[Jims5543]

Out of 6 teachers this year our son has 3 good ones the other 3 need to retire. They obviously do not like kids anymore.

My son just missed 2 days of school. Thurs. and Fri. last week he had a head cold and we kept him home.

Scool rules state its his responsibility to get his make up work. He forgot on Monday and we told him to get it in Tues.

He had until Wed. to get it made up. He forgot again Tues. My wife had pisked him up that day and when he said he forgot she paraded him back in to get it. 5 minutes after class let out the teachers were already in their cars on their way home.

My wife stormed to the front office and the secretary said"They have been here since 8 a.m." Like this was so horrible that they were there for 8 hours. I wish I had those hours.

The teachers post grades up online. They are supposed to do it daily. As a back up plan we could go online and get his assignments. No go, they were all 3-5 days behind.

So my son goes to class today and asks one of the crappy teachers for his missed work. The teacher immediatly snaps at him and tells him he missed his chance to make it up. Almost like she was keeping track of his time expiring. Instead of offering the work to him days ago (like my teachers did when I was his age) she almost seemed to take delight in giving him his Zeros.

So it seems to teachers can fall 3-5 days behind with their posting up the grades but my son has to be spot on with his asking for missed work.

I normally slam the kid for being forgetful. But I just cannot get past the fact that when I was in 7th grade my teachers would first, welcome me back from being sick (never happened with my son) and second give me my missed work to make up. (again, they seemed to be happy watching him miss his opportunity to make it up and get a zero)

My wife is furious. Trust me we know our boy is no angel but we can tell by his grades whch teachers give a crap (the young ones) and which ones are there to just bash his head in. (the older ones)

We can participate in a follow your child through school program. My wife is arraging to do it for a week solid and see if he does not do better. We already know he will be better behaved, although he is a polite kid BUT a kid none the less and is prone to silly boy stuff. But its the teachers we are more interested in, particularly 3 of them.

BTW- My son failed Math last year with a crappy old teacher. This year he has a young enthusiastic teacher and is getting a solid B. How do you figure that one? 1/2 his class failed last year (we could tell from summer school registration) and the teacher was fired, of course a lot of kids suffered from her behavior first.

Sorry for the long post.


/rant