After His Daughter’s Teacher Took A Book Away From Her At Recess, He Got The Principal Involved, And Now All The Teachers At School Are Gossiping About Him
Everyone who has ever been in school or has raised a kid that goes to school knows that there is always that one parent who tends to make everything difficult for the faculty and other members of the school community.
One man is afraid he’s become ‘that parent’ after having to clear up an issue his daughter was having with her teacher, especially after he found out that other teachers were gossiping about the incident.
He has an 11-year-old daughter named Cleo. Cleo is very bright and active. She plays sports after school and loves to play outside with the neighborhood kids. A lot of Cleo’s friends are ones she’s made outside of school.
In school, however, Cleo has struggled to make friends.
Cleo has ADHD and used to be bullied through 3rd and 4th grade because of it. Now, she’s in 5th grade, and although things have improved, kids in her class still tend to exclude and ignore her.
As awful as it sounds, Cleo has made peace with spending time alone at school. At recess, she typically plays by herself or reads. She loves to read and has been reading through her mom’s collection of childhood books.
Cleo’s lack of socialization in school and her recess habits have been concerning her teacher, even though he and his wife have explained to her that Cleo gets plenty of social time with other kids after school.
On a recent day after school, Cleo came home distraught after her teacher confiscated a book she was reading during recess. Unfortunately, it was one of her mom’s old books.
“Her teacher walked over, took the book, and told her to go play,” he explained. “My daughter begged for her book back, and the teacher refused.”
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He and his wife had to reassure poor Cleo that they weren’t mad at her for not having the book. Instead, they were angry at her teacher for taking the book for no good reason.
The next day, he took Cleo to school early to talk with her teacher one-on-one.
Once he walked into the classroom, he demanded that her teacher give them back the book. When Cleo’s teacher tried to defend her actions, he told her to “save it” and that she had no right to take the book when Cleo did nothing wrong.
“The teacher said she was allowed to set boundaries for her class, but I pointed out recess was free time,” he recalled.
“It’s not like Cleo is reading during math. We went back and forth, and finally, I said I’d be reaching out to the principal.”
Once he had involved the principal, the issue was resolved quickly. The principal made it clear to everyone that as long as Cleo wasn’t disturbing or harming anyone, she was allowed to read during recess.
The principal also stated that she wouldn’t have any more books confiscated unless she started reading during an un-designated time, like during class lessons.
He and his wife were feeling quite satisfied. However, his cousin is a teacher at Cleo’s school, and she told him that teachers have been gossiping about his interaction with Cleo’s teacher.
“She says what I did is ‘hot gossip’ in the teacher’s lounge and that I have been marked as ‘one of those parents,'” he said.
“She says the teacher isn’t paid enough, and I should’ve just accepted the rule.”
Cleo only has two months left at the school before moving on to junior high, so thankfully, their family won’t have to put up with the school’s faculty anymore.
But, now, he wonders if he was too harsh with Cleo’s teacher after talking with his cousin.
Do you think he was reasonable with Cleo’s teacher?
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