From: mpb@troy.uucp (22161-bunz)
Subject: Re: Teacher problem in public school system
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 16:28:38 GMT

In article <168794174.O1ADAMS@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, O1ADAMS@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Debbie Adams) writes:
> I have a child through Children Services Board that I have temporary custody
> of (and I'm in the process of obtaining legal custody of) who is having a
> problem in school with one of her teachers.  The teacher seems to find any
> and every reason to give her D's and F's and never gives this child any
> kind of respect.  I must explain some history regarding this teacher first.
>  
> Three years ago my son had this teacher and there was a personality clash.
> She did not like my son because she said he would not apply himself.  My
> son was receiving D's and F's from her.  He ended up transferring to another
> school and received A's and B's for the same class.  (By the way this teacher
> teaches Honors English and Speech.) The very next year my daughter had the
> same teacher.  She asked my daughter if my son was her brother and she said
> yes.  From that day on my daughter had nothing but problems with this teacher.
> My daughter was an honor student getting A's and B's in all of her classes
> except this one.  She received D's and F's in this class.  She taught the
> class about ethnic slurs and stated that she felt Jungle Bunnies was very cute
> and funny.  My daughter told her she didn't feel that was cute nor funny.  She
> told me that my daughter had a very serious attitude problem.  After several
> more problems I had a conference with the principal, the teacher and my husband
> and the outcome was that the principal felt I should report her to the
> Board of Education because after making all the teachers fill out progress
> reports on my daughter, she refused to do so.  All of her other teachers gave
> her very high citizenship marks and this teacher refused to fill it out at all.
> When the principal told her she must fill it out she gave her very low marks
> for citizenship.  I finally went to the Board of Education and sent several
> letters regarding her conduct.  But, by then my daughter was ready to graduate.
>  
> Now my youngest daughter has her and so does my daughter that I'm obtaining
> custody of.  She has already started giving them problems.  I need to do
> something before it gets too far into the school year.  Does anyone have
> any solutions legal or otherwise?  I'm afraid my daughters will suffer with
> their grades if I don't do something soon.
>  
> By the way, my adopted daughter gave a speech that we (my family) all helped
> her with from an article out of the newspaper and she gave her an F because
> she said she was protesting.  This was the day after open house.  Open house
> was the day that this teacher found out that I had guardianship of my
> soon to be adopted daughter.

If there are two teachers that teach the subject, you should be able to
get the school to give your daughter to the other teacher.  That should
be simple enough, and you should be able to verify the fact that there
have been problems between the teacher and your children before, so the
school should go along with your request.  If this is the only teacher
for the subject, I'd be tempted to try another subject.

In the mean time, I'd try to get the teacher out of the school anyway
I could, from the information provided above, anyone should be able to
tell that something isn't right - the child is doing well in EVERY
OTHER class and gets along OK, but not in this one class, and you
can show this with multiple children, what more could they what you
to show.

Marc

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