My oldest just called me about her teacher calling out her unrealistic view of her "dream job" and I don't know if talking to the school is overkill
Right now I'm a bit heightened emotionally (freshly postpartum) and my 7th grader texted me telling me that she had an assignment this morning to write about their dream day at their dream job. She wrote about how she wants to be a dental assistant and her ideal day would start at 9, and she'd work on really nice patients who are on time and then she'd go for a nice hour long lunch at her favourite restaurant with her friends before going back to work. Then she'd get told she could go home early and she'd go to her penthouse apartment to play with her cats.
Her teacher shared what she wrote with the class and said she doesn't know a single dental office that opens that late, and she'd be lucky to get lunch much less an hour lunch. She said not all patients are nice and affording a penthouse apartment on a dental assistant salary is "unrealistic"and that "whoever wrote this needs a reality check". She didn't mention my daughter by name but everyone in her class knows she wants to be a dental assistant and the kids narrowed it down.
My daughter said she took the assignment literally. This is her dream job and her dream day. That's the assignment and that's what she wrote so in her slightly Asperger's brain she did a great job and I do actually think my daughter is right, but her teacher is too.
I'm doubting myself though and of course I'm going to ask the teacher what actually happened in case my daughter is exaggerating but I don't think she is. She isn't the one to tell stories.
So........ Overreacting or how should I go from here?
Edit to add that this is not the first negative experience with this teacher. Her teacher also called her conceited once because she makes them write ways to improve on every assignment. My daughter got 100% on a test and she said something like "I could improve the way I write" and the teacher told her it had to be assignment specific. She wrote a few other things and the teacher kept telling her it had to be assignment specific. My daughter got frustrated and said something like she didn't know you could improve on 100% and the teacher said wow are you really that conceited? The teacher denies this ever happening but my daughter's friend says it's true and it definitely happened.
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