The Blood is The Life 05-05-2012

[miss_s_b]

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Comments

[miss_s_b]

The teacher reckons she disrupts other children, and to be fair it's possible she does. And that's the thing; school is necessarily about enforcing a degree of conformity, or they wouldn't be able to teach anyone anything.

I wish I could afford a one-on-one teacher at times, but she's so far ahead of her class in grades anyway that I think the learning what society expects of her is worth it - she KNOWS there are things she can do at home that she can't do at school, and I think that's valuable. Not only is she learning that there are appropriate behaviours for appropriate places, but she's learning that her mummy will always value her for herself and not try to change her - home is a safe place.

This way she is learning how to conform when she needs to, but not being forced to conform all the time. And we have told her that explicitly - that it's a skill she can learn which will help her when she grows up. She seems to understand this.

[telegramsam]

Well if she cope with it, that's good. And I do understand children need to learn how to function in society, even if that's difficult for them.

It just irritates me sometimes how draconian schools can be....

[miss_s_b]

Oh yeah, I agree with you. But Holly's teacher is a good lass, and if she couldn't cope with it then I'd be a lot less relaxed.

I'm actually more worried about the Special Educational Needs interventions she gets from people other than her teacher, if that makes sense?

[telegramsam]

Yea, it does make sense. Some of them are worse than the "regular" teachers, frankly...

[miss_s_b]

The last meeting we had with her I just felt incredibly patronised. And I felt like screaming "I HAVE A MASTERS DEGREE IN LAW! STOP TALKING TO ME LIKE I'M HARD OF THINKING!"

[telegramsam]

Oh, one of those. Fun.

Well, try not to concuss yourself banging your head on the desk... :\

[staceyuk]

Seconded.