Teachers are often praised for being second mothers. In school, they are the #1 influence of our children. But, wherever we go we often hear stories about teachers whose behavior ranges from lousy to frightening. The most common are teachers who simply don't have skills to teach at their grade level. For instance, teachers on grade 1 should be at least be like the kindergarten teachers who have lots of patience on children. While, the least and the frightening behaviors of bully or worst abusive teachers that we sometimes see on TV or in the movies.
With social media, complaints about teachers become overwhelming too. Like last year, a mother of one student resorted to "Tulfo in Action" a famous local TV program with millions of following in YouTube and Facebook, complaining about her child's 55 year old teacher who according to her ridiculed the child and sent the child out of class. The teacher defended that this was just her way to discipline her students. Either way, I have mix feelings about this issue. While there are really few teachers who kept dragging their personal problems at school leaving the children vulnerable over displacement of the teacher's bad mood and temper, there are also teachers who transpires prudent judgement in disciplining their students.
So, I think parents will just have to hope that their child will get a teacher who cares enough about teaching, doing what their job expects them to be and displays more noble qualities to students. However, what should you do if your child is not so lucky on her/his teacher in school?
1. Speak directly to the teacher about your concern. The person that can answer your questions about the problem would only be the teacher concerned, so better to talk to her/him first. If you don't see improvement, schedule a meeting with the principal. And better to put your complaints in writing and attach any materials or proof - for example test papers checked incorrectly, denied projects etc.
2. Act immediately. Don't wait for another problem to arise before you complain. And don't wait until midway of the school year before you act on it. Chances are the principal or teacher will persuade you to hang in there till the end of the year. And your child will endure the rest of the year too with that teacher if it's not dealt with effectively.
3. Ask other parents if they are experiencing similar problems. Like that mother complaining in "Tulfo in Action," I think it would be better for her to ask other parents if their child got mistreated by that same teacher too. If that happened in consensus, parents can join forces to lodge a complain against that teacher to the principal to give the necessary sanction.
4. Insist on a transfer to another teacher if there is no improvement. A very common solution principals would provide to parents complaining about teachers would usually be giving Mr. So-and-so a chance, and the teacher will be sent for training in how to control a class. But, as a parent, if you think your child needs a better teacher right now, you would opt to transfer your child to another teacher.
As parents or guardians we should be an advocate for our children, no one else will be. So, if worst comes to worst, and your predicament regarding a problematic teacher never improves go over your documentation and channel to proper authorities to address it.
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Im scrolling and i saw these, for me the best thing to do is the parents should know their children better because a based on my experience the students behavior in school are far different from their home, for example maraming mga studyante na sobrabg tigas ng ulo at di nakikinig kapag nasa bahay pero kapag nasa skul ay nakikinig at mabait naman vise versa, parents are the first teacher so if they are really monitoring their child then their will be no problem at all, at wala din tayong magagwa kung ang usnag magulng ay komsintidor at hindi inaalam ang huong kwento at basta na lambg susugod o amgrereklamo kung ang magulang ay ganyn ano na lamang ang anak, kaya nasa sa atin an rin siguro ito hindi lang din ako natuwa sa nanay na bigla na lamang nagpatulfo ng hindi man lamang nakakusap ang teacher ayun napahiya siya maging si raffy tulfo. We teachers are doing the best taht we can para lamang maturuan ang mga bata at hinuhubog dn ang pagiging mabuting mamamayan, kaya ako nakikinig ako ng mga kwento ng mga bata nglalaaan ako nga araw para sito na laht sila makapagbahagi at sa pamamagitan nito nalalaman ko kung bakit ganoon ang ipinapakita nila sa klase, wala naman siguring teacher na di marunong ngturo since dumaan naman sa madugi g oroseso bago makapasok o bago makpagtuto at kung minsan di maiiwansang magalit pero may rason naman t hindi basta nagagalit ng walng rason at kung sobra sobra na ang nagawa ng at nagahmgawa naming pagbuhatan ng kamay ng di namamalayan tai lang din naman kame pero inaayos naman agad kapag may ganitong sitwasyon minsan nasasabi ko na lamang sa sobrang Galit na din na kahit ipatanggal ako ibibigay ko ang lesensiya ko kasi iba na rin talaga ang mga kabataan ngayon.ayun sensiya kna nagkwento na ako dito😂 Pero sa totoo lang nagagalit kame pero dito mas natututonngbbt nag mgbigay respeto at makinig at hindi naman namin hahayaang na manaig ang takit s aluao nila kundi mananaig pa rin ang pagmamahalan bilang isang guro na pangalawang ina sa kanila.