My son is in preschool. He just turned 5 years old, so most of the preschool year so far he was just 4.
He has two teachers. One of them seems to like him a lot and is always enjoyable when she walks him to the car. We have to line up our cars, and a teacher brings the kids to the car so the parent can place them in their car seat.
The other teacher is a different story, and I actually hate when she is the one who walks my son to the car which is not very often which is probably a good thing for both of us.
Everytime she walks him out she feels the need to complain about him to me. I wouldn't have a problem if this was occasional but this is every darn time she walks him to the car. The things she complains about are so stupid too, they are just typical things 4 or 5 year olds would do. Like yesterday he had difficulty putting his coat on. He put it on upside down and tried to zip it. I have 3 kids and was a girl scout leader of young girls and even in kindergarten kids do that once in a while. Was it really worth bringing it up to me like he was being bad or something.
Last time she walked him to the car she lectured me about him not having a hat and gloves. I reached in to his pocket and pulled a glove out of each of the pockets, and pulled the hat from his back pack. She then kind of barked at my son and said, "You told me you didn't have any gloves, or a hat." He did lose one of his gloves earlier in the week but I replaced the gloves, but he did not realize that, but hello lady, he is 5 check his pockets and back pack, don't take his word for it, and then yell at me.
Earlier in the year she told me she thought he was behind because he was not writing his name all on one line. This is something both of my other kids did as well (who are both straight A students by the way). A young child who is just learning to write their name doesn't understand it should all be on one line until you tell them. They get to the end of the writing space and try to finish their name any where they can. I sat down with him that night and explained he had to write his name smaller so he could fit it all on one line. No problem he got the concept immediately and has never done it again. He now writes his name beautifully. Which leads me to think she made an assumption about him without telling him the right way to do it.
There have just been several little things like that, little things that are not that big of a deal that she acts like they are huge deals. My son is a very smart, and outgoing little boy. I guess these ltttle things wouldn't bother me as much when she tells them to me if it wasn't for the tone she uses, and the fact that she never says anything positive about him. Here she is telling me all these stupid tiny little bady things against my precious son and not saying anything good about him, that just gets to me and really bothers me.
I know what he is capable of. I also know he is a good little boy. If you tell him to do things he listens. I almost never even have to reprimand him. He is highly independent, but very outgoing. Sure he may get a little excited sometimes, but I have to think that, that is fairly normal, and I would be more concerned about kids that don't get excited about things or don't come to school happy and excited everyday.
I am just asking for a little sugar with the salt. Don't constantly be-rate my child without sometimes telling me about something good that he has done or does.


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Good Luck~
She may be the sort of person who never accepts blame, is never wrong and always blames others. Not the right person to be teaching little kids!
Does it bother your son? If he mentions feeling hurt, I'd speak to that teacher and/or go to administration. You might tell your son how proud your are of his behavior. Sometimes grownups say things rudely and he is polite even when grownups are not. He should be proud of himself.
You're right about the name writing. Preschoolers do not have well-developed small motor skills. It's normal. He can practice writing at home and let him use round tipped scissors to cut out the comics from the newspapers. Those things will help him develop his small motor skills. Good luck.
I had to lean to be a lioness for my kids. And no, I wasn't one of those moms whose kids never did any wrong. One of them had lots of problems in school and it wasn't often the teacher's fault.
My daughter had a teacher in 2nd grade who made it clear she shouldn't be there just because she was young for her grade. She transferred in from a private school where she was doing great. That teacher ruined her. She even wanted to hold her back a year just because of her age even though academically she excelled. I had to fight to keep her with her classmates. It took my daughter many years to get her confidence back up in school after that teacher but she went on to get her Masters Degree.
I think Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) put it best ...
"When we were young and went to school
There were certain teacher who hurt the children any they could
By pouring their derision on everything we did,
Exposing every weakness ...
... But in town it was well known
When they went home at night
Their fat, psychopathic wives
Would thrash them
Within inches of their lives ... "
How miserable must this teacher's home life be.
I wouldn't let this go.
Nip it in the bud quick.
And the very fact that your child is smart is a reason that that particular teacher rips on him. She probably feels he needs to be knocked down a peg or two. Life will give us all enough hard knocks without someone unnecessarily adding to it.
Some people just should not teach. My first grade teacher was one of those. She was horrible to me, and I honestly wonder how the rest of my school "career" would have gone if I hadn't started first grade with her.
I do feel somewhat sorry for the teacher; she is obviously not happy with what she is doing and not interested in finding another way to do the job....but my recommendation here would be to meet with the administration as soon as possible. It may be that they have had other complaints. For the good of your son, this needs to be addressed. If you know any of the other parents, it might also be instructive to get their opinions...does she talk about their kids to them in the same way?
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
If that doesn't resolve it, I would ask around to see if any of the other parents or even the other teacher are having a problem with her as well. Maybe another parent has already complained to someone about this teacher. That would be good to know. In general, parents should stick together because there is strength in numbers.
you should vent at times
i'd ask for a confrence in private with the teacher to see what the issue