However, when you got the alerts, did you ask your child about it? What did she say? Did you believe her? If you did, did you call the teacher and ask about it? Or did you just automatically punish her with no questions asked. Yes, I realize you were misled, and it shouldn’t have happened. But…if you punished her and she shouldn’t have been, then maybe you should make it up to her. I’m not defending the teacher here. It could be that she’s a lousy teacher, I don’t know. But you should give her (and your daughter) the benefit of the doubt before you jump to conclusions.

Your child is ten so she should have known if she did the work or not. She should have spoken up to the teacher and told you that yes she had done them.

Just saying it’s not all the teachers fault on the punishment.

But, when your child ‘supposedly’ could not keep up with everything, she paid for this mistake by having bad grades.

So in turn, the teacher should pay for this mistake because it was her mistake.

Make sure you write down everything that has happened, just to keep in case this comes up again. Also, write down everything that is said in that meeting so teacher wont’ come back and say ‘I didn’t say that’.

In the meeting ask the teacher what she is going to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again. And write down what she says.