u/johnthedaleman

Anyone else have one? I found it in my Grandmas abandoned house. I assume it was my grandfathers.

It’s in perfect condition due to being in the case for all this time. The case is big and boxy, even has the manual, along with a cleaning tool inside it. I took it to show my middle school students and they loved it! I bought ribbon for it obv. It’s just simply beautiful.

Was curious if anyone else has one? Or is there anything I should know about it.

Hi Parents name,

This is Mr. {My name}. I am {kids name} social studies teacher. I am so terribly sorry to send you this on a weekend, I hope you don’t mind. I wouldn’t have contacted you if I didn’t think it was important.

I wanted to take a moment to reach out to you about {child’s name} and inform you that I had to refer {child’s name} to the Principal for behavioral issues. I’d first like to start off with that {child’s name} brings an enthusiasm to our class and has historically gotten along with his peers in my class. He is always good about doing his work and contributing in class with relevant responses during lectures.

Although, over the last month, many days, {child’s name} has garnered a bit of a disrespectful attitude and it can cause disruptions. I don't want to discourage his positive contributions because I believe that it does foster creativity/helps him, but I wanted to inform you on the synopsis of things. The only reason I’m contacting you right now is because of how he was Thursday.

The last few weeks he has started to be very disrespectful to me and a few of his classmates. I have had to get onto him about calling other students who have language issues “stupid/retarded”

He has started to make random racist jokes on a regular basis in front of class

Thursday, he told me “ You look like you play 5 nights at Epstein”

He has told me that I looked “mentally you know what” and proceeded to say “You’re just stupid bro”

He told me that I looked autistic

Finally, what truly broke the straw on the camels back, is that after he had said something very rude, I told him to take his ear bud out and he said something to the effect of “no can do lil bruh”. Then he proceeded to tell me that I had to let him have an ear bud in or he couldn’t be well behaved. I did send him to the office.

When I informed him that I would be messaging you, he told me that “she doesn’t care” and that he “truly doesn’t care” if I message you.

Anyway, I just wanted to inform you of all this. I don’t take what he says to me personally nor do I think that {child’s name} is this super bad kid haha. I don’t want him hurting other kids feelings because they have dyslexia or something similar though. He’s very smart, I think he’s acting like a middle school boy (as I was too at one time) but I think it’s important to keep him in check and let him know that this behavior can’t be tolerated as a whole in a normal society. Jokes are one thing but this is not that.

Take care!

EDIT: Thank you guys for the advice. I agree that this is too validating and not the most professional. I will be shortening it and making it sound more professional and concise. Feel free to leave any feedback or tips for a first year teacher (who never did student teaching or interacted with kids prior to teaching) Yes I know the original email is littered with punctuation errors and an incorrect idiom. I was very tired and it was late when I originally drafted that.

This post has allowed me to learn more about myself from your guys feedback than I have ever gotten from my boss. That’s a shame to be honest because I’m being entrusted with teaching the future generation.