I have been struggling recently with some of the students in resource. They just seem to have given up. In class they are easily distracted, joking, wandering, forgetting materials, going to the bathroom, doing anything but work. And when I try to help them with a problem they are actively hostile, like get out of my face.
Today, the mother of one such student wrote an email to ask how things are going.
Well, well, well....
I wrote back to her, cc-ing the student, about the state of things. She wrote back, understandably disappointed in her child. I have to say I wickedly savored the idea that this student is going to get chewed out by Mom when they get home.
But now I am having second thoughts. While I won the battle (I have an ally in motivating the student to change their ways), I may lose the war because I was a rat fink and played the Mom card. That may firmly and permanently put me in the bad guy camp. Where I probably already live. As the Earl of Badness.
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