On the home front
It has been a super duper challenging week with inspectorates at work scrutinising every nook and cranny. They have not bothered me at all, for which I am ever grateful, but they had a field time knocking us to the ground - or so they hoped. We are undefeated, instead challenged to rise above it all and better ourselves. ( LOL - all hype)
BUT...
on the home front, my 12-year-old has been the victim of a bullying teacher. Her ego is so huge that she has turned her attention on him for daring to question her proficiency and capabilities as an English teacher. My son has a wide vocabulary and during the mid-year exam, was penalised for answering some questions wrongly. This wrong is according to the teacher. When questioned, he explained his choices of answers rationally and inadvertently caused her to feel embarrassed in front of the class. This was the beginning of the episode.
Although he had apologised for embarrassing her, she has turned all her attention on him and has been constantly picking on him for misdemeanours. The climax was when he was caught talking during some work time and was accused of saying the F word at her. He denies this incident even happened but was forced to do his work on the floor, stripped of his prefect's tie (for which I had paid) and then suspended from duty for a week.
All this decided by hers truly. No trial, no defence, she is judge and jury.
As if this is not enough, she gets witnesses in the form of the head prefect and asst head prefect (who are seated far away) to testify that he had mouthed the F word. Didn't she accuse him of saying it? Now it is mouthed? Did he even whisper it? She would surely have heard that too.
Where are the parents in all this - i hear you ask.
Well, we took the non-confrontational approach. We talked to the PK1, the prefect teacher and his class teacher. The first was completely unaware. The second and third have never had any problems with my son. They are just as shocked but seemed reluctant to fight the English teacher who is also the Head of Discipline.
Before any other step can be taken, the English teacher storms into his class during Science and promptly announces that he is unfit to continue as a prefect and should be removed completely. Then she tries to manipulate the class to agree with her that he had mouthed the F word. Children at 12 will attest to anything when coerced by the discipline teacher, don't you think? After all who would want to mess with an unreasonable dragon? SO the half that had full view of his BACK agreed that he had mouthed the F word. Super vision!
And to further antagonise the situation, she spews out the fact that on open day, my husband had walked past her without even confronting her - as if to say we are too afraid of her.
Her ego started this all. And we all know pride comes before a fall. How is she going to face the class when my son is reinstated as a prefect? How will she be able to stand tall in front of the class after this incident?
I am a teacher. I know no good will come out of this situation, whoever wins or loses. What more will she inflict on my son? What about my daughter who may one day pass under her nose?
Let us pray for grace.
BUT...
on the home front, my 12-year-old has been the victim of a bullying teacher. Her ego is so huge that she has turned her attention on him for daring to question her proficiency and capabilities as an English teacher. My son has a wide vocabulary and during the mid-year exam, was penalised for answering some questions wrongly. This wrong is according to the teacher. When questioned, he explained his choices of answers rationally and inadvertently caused her to feel embarrassed in front of the class. This was the beginning of the episode.
Although he had apologised for embarrassing her, she has turned all her attention on him and has been constantly picking on him for misdemeanours. The climax was when he was caught talking during some work time and was accused of saying the F word at her. He denies this incident even happened but was forced to do his work on the floor, stripped of his prefect's tie (for which I had paid) and then suspended from duty for a week.
All this decided by hers truly. No trial, no defence, she is judge and jury.
As if this is not enough, she gets witnesses in the form of the head prefect and asst head prefect (who are seated far away) to testify that he had mouthed the F word. Didn't she accuse him of saying it? Now it is mouthed? Did he even whisper it? She would surely have heard that too.
Where are the parents in all this - i hear you ask.
Well, we took the non-confrontational approach. We talked to the PK1, the prefect teacher and his class teacher. The first was completely unaware. The second and third have never had any problems with my son. They are just as shocked but seemed reluctant to fight the English teacher who is also the Head of Discipline.
Before any other step can be taken, the English teacher storms into his class during Science and promptly announces that he is unfit to continue as a prefect and should be removed completely. Then she tries to manipulate the class to agree with her that he had mouthed the F word. Children at 12 will attest to anything when coerced by the discipline teacher, don't you think? After all who would want to mess with an unreasonable dragon? SO the half that had full view of his BACK agreed that he had mouthed the F word. Super vision!
And to further antagonise the situation, she spews out the fact that on open day, my husband had walked past her without even confronting her - as if to say we are too afraid of her.
Her ego started this all. And we all know pride comes before a fall. How is she going to face the class when my son is reinstated as a prefect? How will she be able to stand tall in front of the class after this incident?
I am a teacher. I know no good will come out of this situation, whoever wins or loses. What more will she inflict on my son? What about my daughter who may one day pass under her nose?
Let us pray for grace.
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