Grr.
For two weeks running, Emily’s told me that she read during art class. Apparently, they’re all working on self-portraits, and she finished hers, so she’s just been quietly reading instead. I feel certain that hers was completed in five minutes, and she opted not to include any detail or color, which would explain the time difference between her and her peers.
Loyal readers may recall this isn’t the first issue we’ve had with art class. And honestly, I could probably write it off if we hadn’t had these same issues in second grade. There was over a month where her answer was “I read” when I asked her what she did in art class. Her second-grade teacher had to have a talk with the art teacher about strategies to get her to not flip out or melt down.
I’m writing her regular teacher to see if a conference with the art teacher is in order. I get that the teacher has 20 little bodies to wrangle in that class, but if a child is having trouble, you can’t just shunt her to the side. If she has trouble with the assignment, she needs a modified assignment, not busywork.
That’s frustrating. Reminds me of when I was in elementary school and would finish my assignments before everyone – and instead of giving me more productive work to do, the teacher wanted me to have quiet time by myself. In the end, my mom got me a French tutor for my down time. Maybe it was the negativity of the experience, but I never retained much French. (Even though I am gifted with languages).
That’s frustrating. Reminds me of when I was in elementary school and would finish my assignments before everyone – and instead of giving me more productive work to do, the teacher wanted me to have quiet time by myself. In the end, my mom got me a French tutor for my down time. Maybe it was the negativity of the experience, but I never retained much French. (Even though I am gifted with languages).
Is this the same art teacher?
Is this the same art teacher?
Sure is.
Sure is.
Similar thing for me, only I read. I devoured tons of books. The teacher just didn’t want to deal with all of my “why?” questions so I was told to just sit there are read. It didn’t teach me to read after my work was finished, it taught me to read when I was bored. For the record…I didn’t stop reading in class while bored until some of my harder college classes. I also got real good at hiding the books if someone didn’t like me reading in their class.
Similar thing for me, only I read. I devoured tons of books. The teacher just didn’t want to deal with all of my “why?” questions so I was told to just sit there are read. It didn’t teach me to read after my work was finished, it taught me to read when I was bored. For the record…I didn’t stop reading in class while bored until some of my harder college classes. I also got real good at hiding the books if someone didn’t like me reading in their class.
Heh. I got sent to the office once when I was 13 for reading during English class. The teacher called on me to list the grammatical person pronouns. I got them all right, but I’d been reading so I didn’t know she wanted them in the usual “i,you, he/she/it, we, they” order. Mine were recited in the order I called them to mind.
Excuse me for having an intuitive understanding of the material that didn’t conform to your rules. Clearly that’s worth a trip to the principal’s office. Man, I hated that teacher.
Heh. I got sent to the office once when I was 13 for reading during English class. The teacher called on me to list the grammatical person pronouns. I got them all right, but I’d been reading so I didn’t know she wanted them in the usual “i,you, he/she/it, we, they” order. Mine were recited in the order I called them to mind.
Excuse me for having an intuitive understanding of the material that didn’t conform to your rules. Clearly that’s worth a trip to the principal’s office. Man, I hated that teacher.
That’s deplorable.
That’s deplorable.