Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Scenario 4
You are teaching one of your classes, when all of a sudden, an outraged Mother comes through the door and knocks down everything in her way. The parent's child and you have had a difficult time lately, due to disciplinary problems in the classroom. You have tried to set up meetings with the parents, but they refuse to come in, they just claim that the child is not at fault. You have just given the student another detention that day, and they had to call home. The mother is sick of you giving her child detention. She is yelling everything in the book at you and threatening to hurt you. It seems there is no way to calm her down, and there is a possibility that any move might make her go into attack mode which would threaten the students. What do I do?
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In this situation I think you definately need backup. With a parent who is so out of control you never know what they might accuse you of. A third party to verify what happens in the confrontation will save your butt in the long run. Maybe go and get the principal or another figure to mediate the conversation between you and the student's parent. Maybe the best thing to do would be to wait a while until the parent calms down by talking to another teacher or the principal before you talk to them at all.
Well all right I would just stick to my guns. If the mother comes into class during class time then ask her to leave if she will not then you must call down to the office for assistance. When it is appropriate then you should ask for help from the principle of the school and sit down with the mother to discuss the situation. However at not time should you abandon the fact that you are right. Stick to your guns at all time. They can smell fear.
one you have to protect yourself in any situation. Both physically and legally. I think you need to get some eye witnesses and a mediator and dicuss this situation as adults. You need to stick to your teaching philosophies but also be aware that you can probably resolve this professionally
This isnt a situation to mess around with. If you notice that the mother is about breaking point, use your intution and go get another teacher or faculty member. If you and they are willing, have them talk to anotehr faculty member about the problem until they've calmed down. Once they've reached an approachable level, you can head back into teh picture and see whats bothering them and what you can do.
If the mother is threatening violence, the first thing to do is subdue her. If a mother or any person is causing harm or threatening to cause harm within a classroom call the police. Not only would that keep the students safe, but maybe it would help the parent get a clue. Otherwise, have meetings with the students, and while at detention work with the student personally and see if you can get through.
I think the first thing I would do in this situation would be to calmly try and convince the parent to leave the classroom, this way the students will not be in any danger, because the problem is not their fault. I would try to get the principal to help with the conversation and hopefully things will not get out of hand and their will be no violence.
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