Saturday, November 15, 2008
Contacting Parent Epiphany, Repost
I have this one student who is a constant disruption in class. I have contacted his mother several times via e-mail only. What surprises me is when she asked me what she should do about her child. I am a parent, but I think that to give her any advice about how to raise her child is beyond what I should be doing as teacher so I referred her to the school counselor. I was dumb founded by this question until I met her during a conference. She looked like she could have been the student’s sister. The clichés “kids having kids” and “early parenthood” that I have heard before meant nothing to me until I met this woman. One thing about being a teacher is you get to see first hand a lot of society’s ills. It gets to a point sometimes that when I am contacting a parent, I hesitate fearing what I might find out! But it must be done because our school policy is to contact the parents at least once a month and make a note of it in a contact log. I rarely have any success with these calls, generally the student causes enough problems until they have to leave.
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I completely understand. That same situation happened to me, I was contacting this parent about her son who was being an everyday occurance. She was trying and then she told me she had eight kids and just didn't have time to deal with this type of problem at the moment I was blown away. I did the same and contacted the school councilor who in turn called and got aide and assistance for her. After which she attended meetings and became more active in her sons schooling. Maybe you might check into the same and see if the school system could contact some type of aide program to assist her and help. Some just need to time to grow up and become more responcible and mature but with all of the programs out there it makes that transistion eaiser.
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