Anyway, I hit the roof yesterday because bad math teacher took three points off DS's test because he did not put dollar signs in his final answer (this dragged that particular test grade down to a "basic".) He did have the dollar signs in his explanations. However the test is scribed for him so he says he said "dollars" but the scribe didn't put the symbol every time. Each and every problem was otherwise perfect - and explained beautifully and she marked every one wrong because of one missing dollar sign here and there!! And I found out she has been targeting him in class every day. She also tests on methods and things that are not in the curriculum and that she does not teach. I have already sent a number of emails about this woman and her poor teaching and organization to the teacher with the principal cc'ed ... He already knows there is a problem. with us. I have been told he has had many parents upset about her over the years. DS's resource teacher has already talked to said math teacher about how she targets DS in class. Clearly that has only made her worse. Grade-wise she can not get him out of the class (perhaps that is why she is taking points off for minor insignificant non-math reasons) so I think her approach is to make it painfully clear every single day to DS and to his classmates that he does not belong there. Eventually, he will feel so badly he will beg to leave. Apparently, she has used this approach a number of times in the past. Incidentally, from what I can tell she always targets a boy!!! This year my DS is her target. So, on top of her horrible teaching she targets him every class.
So I fired off another email to teacher and prinicipal and now we are having a meeting. DS has an IEP for dyspraxia/dysgraphia but also for anxiety,which has not been an issue in years but it is still in his iep. I am guessing that is what I will have use as my basis for getting this woman to stop targeting DS.
Sorry for the rant. Looks like I will have to quit my job so I can attend 16plus meetings and a million emails and phone calls with the school. Because I AM NOT PULLING him - now we are determined that he is not going to be driven out of this class. We had SUCH a great year last year - no meetings, no issues, DS thrived and was ahppy ... I got to concentrate fully on working... sigh
