Opinions please!

[Pitchounette]

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[mrsruffallo]

She told your son that he is lazy? I think that is very unprofessional.
Are there no other bilingual children there?
She sounds bonkers

[Merle]

Blooming heck! This is terrible. She needs to be making a special effort to encourage him to speak, to share in order to help his confidence. This should be a priority for her in relation to him and his education. You should speak to her again and then to the Head, if you feel you have got no further.

Good on you for bringing him up bilingual.

[Pitchounette]

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[cory]

She is bonkers! But if she wrote it in the diary, then at least it doesn't depend on your evidence. When you go to see the head, I mean.

[Pitchounette]

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[FernieB]

If she wrote it in his diary then go to the head. It shouldn't matter where a child is born, if English is their second language, allowances should be made until they feel confident. Sounds to me like the teacher is the lazy one.

[Pitchounette]

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[smee]

That's dreadful, really dreadful. How on earth can telling a child he's lazy at 4 be helpful?! What sort of school is it Pitchounette? + are you sure it's the right one for your DC. Either way I'd definitely get onto it.

[Pitchounette]

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[slng]

Go and see the head! She's given you written evidence. at the level of bonkersness. Perhaps it's a cry for help.

But seriously. I would. If you wait and there are more issues then it would get even more tangled and difficult to sort out.

[Acinonyx]

Dd has problems speaking in a group. When she started school she was punished nearly every day (put in the corner on her FIRST DAY!) because the teacher didn't think dd was shy - just stubborn and refusing to cooperate. I was furious, but after 4 days, just as I was about to go in and blow a gasket, the teacher seemed to 'get it' - that although dd isn't shy one on one - she can't cope with groups (even small ones).

After that, dd was let be while we worked on group roll plays with her toys at home until she was reading to start speaking a little in class. She gradually increased her input from there but will probably never be really keen to speak up. That's what worked for us.

Your ds's teacher still doesn't get this. I think her attitude is positively cruel and you should definitely speak to the HT.

[Pitchounette]

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[Pitchounette]

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[slng]

Being somebody who never ever write anything down that could incriminate myself I treat things like this as either stupidity or a cry for help .

[primaryteacher1]

The teacher sounds spot on ;-)

Oh I would speak to the Head first rather than presenting a letter (take a list of the facts in with you). I'm sure they'd like to work with you to overcome this problem, not create a 'you V us' situation.

PT x

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[Pitchounette]

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[CardyMow]

OMG! I help out in my DS's school, and we have quite a few ESL DC's. They get TA time and extra support and would NEVER be classed as lazy. Once the DC has been in an English speaking school for around 2 yrs, the issues have evaporated...and the non-bilingual DC's have often learnt a little of the ESL's 'home' language as well. We have a lot of polish DC's and even my DD (with MLD) by the time she left Y6 could have a semi-reasonable chat in Polish with her best friend (and a few not-so-choice words in Polish as well...). AND we had a selective mute in YR last year in my DS2's class. I used to go in and spend time helping him, and everyone was so proud of him when he first whispered the words in his reading book to me. After 3 months of me sitting with him for 2 mornings a week. To see (HEAR) this boy now, you would never have known...Definately think it is a problem with the teacher, and needs to be taken further. I pulled my DD out of her first primary for something similar (teacher told me in front of her, that she was too stupid to learn her alphabet ...she never went back!).