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I try not to air my personal grievances here but with this I really need some help.
This is DS's second full week of school, he is in 6th grade, he has several teachers but the one we are having a problem with is his math teacher. Last week he told me he raised his hand to use the bathroom and she responded by saying "oh I thought you were raising your hand for something educational and you did not use the proper hand signal". WTH?! So then he waited a few moments and used the "proper signal" and she ignored him. He had to hold it for three more periods because the math class was four periods long, I believe a period is at least 20 minutes.
I went to the PTO meeting and asked if there were certain required hand signals and the teacher that was there said some teachers use them but they shouldn't be required and the principal was also taken aback. I thought maybe it was a one time thing and let it go.
Today he told me he raised his hand with the proper signal and she completely ignored him and he had to hold it for 40 minutes. She did let other kids go. When he told me this I told him the next time he has to go to just get up and leave and he said he would get written up and sent to the office, that's fine I said I would handle it if it came to that point. In the meantime I put a call into his doctor to see if I can get a note so that he can go when he needs to.
He just had a physical so it's not medical although we believe he has an immature bladder because he still wets the bed at night sometimes. This teacher really has me peeved but I'm afraid if I send an email it will be too emotional and then I don't want his whole year of math to suffer because we got off to a bad start but at the same time IMO she is way out of line.
This is DS's second full week of school, he is in 6th grade, he has several teachers but the one we are having a problem with is his math teacher. Last week he told me he raised his hand to use the bathroom and she responded by saying "oh I thought you were raising your hand for something educational and you did not use the proper hand signal". WTH?! So then he waited a few moments and used the "proper signal" and she ignored him. He had to hold it for three more periods because the math class was four periods long, I believe a period is at least 20 minutes.
I went to the PTO meeting and asked if there were certain required hand signals and the teacher that was there said some teachers use them but they shouldn't be required and the principal was also taken aback. I thought maybe it was a one time thing and let it go.
Today he told me he raised his hand with the proper signal and she completely ignored him and he had to hold it for 40 minutes. She did let other kids go. When he told me this I told him the next time he has to go to just get up and leave and he said he would get written up and sent to the office, that's fine I said I would handle it if it came to that point. In the meantime I put a call into his doctor to see if I can get a note so that he can go when he needs to.
He just had a physical so it's not medical although we believe he has an immature bladder because he still wets the bed at night sometimes. This teacher really has me peeved but I'm afraid if I send an email it will be too emotional and then I don't want his whole year of math to suffer because we got off to a bad start but at the same time IMO she is way out of line.