Could you please tell me about your experiances with your kids in school?

Question

its for an assignment for my parental involvement class at college

what i need to know is what has been your expierance with your child and their teachers .

your background.

if your child has any problems or dissabilities (like adhd or a learning disability or anything like that) and how that has affected your relationship with school.

what type of activities you are involved in with school if any.

what you wish that school provided in terms or support programs and involvement

Answer 1

Well, I am not a parent, but there was A LOT of gossip.  I would come home somedays and cry because of it.  I wish my school provided more common sense and logic classes.

I have no learning disabilities

Answer 2

if your child has any problems or dissabilities (like adhd or a learning disability or anything like that) and how that has affected your relationship with school.-well he goes to a special preschool for adhd so I am very thankful they are there and are helpful.

what type of activities you are involved in with school if any.none

what you wish that school provided in terms or support programs and involvement- he is 4 and the psychologist there isn't trained to help with that age group-

Answer 3

I am a very involved parent. I sign up for class trips and all sorts of after school help needed. I love to be able to be in the same environment and be around my child, even though often I am working with the other kids as well.

Answer 4

We had a bad kindergarden experience.  We were sooo excited.  My son is very sensitive to other people.  On the first day when we took the tour of the school, he started crying on the way home.  I pulled over and asked what was wrong.  He told me there was a lady washing the windows and he forgot to ask her name.  Sometimes I would pick him up from the after-school program and while the other kids were playing, he was talking to the janitor, trying to help him.  As first-time parents of a school-child, it was a whole new experience for us, too.  The teacher had sent home a note telling everyone to have spare clothes in their backpack "just in case."  My son had used his spare clothes several times because in the after school program, the playground they used was a long way from the building and he had a few accidents trying to make it inside.

The teacher had seen his spare clothes and one day when another child had an accident in class, she used my son's spare clothes for him.  That night my husband (now an ex) was livid.  The next day he called the school and talked to the principal, unknown to me, and ranted and raved, and left MY number at work as a callback number.  The poor teacher called me in tears and it took me a minute to catch on to what had happened.  I had to calm her down.  Of course, I didn't want underwear back that another child had worn.  But I wasn't concerned about the rest of the clothes, I would have prob done the same thing.  And I was sooooooo angry at hubby for putting me in this position.  My only concern was ---- what if my son had had an accident that afternoon and he didn't have spare clothes?  They would've had to call me from work and I was the parent that did what I was supposed to.

After that, I think the teacher took a dislike to my child.  She did a special profile on each child, spotlighting a different one each week.  She never did one on him.  So he never got his turn to have his pics on the bulletin board and have facts about him read aloud to the class.  I didn't know this until many years later, and my heart ached for him.  Also, his birthday is in November and she would playfully spank the kids and give them "a pinch to grow an inch" and he told me years later that she REALLY pinched him.  This has had the same impact on him as someone who was sexually assualted.

We have also had great teachers, though.  In fourth grade, he had a teacher who went back to school to teach after her kids had left home.  She was very patient and loving with the kids.  She played the song "I believe I can fly" as her theme song and told the kids she believed in them and that they could do anything.  She was full of positive messages and anytime a parent got involved in anyway, she was thrilled.  We helped her throw pizza parties.  When our son had straight a's for an entire year (1/2 way thru 3rd and 1/2 way thru 4th), we threw a family party at a restaurant and she came.  My son still talks about her.

My son is borderline gifted and gets bored easily.  He is a jr in high school, but only needs 1.5 credits to graduate, so he plans to do that in summer school and move on to college in the fall.  He speaks 3 languages and plays 4 musical instruments.  I have some college but no degree and am currently physically disabled due to cancer after a promising corporate career.  My ex (son's father) has an anxiety problem and dropped out of high school at 17.  He is a very dependent person and has a severe learning disorder.

Another thing that happened at school----my son fell at recess.  A heavy girl was runnig after him and fell on top of him.  He lost consciousness for a few seconds but the kids didn't realize it.  He said it stung pretty bad and he asked for a teacher.  One of the kids went to get the teacher, but she wouldn't come (this was 6th gr)  She said if he needed her, he would come to her.  The teachers at this school sit together and talk at recess instead of watching the kids.  When he got home and was telling me what happened, I realized he had lost time and took him to the dr.  He had a mild concussion.  When we went to the school, I talked to the principal and the only thing any of them were concerned about was saving their a**.  Liability.  Sticking together.  I just wanted them to change their recess policy.  but they wouldn't.

I also hate that we can't celebrate Christmas, etc.  But don't get me started on that.......