it's a personal rant but i just had to get it out somewhere...
i'm just too irritaed..
but i guess it's a job hazard that i have to deal with..
a mom keeps bugging me about his son's progress and keep wanting more and more
seriously, the son is not like the best student in the class....even my naughtiest student can sit down and study and copy notes...
but her son just simply cannot do that...her son most of the time will be just sitting there and staring into space and just load around....for me, at first i do tell him to copy notes and everything...keep reminding him..
but i have 43 students in the class, i cannot keep focusing on him only and ignore the rest...
his son doesn't hand in his stuff and even when it is handed in, when i give back, he doesn't file it in...
and she flies off ever so often, depending on the tutor...
i'm not blaming the tutor, i'm blaming the son...
the son isn't doing his work and the teacher gets blamed for it???
i gave the students study list and format of paper weeks ago, verbally and also notes...even printed them in detail...with questions and everything...and yet...last week, the mother emailed asking about format...
i did my part...the students can be my witness...if she don't believe me...
this is like the 2nd time that this has happened..she should bloody know that the problem is her son and not the teachers...
she thinks that her son is of the level of express student...but she's wrong...truth of the matter is..her son is weak..
if he has a tutor and the tutor is that good or for the matter her son is that good, the son would be scoring ad doing well...but NO, her son is failing and not doing well at all...even my naughty students are weak...they are actually doing better..much better...even if they are creating problems, in class, they do participate and ask questions and actually learn...but that precious son of hers? urgh!
i'm really tired of such parents really! now she ask for all the materials that have been gone through in class...i can provide the powerpoint slides (which have been uploaded to a portal which his son has total access by the way) and also notes and worksheets given in class and things that i go though in class...i write on the whiteboard questions and also facts and how to answer techniques....how on earth can i remember everything that i've taught in class???
and now she wants me to borrow a student's notebook so that HER son can catch up for the exams...
truth be told, i feel that in all this, she is not seeing that her son is at fault...in all this, her son doesn't have a bond with the class such that he himself cannot ask and study with his classmates...
my mom told me to be careful just in case the woman twist and turns her words and use my actions and sincerity just to demand justice for her precious son...
really...i'm just tired dealing with her...geography was supposed to be a fun subject...it was supposed to be a place where you learn and just gain facts and knowledge...
she expects it to be like a factory of just doing work and more work and just focusing on her precious son and ignoring the rest.
it's things like this that makes us not want to teach....it's things like this that make us give up on our students...
it's things like this that simply makes us become robot unfeeling people and not the educators who make an impact...
i really don't know...
seriously am giving it another 2 years before give up on this line...
year by year, it's really making me feel that it's not worth it anymore...
very unfortunate..but true...
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