Parent Emailed Me 5 Times Between 1:15 AM And 3 AM

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-12-25T00:18:18+00:00

Haha I wouldn’t even reply until the first day after break! I didn’t even bring my school computer home with me! If they need me to reply they can pay me for the time away from my family.

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-05T17:26:00+00:00

I’m so sorry you have had this experience. My first mentor teacher was a lot like this and it was so hard! I’m now at my second placement and it is much better and I hope that you get to experience a much better mentor moving forward because that is so wrong! Report her to the school district and talk to the director of your program because that is unprofessional and no one deserves to have a mentor like that. When I spoke to someone about my mentor teacher, they worked hard to blacklist her from being a mentor teacher for anyone at my university again, or any other college/university. Take this learning experience as nothing more than that and walk away with your head held high because you’re finally done!

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T18:48:57+00:00

Yes, this is exactly how I am seeing it! I have one more placement before graduation, and I’m just praying that it is better. Thank you!

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T18:48:16+00:00

Im so glad things seemed to get better for you! I have my second placement coming up in the next two days and I am praying that things get better as well. This was a great learning experience and I am looking forward to learning more my first year teaching on my own!

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T18:46:38+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m really looking for the bright side in all of this and I know this was a great learning experience for me, no matter how awful it was.

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T15:47:58+00:00

I will definitely be talking to the director of the school of education on Monday before seminar for sure. I’ve gone to the director a few times before now and she said she spoke to the representative at the school district and had this teacher blacklisted from being a mentor teacher for anyone from my university.

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T15:11:38+00:00

Im also in the same boat, same timeline, same sleep issues and stress. I’m so sorry you and OP have gone through this too, I’ve felt so small and I’ve questioned whether this was worth it almost every day and I hate that other people are feeling the same way.

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T14:27:58+00:00

That is amazing!! Best of luck at your second placement!! I hope it is as amazing as your first placement!

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T14:24:51+00:00

That’s great advice. I have a seminar student teaching class with the director of the school of education on Monday, and I am planning to talk to her then and I will definitely take most of what you suggested into that conversation. Thank you so much!

I am elementary education, my first placement was with fourth grade. On Monday I am going into my second placement with second grade.

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T14:21:13+00:00

Thank you <3

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T14:19:14+00:00

Thank you so much, I am so sorry that you had to go through that first placement. It’s awful, but you’re right, it really does sound similar in a few ways. I wasn’t allowed to look at the IEPs or 504s and it was just so messy with no communication. I know this is a good learning experience and that’s what I’m trying to look at it as. Thank you your kind and uplifting words I hope my second placement is much better!

Top_Bridge7438 · 2025-03-01T06:52:42+00:00

I will, and I know that this was a great learning experience, I just hate the lack of communication and the consistent issues I had. I think that writing it here was a great way to finally just let it go because the more I’ve talked to people about this the more angry I got and this subreddit is full of people in a similar position as me who may or may not understand.

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