How Do You Handle Teacher’s Complaints?
Child, Parenting, School-study May 13th, 2010“Monday is English examination day and he has problem constructing a sentence. Has problem with grammer, vocabulary, tenses…etc etc. He is poor in Mathematics too! And he is still very dreamy!”
Those words were from Keatkeat’s Teacher yesterday. We were not informed of any examinations at all.
So in a way, I thank her for the complains, ‘cos if it had not been that, then I would NEVER have known about the examination. *Wink*
So how do you handle Teacher’s Complaints? Its not all that bad, find the positive side of the complain and your heart will not be heavy. *smile*
Later did we found out that Keatkeat has double performance standard. What he can do at home, he cannot in school. This is something that I do not know how to improve unless I sit in school with him for a day (which is NOT allowed), to find out what made the difference.
Hhhmmm…… this is one puzzle yet to be solved.
May 13th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Hi Angeline,
You mean the school didn’t inform the parents about Exam timetable & expect parents to know it’s exam? I am speechless…
Hope you have enough time to revise his work for next week exam..all the best.
May 13th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Anthiea does not have exams nor common tests at all for the whole term 1 and term 2. So I still don’t know her standard.
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May 13th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Hey angeline.. my heart will surely have that sink… but my ideology will be working with him everyday at home.. with some plans already made for the day… regarding the double standards, i think talking to KK will be the only way out… n make him understand the practicalities in your own way :)
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May 14th, 2010 at 2:31 am
Astee,
this is the 2nd time they ‘c**k up’!!!
remember the first time?
they put 2 tests on the same day!
*faint*
May 14th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
U r right on handling the complaint positively. Otherwise, the heart sure sank deep bottom.
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May 15th, 2010 at 2:46 am
LOL… you are sure a positive mom! How come the school didn’t give an early notice of the assessment day? Unreasonable!! :p
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May 15th, 2010 at 3:20 am
Oh Alice,
tell me about it man!
*eyes rolled*
May 16th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
I’m surprise she said keatkeat is poor in Maths! and Exam and parents are not informed?! Since this is the 2nd time of such blur incident, maybe you should voice it out to the Principal!
May 19th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Hey angeline.. my heart will surely have that sink… but my ideology will be working with him everyday at home.. with some plans already made for the day… regarding the double standards, i think talking to KK will be the only way out… n make him understand the practicalities in your own way :)
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May 20th, 2010 at 6:27 am
it is not possible for schools not to inform parents about exams like CA AND SA. you must ask the teachers about it. They will give out letters to parents like what my school did and those topics that need to be studied. Did you miss the letter out?
You shd really voice out to principal.
As to teachers’ complaints, actually do treat them seriously. Teachers do not anyhow complain about a child unless the problem is serious, like it is interrupting the class or affecting the child himself. I do complain about the kids in my class too, but I am just trying to help them, as we will like parents to take note of what we observe about the kids, and correct the child in time. Also, don’t mind me being honest with u, for a p1 child, his results shd be Band 1 or Band 2 preferably, else it will get more difficult each year, so do revise more with keat. :) (hope u dun mind).
May 21st, 2010 at 10:55 am
kkf,
why would I mind? I love honesty above all else. *smile*
Remember? Keatkeat’s teacher is MY Primary one teacher too! So I know her well. She does not complain for the sake of complaining, its really for the well-being of my boy.
Nope! No letters were given about the CA and SA.
Had an appointment made with the teacher and principal on 26th May.
June 7th, 2010 at 7:06 am
then you shd form a parents complain group. hee. how about the rest of keat’s classmates? they did not complain about no letters given for CA and SA?
But one reason could be that the school is REALLY assessing the kids and don’t want to stress the parents and kids out by notifying you all of the dates, and then forcing you all to revise and revise and revise with the kids, so they never issue letters (but the marks shouldn’t be recorded in report books then).
June 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
kkf,
I like to complain alone. *giggle* don’t like to form a negativity group. *giggle*
surprisingly no parents knew about the exam till we got the report card on the 2nd meet the teacher’s session!
We were lucky to know because we needed to talk to the teacher about ‘other’ matters and she told us ‘out of convenience’.
If we didn’t go to her for the other matters, we would not have known, just like the other parents.
It was written in the report card and the grades would affect the final year results.
Seems like Keatkeat is in an unusual school…which errrmmm… happened to be my Primary School too. *giggle*