With your children so young you have a lot of this kind of stuff in your future. I have worked for the school system for the last 4 years as well as having a 12 and 14 year old and have seen it ALL!!!! Good teachers and the bad teachers....I really believe that if you are to survive their schooling the next 20 years you have to handle the situations. I ALWAYS hold my kids accountable for any issues unless they can prove to me that situation is under their control.....and then I let them handle certain things themselves and if no resolve then I get involved....it teachers them accountablitly for their actions (which I think most kids dont get these days). I started this from kindergarten on.... granted somethings are beyond their control and do need parent back up....
as for your daughter I think you did a great job by having her getting caught up in one night cause obvioulsy she didn't do the work when she needed to and by showing her how hard it is to get caught was a valuable lesson. But I do think that since this was not a homework issue and an inside school issue that you need to talk to the teacher....the teacher was slacking on her responsibilites by not seeing this work was not getting done....please don't ever go to the principal unless issues with the teacher are unresolvable....it causes great problems down the road.....(a valuable lesson "I" have learned) Good luck with everything.... |