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Name: Allison
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As gently as possible, I tried to tell my son's teacher that I really did not like her use of frowny faces on her daily note home to inform me of how his day went. My son sees this form and thinks he is bad. We are all in agreement that he struggles and has bad days, I just think that as adults we can "use our words" to communicate about his day. I feel that she uses these to show how she feels about his day. She became very defensive and told me that happy and sad faces have nothing to do with her emotions. My question, "what exactly do they symbolize?" They certainly will never communicate "the class was to write six sentences and I accomodated him and only made him do four." This was her reasoning for one of the sad faces. Anyway, I seem to have attacked a sacred area for a first grade teacher and wondered what others think on this topic. My issue is that no matter what, when I see a frowny face, I immediately think that someone is sad or angry or else someone should be....
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Name: stressed out | Date: Mar 1st, 2006 11:02 PM
Hi Allison
I agree with you...you are the parent and must defend your son; if you see that the faces are interpreted by your son as bad or sad, it affects him
I am not sure how your school deals with the situation you are in but keep at them--maybe she could use a number from 1-10 instead of the faces?
good luck 

Name: Stephanie C. | Date: Mar 8th, 2006 12:35 AM
I agree. Why does she feel the need to have to put any sort of face on the page? Why would accomodating your child by making him do less require her to put a sad face anyway? There's no reason unless she's trying to show your son what she thinks about it in a way he'll understand. If you don't agree with it you should tell her outright that you don't want anymore symbols on the papers. It's your right as a parent to do so, and there's certainly no authentic reason as to why she would need to put a sad face on her student's papers. Tell her to stop or go to the principle if need be. 

Name: shana | Date: Mar 31st, 2006 4:20 PM
The teacher is probably trying to use a behavior management strategy to involve the parent in acheiving the desired behavior. By sending home a frowny face, you know that something did not go well that day and you can become involved in finding out what happened and how to help your child. 

Name: kye | Date: Apr 19th, 2006 5:24 PM
hello,
how are you doing there,please mail me back i will help you out ,[email protected] will be expecting you mail.

cheers 

Name: Juanita | Date: Apr 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
HI Allison.I commend you for saying something to the teacher. You are right and negativity gets us nowhere,especially children.Maybe remind her of that.I would have done the same thing if it were my son's teacher.She couldve made a better choice by telling him the good work he did on the sentences that he did do...I could go on and on but i wont . lol 

Name: Layne | Date: May 4th, 2006 1:23 PM
I really know what you mean. I see those frown faces and it burns me to the core. Negative reenforcment never works with kids or anyone else. Why do you think wal-mart is so successful they use positive reanforcement with there company policies. we also use the progress notebook for my daughters class and i think it causes alot of stress for all of us. Always picking at every little thing. I wish all of us that work could have the luxury of compaining about our job and putting it on someone else. Ya see... Just makes everyone pissed off. 


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