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Help! I am a teacher at my own child's school. In fact, I am one of his "specials" teachers, so I actually teach my son a subject 3 times a week. Here in lies the problem...there is a kid in my son's class that has been somewhat of a problem (being disruptive in class, talking out of turn, trying to be the class clown, just being generally obnoxious). For my own son's sake (fear of reprisal) I have certainly tried to stop any disruption during class, but not made a huge deal out of it. Anyway, last week the kid was being particulary obnxious and made a pretty rude comment about my own son during class. I flashed the kid the infamous "teacher look" and left it at that. Later on (while I was still stewing about the whole incident) it occurred to me that if he had made the same remark about any other student, I would have sent him directly to the principal without a second thought... I had clearly not done so as a way to "protect" my own child.
What do you think I should do??? Should I report this incident to the administration and get them involved in this whole mess or just try to make the best of it and try to "grin and bear it" for the rest of the last 6 weeks of school???
I think that you, as a teacher, should handle it. When I was in school, it seemed the lazy teachers "wrote kids up." The good teachers, by the end of the year, managed to put a stop to it by the end of the year. Try different strategies to handle it between yourself and the child. Let your kid handle his problem by himself if needed, which where I grew up, doing onto him as he onto you.
I disagree...I always make every attempt to handle discipline issues within my classroom, but there are violations that should be "zero tolerance" and should be referred to school administrators - so it depends on how severe the comment actually was. My kids aren't often referred or "sent to the office"...so they know it's serious when I actually do resort to that. I will try everything else first - isolation within my classroom; time-out in another teacher's classroom; taking away priviledges like recess and free time; rewarding the rest of the class for good behavior; etc.
But there are teachers that over use the office referral. I wouldn't call them lazy teachers...probably more like fed-up teachers.
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