Posted: May 19, 2020 11:51 pm
aye, at the moment in the uk senior leaders & teachers are tearing their hair out about the whole 'return to school' thing....i've been talking with my head & different union members today and the general feeling is very much that of being thrown under a bus...
thinking as a teacher, i'd appreciate any parent coming to me, appreciating what i'd tried to do to keep things going and how hard it must have been; to have a conversation with you about how you & your son found it, doing school work in lockdown; and if you then asked if there was anything specifically you could do to assist his smooth transition back to full curriculum work...if the teacher's worth his salt, he'll appreciate how difficult it's been for you - lord knows we've had some tricky parents to deal with during this time but we do appreciate the position they must be coming from - the pressures of home learning, perhaps while working from home themselves, possible financial pressures etc...
as a senior leader, i'd appreciate the time you took to catch up with a member of my staff to see if there was anything you could do further to support your son's learning...
but then you know all this - the last thing anyone will need coming down from all of this is someone going off on one at us over something we've had very little control over (not that i'm inferring for a minute that you would...
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i don't know what parent/teacher relationships are like in nz (i would expect much better than some i've been witness to over here) but hopefully you can have that sort of conversation
thinking as a teacher, i'd appreciate any parent coming to me, appreciating what i'd tried to do to keep things going and how hard it must have been; to have a conversation with you about how you & your son found it, doing school work in lockdown; and if you then asked if there was anything specifically you could do to assist his smooth transition back to full curriculum work...if the teacher's worth his salt, he'll appreciate how difficult it's been for you - lord knows we've had some tricky parents to deal with during this time but we do appreciate the position they must be coming from - the pressures of home learning, perhaps while working from home themselves, possible financial pressures etc...
as a senior leader, i'd appreciate the time you took to catch up with a member of my staff to see if there was anything you could do further to support your son's learning...
but then you know all this - the last thing anyone will need coming down from all of this is someone going off on one at us over something we've had very little control over (not that i'm inferring for a minute that you would...
)i don't know what parent/teacher relationships are like in nz (i would expect much better than some i've been witness to over here) but hopefully you can have that sort of conversation