Substitue Teacher Getting Better Results | ADHD Information

My son is add inattentive.  He has always been well behaved just has trouble to focus in school and handwriting is an issue.  Anyway, last year his first grade teacher pushed him and he was able to achieve as much as anyone else.  This year I have felt that he was slipping yet his teacher was not sending work home even when I asked.  It is very difficult to make him work extra when it comes from me and not the teacher.  She was also allowing him to give parts of his spelling test orally when it was too messy for her to read.  I asked her to stop that and make him rewrite it becasue he can do better.  In other words, her expectations of him were low so he was sliding by.  So...his teacher was hospitalized for a week and now has been out for three.  The Sub is GREAT.  When he doesn't finish something she sends it home.  She encourages him and tells him he is just as good as everyone else and she doesn't let him get away with anything.  As a result he is working harder at school and has caught up in every subject.  As a matter of fact she called me yesterday to say that she was teaching the class "borrowing" in subtraction and he got it faster than most of the other kids.  Now, his teacher will be back after February vacation.  How do I let her know about this without making her feel that "the sub was better" (even though she is).  I would NEVER wish ill on anyone but I wish she wouldn't come back. 

I had a teacher when my child was in first grade and just beginning on meds and she would not return my phone calls or let me know how my child was doing.  I had major problems with her when she went out on maternity leave the sub for 2 months was the best.  I was updated and got my weekly contact.

I since then added it to the IEP weekly communication so I know how she is doing, the year after and this year no problems.

That's a tough one.  Since things are going so much better for your child now, I think you have to figure out a way to tell the teacher what's helping.  You're right, though, that it's hard to do this w/o offending the teacher!  I wish I could tell you what words to say.

That wasn't much help, was it!