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Re: angry parent and paint

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From: Dana Ross (rossd_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 17:14:45 PDT

I teach at an arts integrated charter school in DC. Arts is in the name. I still get parents that complain about the paint. I tell them firmly and kindly that I can not warn them every time we do a project, because most of the time children have a choice of materials they want to use or we decide spur of the moment to use paint. Because clothes are expensive and parents have different access to funds, I suggest to them that tthey can either always dress their children in paint clothes or they can have paint clothes at school. That has solved my biggest complainers. Dana
>>> THEGREEN99@prodigy.net 04/20/01 16:39 PM >>>
How do you politely tell a parent she's moron? I called a parent the other
day to let her know her daughter accidentally got paint on her shirt and it
might not come out. The child was wearing an apron which covered completely
so I have no idea how the paint got there. Anyway, the mom wrote a fairly
ugly letter to me. It really is dumb. She wants to me call her and every
parent every time we use a material that might stain clothes. The principal
wants me to address the letter - very nicely of course. I need to tell her
that she's an idiot for thinking that I can call her and every parent when
we use something that might stain. (Okay, so not the idiot part.) I have
rewritten this letter twice and I still think it is a bit too biting. Any
ideas on how to squash the fire?

Jennifer 

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