Am I wrong about this?????

[Tink]

Well said Emmsmom.
It stinks when the student and teacher aren't a good match, but this late in the year you can just use it as a lesson for the child in how to cooperate and succeed in spite of it. We all know that later on they're going to have bosses they don't click with either... so let this be a good building block for that time.

[judy]

I know I'm answering this very late, but I just found it, and just wanted to share my teaching experience with you. I'm so glad that Trinity knew the work and found it easy to do. In the end, that's all that mattered.

I taught for years, and if the subject is easy for the student, and they knew it well, why bother with having them "make it up?" She may have had some perception that she needed to do a notebook check, or some other nonsense. Luckily, Trinity is almost finished with her.

I have to say that there are some teachers who do not ever see the big picture. They have such nonsense and trivialities as their priorities.

My best advice to you is to always be on top of Trinity's learning process, and, as long as she's doing well, either appease her teacher, tell him/her no, or ignore her. There were many times in second and third grade when I did Jessie's work for her. She had the same, most neurotic teacher both years. She gave them 32 pages of work to do in 2nd grade over Spring vacation! Most of us mothers calmly did most of them ourselves and gave the kids the ones we thought were useful.

[teri88]

Did you ask Trinity why she doesn't complete it in school? What was her excuse? Yeah, just grit your teeth and get through the last few weeks. The teacher dropped the ball for sure!