 years old and not a kid. I have been through way more than one person should go through in these past few years and I guess it has made me realize that I don't have to let people run all over me or my kids.
Another thing is...they don't want me to bring up that innappropriate homework assignment that was sent home last year by my son's teacher because they weren't paying attention when it was being prepared. I think I kept a copy of it. It was disturbing. If they get me mad enough I might have to let that cat out of the bag.
Anyway, I probably will have opened Pandora's Box here, but I am just irritated with people who refuse to deal with kids who may be ADHD or have other issues. These children have physical reasons why they are over-active and impulsive and they sometimes have a hard time controlling it. I'm sure if a mentally handicapped student were in the hall making all kinds of noises and movements people would totally ignore him or her. They would be treated with love and not like an inconvenience.
Anyone out there have any issues with this school? I am just wondering. I might be overreacting, but my husband has also mentioned that this same teacher in the car rider line was hateful to him too.
By the way I have ADD and OCD and don't talk to me about teachers being fair to all kids. I remember specifically certain teachers being very ugly to me because I was different or learned differently from other children.
It seems like after all these years nothing has changed.
Spring fever is hitting me early this year. I saw a Bradford Pear tree in full bloom yesterday and just seeing the flowers brightened my whole day. I'm a SAHM, and during the winter months it is just depressing when you stay inside more because of it being cold or windy. The little kids get grumpy and they are bored. Gas is expensive so mommy field trips are at an all time low. Don't get me started about all the sick germs that have been going around this year. The kids have constantly battled colds and we had one scary bout of strep throat with my six year old.
Sadly, I also lost my grandmother back in February...so I welcome the renewal of spring, which reminds me of life as being about beginnings as well as those sad endings, which are also new beginnings on another level.
I'm looking forward to being more active again too, going on some camping trips, kayaking, fishing at the lake, going to the playground....and not having to worry about catching the flu wherever we go.
It is rainy and yucky today, but praise be for spring arriving very very soon.
After seeing the story about the baby that was born at 21/22 weeks and weighed about 9 ounces, I felt compelled to write this blog. You see, I know a lot about micro-preemie babies because in 2005 I had my son Zachary at 25 weeks. He weighed a little over a pound when he was born and actually lost weight down to about a pound after losing fluid in the hospital.
It is a Miracle that these babies can survive and if you have ever been to Brenner Children's Hospital or Forsyth's NICU you have been a witness to the miracles that happen there. I could actually feel the angels around me while I sat with my little baby boy daily and watched him hang on for dear life.
I'm so glad for the girl who had the precious little baby girl a few weeks ago, and her baby is still hanging in there after a few weeks with signs of improvement and perhaps she will leave the hospital as we did in October 2005. With a happy healthy baby boy who was given little chance of survival and is now very healthy with no sign of any issues related to his prematurity.
Thanks from my family to the wonderful doctors and nurses at HPRHS where my son was born and to the whole NICU staff at Brenner's Children's hospital where he stayed for the first three+ months of his life. Miracles do happen !!!
I'm not shocked but a little concerned that every so often someone says, "Hey we have a problem with prescription drugs and our kids." Then everyone acts as if this is the first time that they have heard this message coming out. Wake up folks, this has been going on for a very long time but people have turned their heads and acted like it wasn't really a problem. Then someone dies or OD's, the family or the law enforcement agency gets on tv and we all talk about how bad prescription drugs are. Next week, something else comes along to destract our attention and we just don't think about it for a while. Am I right here?
The truth about prescription drugs is they are convenient or easy to get and don't have the social stigmas that comes with say, heroin or meth. Also, they are BIG business in America. The drug companies want you to be dependent on their pills. They don't care if you are an adult or a teenager. If you get addicted and have to go to re-hab, well they have other pills that you can take to help with whatever you were self-medicating for. So you see, the "don't worry be happy" mentality kicks in and everyone feels better. Especially the drug company's CFO's pocketbooks.
Parents do need to be more vigilant in keeping their own prescriptions out of reach. Here's a hint. Don't keep them in the medicine cabinet. Duh!!!
