This week I realized that one of my students has not been in class since last Thursday, so I decided to call his mother on her cell phone on Wednesday. When I asked for her son, her reply was " he was in jail and he is in court as we speak". I gave her my cell number and asked her to call me, to date she has not called me. Do you think I should call her?
I think you should talk to your school counselor, and ask him/her to follow up with this student. If the counselor has been in touch with this student, ask the counselor how/if you should contact the student's mother. That's my 2 cents worth.
ReplyDeleteI will agree with you Jesse. I also feel that as a teacher and a parent. I would want to know what's going on with the student and why is he in jail. We just cannot standby and wait on the result to come to us. Let be the adult in this matter and do what we can to help this child.
ReplyDeleteIt was no real shock, but I had 2 kids who actually ended up going to the Tribunal, and loosing their right to a free education in the state of GA! What was a shock was to learn that those rights could actually be removed! It became evident that these kids had major problems way beyond the disturbances cause in my classes...
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