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Case: Assistant Principal Parent
I have one student who has no motivation whatsoever. He is EBD and OBD, but his parents refuse to have him served. He does not care about his work, gets extremely angry when I try to help him, and just shrugs his shoulders when I show him what all these 0s are doing for his grade.
His father is an assistant principal in our county and constantly tries to belittle me. His son's grades are ALWAYS my fault. I need to break up the assignments for him. I need to make a checklist for him. I need to write down his assignments in his planner for him. I need to let him retake the test as many times as it takes. I need to give him new copies of the assignments and not penalize him for turning them in weeks late.
I give in to a lot of these because it is not worth the fight with the parent. The student is still not doing anything, though, even with all of these exceptions. It has even gotten to the point where the dad has asked me to start packing his bookbag for him.
The child is very smart. He is eight weeks away from finishing fourth grade. There is no reason I should be having to do all of this stuff for him, and it makes it extremely difficult because when I make these exceptions, they have to be done for the other students as well.
I have stopped giving in to a lot of them because I think it is ridiculous that this child is not willing to take any responsibility. I am bending over backwards, and he could not care less. It does not change anything... he still has not completed more than five assignments fully the entire year, which is in turn reflecting on his test scores.
Dad is livid, but I have had enough. He is constantly going to the administration about me and threatning to take it to the board, even though I have met all his demands and have spent more than my fair share of time with his child. It is not fair to me or the other students. I have tried everything with this child, including all the incentives the two of us could think of together.
Any suggestions?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
Have you tried talking to your principal? Or even the superintendent? Be sure you are documenting EVERYTHING. That is the biggest thing. If you have documentation of the things you have done to help this students, and the parent tries to say you haven't, then you have proof. That is in extremely hard situation you have been put in. The best advice I have is to document, document, document. Be sure that you are putting everything in writing. If you send notes home, copy them. If you have conversations, I would type an e-mail up and e-mail it to the parent and your administration and just say, here are the points we discussed. I know it seems like a lot, but documentation will save you. I had a EBD student in my class at the beginning of the year and I had to document everything in order for my SPED teacher to "believe" the things he was doing. |
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| Comments: Documenting everything is so important. It will probably help her save her job! And hopefully help the student as well. |
| Rated On: July 4, 2015 11:32 pm |
| Rated By: NaXeta |
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| Comments: Great solution. Documentation is important. |
| Rated On: October 3, 2015 9:22 pm |
| Rated By: aDuvej |
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| Comments: This is a great solution. |
| Rated On: October 16, 2015 4:46 pm |
| Rated By: uqeMeg |
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| Comments: Great idea. Document everything and take it to your prinicpal. I would do the same thing. |
| Rated On: October 17, 2015 6:09 pm |
| Rated By: qutehu |
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| Comments: Yes, documenting everything is key in this scenario. Great advice. |
| Rated On: October 18, 2015 6:06 pm |
| Rated By: ymuXyg |
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| Comments: Documenting everything good advice for this situation! |
| Rated On: October 19, 2015 4:08 pm |
| Rated By: XequMa |
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| Comments: if you don't have the documentation then they won't do anything. make sure you document everything! |
| Rated On: March 5, 2016 1:56 pm |
| Rated By: habyRa |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this. |
| Rated On: October 16, 2016 12:22 am |
| Rated By: junuTu |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, this is exactly what I would do. |
| Rated On: March 2, 2017 4:37 am |
| Rated By: ybabaJ |
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| Comments: This is a great solution. |
| Rated On: March 5, 2017 6:40 am |
| Rated By: Kelsey Lutzi |
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| Comments: great solution |
| Rated On: October 8, 2017 4:13 am |
| Rated By: Gapasa |
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| Comments: I agree! |
| Rated On: October 10, 2017 4:12 pm |
| Rated By: aNaMeJ |
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| Comments: I agree with the documentation point. It is crucial! |
| Rated On: February 19, 2019 11:54 pm |
| Rated By: dyBese |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this |
| Rated On: October 15, 2020 9:28 pm |
| Rated By: Angela Mitchell |
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