My kids hates teacher
My child has come home all year regularly telling me that they hate their teacher, and they would prefer to be in the other class.
I as the adult have taken the tough stance and said we are all human and you just have to suck it up.
It is quite obvious that this teacher has favourites in the class, let’s call them Jack and Jill.
This has been going on all year but lately it been escalating here are some examples;
- the teacher gave certificates to every kid in the class, even the naughty kids, and my kid was the only one left out. The teacher was double checking that Jack and Jill got one??
- They did a writing task and the teacher asked the children to put up their hands if they wanted to share, my child put up her hand, every child that put up their hand got to share expect my child. Jack and Jill got to share first though.
- The teacher uses some randomiser to change seating every few weeks, there‘s few kids that never show up and it placed my child sitting alone at a desk, when the randomiser has Jack or Jill sitting alone the teacher overrides it and puts them together. My kid still sat alone for 2 weeks.
- My child and another child asked if they could do some highly sought after job in the classroom one week, the teacher said yes, and then when it was time to do the job she asked Jack and Jill.
- My child was doing artwork and the teacher asked rubbed out her drawing and the teacher redrew it, it was a Mother’s Day drawing and she rubbed out the eyes and lips and redrew them -my kid came home and put the artwork in the bin.
The above is just the last few weeks but there’s been complaints all year. Also i am not the only parent who is hearing complaints about Jack and Jill. Other parents are sick of hearing about Jack and Jill and think there should be some separation like picking Jack and Sam, or Jill and Joe to break it up.
Should I say something or will I look super petty. I should add that the school seems pretty toxic at the moment amongst the staff because of a new principal that some staff are chummy with and others are not. Edited to add: Jack and Jills parents are local well known prominent business owners/professionals in our local area so other parents think they get preferential treatment because of the teacher sucking up to the parent.
For reference this is a year 6 clas.