We made it through another school year. ZOOM it sure went fast. Hope loves school but complained A Lot that her teacher yelled all of the time. I really was not impressed with her teacher at all. Tymber had her for 5th grade and I was worried but had expectations she would be better with the younger kids. NOPE. There were many times Hope would call me and tell me she didn't feel good. This child usually doesn't like to miss school for anything so I knew on the days there were problems. I don't think there was a day the whole year Hope didn't come home telling me how "bad" her class was. To me this reflects bad on the teacher not the class. I also had issues with the other third grade teacher and math. Hope came home one day and told me they changed classes for math and people who didn't get the problems done in a specific amount of time or got them wrong had to do a walk of shame in front of the rest of the class. I SOOOO wasn't okay with this> Hope is an excellent math student to the point she tests way above her grade level and she loves math (not my child). But the whole walk of shame came off as bullying. Here the school is supposed to teach anti bullying and the teacher is making them do this? I don't think so. I called and complained and also complained about how much her teacher yells.
The funny thing is if you know me you know I am a HUGE advocate for teachers. Their classroom, their rules and very little appreciation for what they do. In all the years my kids have been in school i rarely say anything but could not let these two things go. The Walk of Shame stopped immediately, the yelling not so much but whatever. Hope never knew I was the one who called in just that some parent called and complained so they no longer did it.
Tymber had a rough rough year. 9th grade is super hard anyways because it is the first year of high school. I remember Autumn struggled with it too. Tym had severe anxiety we had to deal with that started funny enough as soon as high school started. We had to get her on anti depressants and put her in counseling. By the end of second trimester it was apparent she wasn't doing well in the environment so I chose to online school her and also send her to school because we all know Tymber is a social person despite the anxiety and needs her friends around her. Not sure online was the best option either because she doesn't have the self discipline she needs to do online schooling ( I say that as I write this blog and should be doing my own homework, oh the irony of it). Plus I online did math. HUGE mistake considering most of us here suck at math. Autumn had a great idea to hire her friend Katie as a tutor because she was in between semesters at BYUI. So that's just what I did. Katie has the patients of a saint and got Tymber through math, but then had the nerve to go back to college 3 weeks before trimester ended. We managed to get her through and she epically failed her final but the rest of her grade was good enough to pass math with a 63% good thing or she would have been taking it for a 3rd time. English she got a 70% in and that was her other online class. Then she went to school for seminary and aquatics. She is going to have to retake one Science class and is behind one math class.
We will see what a new school does for her I guess. It makes me a little sad we are leaving Blackfoot because she was accepted into the new High School charter school here and I think would thrive because the first year will only have Freshman and Sophomores with no more than 120 kids total. The rest of high school shall be interesting with her but she knows she has to finish school.
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