@mommynes, I completely understand. I hope that next year you have another wonderful teacher! It makes all of the difference 💕

@oddie, good for you! I wish I would have been more vocal but I’m so emotional I would have just had a meltdown if I confronted her teacher 😒 lol ugh homeschooling sounds better and better. I would just be terrified that she doesn’t learn anything and it’ll be my fault ya know? It’s a scary thing to take on. So much kudos to you and other homeschool parents!! 👏

@mommynes, yeah, and needless to say I wasn’t her favorite parent because I was on her ass all year. After that conference, I did one of my own reading drills with him and sent a video along with my own scoring of his reading to the principal and copied the teacher. I asked the principal if she’d like to let me know why his teacher was threatening to hold him back on an accusation for an inability to read. I challenged them both to rescore the video and let me know if my calculations were accurate or not. (We were reading a Goosebumps book which is above his grade level so clearly he was a bit beyond the kinder level work she was claiming he was struggling with.)

My boys absolutely loved homeschool. We started out the transition with an online public school through k12.com. It helped me learn the ropes while I researched how to do it on my own. It is free, gave the materials and curriculum and had teachers there for us if needed. So that was nice. If need be, I’d consider them again if I feel homeschooling entirely on my own becomes too much.

All year my boys asked to go back to homeschooling. They all felt they learned more, especially about topics they loved, and that they had more time to sleep, ate better, got sick less often and they had more free time for their hobbies and friends.

Contrary to popular belief, my kids socialized a lot. We often finished all of our work rather early in the day and some of the classes I did were more life skills such as gardening, cooking, fishing- things like that. So after the mandatory things were done for the day we often had scheduled play dates or would go to a park or some kind of kids place so my boys could get out energy and meet new faces. It’s funny because since we lived in this house for almost ten years, my boys were already friends with a good portion of neighborhood kids just because we are an active and outdoor family, so they only made a couple new friends this year. Everyone else they already have know for years.

Anyway, I am in Arizona and we are notorious for not having the best education in the country. I hope to see that improve and I am pretty actively involved in things pertaining to that. I think we should continue to have freedom to homeschool but I fight for the public school systems to improve as well.

Love it! I forgot to take a picture of ours 😩 My SO made her one that said “the influence of a good teacher can never be erased” and then we got her an amazon gift card. She loved it! Thanks for the idea!

@oddie, WOW! First parent conference and she already made up her mind she was holding him back. And she made him have an accident! That was no doubt horrifying for him. These stories are making me so mad and sad. I wish I could homeschool but I feel like my daughter wouldn’t learn from me. Plus she loves going to school. How do your older boys do with the homeschooling?

I love this gift nes! It’s super cute.

I’m sorry about the craptastic teacher in the past. My oldest had a horrible teacher for kinder so we decided to homeschool. Last year we decided to try public school again. Three of my boys had great teachers but my second grader had an awful teacher. He has ADHD too. The first parent teacher conference we had she told us that he was frustratingly slow, can’t read (he could but he needs extra help) and that she was likely going to hold him back. Then she made fun of him because he asked when they get to go home. She said it was ridiculous and would be a long year if he’s bugging her by 11. Oh and she wouldn’t let him go poop so he had an accident in his pants one day. I wish they’d fire her. We are homeschooling again next year but I truly appreciated the other three wonderful teachers. That lady, I’d still like to punch her. She’d send him home with books he had been able to read since he was like four... and when I’d demand more advanced books she’d tell me he can’t read yet. So i requested he be placed in resources for reading (extra help class) so he can catch up and she told me no. She said other kids were more worrisome than him so she said he just needed to try harder. My poor kid came home telling me he’s dumb almost every day because if he asked the teacher to help with a word she’d roll her eyes and say she didn’t have time to read it all to him

@whatheshell, Etsy! If you type in printable teacher appreciation tons of super cute things come up and they’re all between $5-$10. I got the picture and the bath bomb thing for less than $10. I don’t have a printer so I had it printed at fedex but it was still cheap. 👍

@hershey, wow. Again, it’s baffling why these teachers are still teaching! Especially if they hate their jobs! If you’re a miserable, impatient teacher then please for the sake of our children, stop teaching. Or at least teach an older grade so you don’t tarnish the little ones. This just goes to show how many bad teachers their are out there and it breaks my heart for our children. I’m sorry poor Brook had to deal with that so young. ❤️

@0814mja, I’m so sorry! That’s so awful. As teachers they should understand the huge impact on their students. It doesn’t take much to break their fragile confidence and we’re left with the aftermath and trying to bring it back up. I hope your daughter is able to conquer math and school in general. ❤️

We had the worst kindergarten teacher for Brook this year. I'm incrediably upset that the first stepping stone (besides preschool) of structured learning was tarnished by this teacher. I asked her if she would like to do kindergarten again and she said no. DD told me, "Dont put DS in her class." A six year old. You know the teacher was bad when not one parent requested pictures with her or even walked up to thank her. Our school nurse is refusing to allow her child in class. Paras do not want to work in the same class as her. I could go on and on. Thank goodness there are the good ones ❤

Btw, I love this.

Can I ask how you made the sign

Ugh poor thing! That's awful.. We've had mostly awesome teachers.. DD1 had a 3rd grade teacher that was tough to deal with. Because of her I can not do anything to help dd get her confidence up to do math for the life of me. So since then she struggles with math. Her past 1st grade teacher is supposed to tutor her this summer so I hope that helps.

@mommynes, oh my goodness, that sounds horrible! I'm so glad your daughter had a better experience this school year. And you did a lovely job with the teacher gifts, she will love them! ❤️

@mims, lol you know my struggles! It was absolutely awful. If anything good has come of the situation I now realize I didn’t appreciate the good teachers she had before and will definitely never take them for granted again!

@mommynes, who do I need to hurt? I couldn't imagine! I know Emery can be difficult but we have been blessed with amazingly patient teachers the past 2 years.