There are many wonderful things about ourschool. Believe me when I say that I agree with everythingyou say. Why I chose to send them there, what my expectationsare and the school's expectations in the beginning were what Iwanted.
Our situation is a bit of a different one. Without going intoall of the issues, I will say that the rules that have been added andthe manner in which they use them ..... can be quite petty and too mucheffort is applied to those things. My children have had noproblems with most of those "rules" but it tends to be a bit.....annoying.
I believe my children because they have no reason to lie tome. I do check out whatever story they have told me and findthem to be truthful however, maybe eliminating an item or two that canmake a difference in my attitude.
When there are clearly written rules to a requirement and the teachertells a child otherwise..... and tells me the same thing.... there is aproblem. I have to go and show the teacher the writtenrequirement and she is the only teacher for that subject for that gradelevel and she doesn't know the rules? There is a problem.
When a child is absent there is a written rule that they receive thenumber of days out to make up their work. An assignment givenduring that time is not due the day they come back. When ateacher tells me the child should have taken a test the day they cameback (a test assigned a day they were ill) and tells the child how"Your absence is just your excuse for not being prepared" ...... thereis a problem.
Believe me when I say, I do not go about this in an unprepared,uneducated and/or quick to judge manner. However I am gettinga "bad taste" where a couple of teachers are concerned.
Our middle school is very hard. It is very good in many waysbut very bad in others. It has a few problems that can makeit very hard to deal with. My daughter will most likely neverwalk through those halls. I am 99.9% sure I will move her tothe public schools before that.
6 hours of homework in one night? I thought it was just mychild who can be a bit unfocused but a genius as well. Nope,it was the entire grade level.
18 hours of homework over one weekend? What is it that they do in school hours?
I could go on and on.
I love our school for elementary grades. I loved it the day Iwalked in and cried joyous tears when my son got in. It'sbeen the best choice for them, I have no doubt, but there are issues aswith any school. I just get frustrated!