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My daughter's 3rd grade teacher is pregnant and also has a 2yo son.

Posted: Jan 26, 2010

The teacher is very sweet. She tells the kids in class funny stories about her son and she has put up a chart so the kids and follow the baby's growth in her tummy. She has shared her sonogram picture with the kids, etc. Anyway, one of the moms of the kids in the class has decided that it is not appropriate for the teacher to be talking to her class about her "personal" life and she called the principal and complained. The principal in turn has talked to the teacher and she has had to take down her chart and announced to the class today that she will not be able to talk about her son or the baby in her tummy anymore. My daughter says at first, in the morning after she had the talking to by the principal, she was tearful.

Now, I ask you what is wrong with people!?!?! I am so irritated with this mom that I have half a mind to call the principal myself and write a letter to the editor of our small town newspaper. We can have an admitted lesbian as our janitor. Teachers can talk about alternative lifestyles and kids with two mommies or two daddies and that is perfectly fine. But God forbid a young mother excited about having her second child share her excitement with her class. Some days I just lose all faith in humanity. I can believe out skewed society is!

Here endeth my rant!

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3rd grade teacher - Tara

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I'm right behind you on this one. I am the type of person that would call the principal and I would write a letter. This is where the minority always rule. One person makes a stink and everything is taken away while everyone else stews over it and stays quiet. Make a stand for yourself and your child and make a stink back. There should not be just one parent who gets their way. Keep us updated!! Go for it!!

sm - try this

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Talk to other parents in the class too! See if the majority agree and then all go to the prinipal. Rally behind the teacher. One bad apple, huh... That one person is depriving the children of a wonderful opportunity to learn and share that experience with their teacher. At this grade level, they LOVE their teachers. How sad for the class.

sm - Spooky girl

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Isn't that just pathetic! I think the teacher was ahead of the game. I mean, obviously the kids are going to notice the changes to her body, why not share the experience! It's "real life" and what a wonderful learning opportunity.

You should write a letter to the editor! Our society is hindered by closed minded idiots who can't or won't accept the true diversty that makes up our population.

Teachers get pregnant, fact. Should we make them stay home that year to make it easier on the parents who can't explain things to their own children, or who can't or won't talk to their children about the facts of life?

I rant with you!

I'm with you on this.... - Stella-JRG

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Keep us posted, please!

Do not think the classroom is the place for teaching - others kids about the bird and bees

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I am agreeing with the principle. She needs to share her joy with her family and friends, not with the kiddies. I myself never could understand why people got so hung up on the sonogram picture in the first place.

It is a wonderful time and I do not see any problems with her sharing her stories (SM) - Just sayin ...

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about her son and her pregnancy. She is not detailing how she got pregnant for goodness sake. Probably a number of the kids in her classroom either have, are going to have or will have in the near future little brothers or sisters and I think that by her sharing this information with these kids that it could help them adapt to a little brother or sister, especially if they are an only child. If she were being explicit about how she got pregnant, then definitely everyone should have a problem with that.

Remember when I went to school and a pregnant - teacher had to leave before

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she started to show, yes leave. I know that was years ago and she was not allowed to even talk about her pregnancy. If the teacher talked about how she got pregnant the families would be heated up by her talking about that, saying it was not her place. This also not her place. If she drank alcohol and smoked weed, would you also like for her to talk about that? Kids donâ��t need teaching by the schools to adapt to a brother or sister.

Oh for heaven's sake, she is not teaching the birds and bees. - Aggravated!

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And she's married. She simply shares with the kids because her stomach is getting bigger and kids are inquisitive. What is wrong with that? Pregnancy is very interesting and kids would think a sonogram picture is cool.

I just don't get how gay marriage is an okay topic, but being pregnant is not? It makes absolutely no sense. Everything is bass ackwards anymore in this world!

The higher ups have spoken - Done deal

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NM

The higher ups need to be spoken back to - Knee Jerks

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Bucking authority, challenging "because we said so," is how idiotic decisions get changed. Do not ever accept anything simply because someone in authority says it is so.

no, she is not, but 1 kid might ask. - sm

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"how did the baby get in there?'

What is the teacher then going to say? To 8/9 year old children? Isn't that too early, and in such a scientific way, in which she has to continue.

No, not a good idea.

How it got there? I guess she could always just tell the small kids - Birds and the bees

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she swallowed a melon seed and then the kids would be afraid to eat melon. This woman is apparently just like some of our other "young" teachers now that think they should share their life with the children they are there to teach, and not about their "bundles of joy." Let her share her warm fuzzy feelings with older people rather than thinking the children are all just 1 big group of her peers.

Birds and the bees - Tara

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This topic really bothers me to no end. This woman is a teacher who puts up with probably mostly bratty kids, especially if they are the kids of most of these posters who are apparently against celebrating life, all day every day. Let's say she has 20 students in her class and she has to know about every one of them. At parent/teacher conferences, the parents are coming in with excuses to no end as to why little Johnny or Susie didn't get their homework done or why they are failing. Dad's a drunk, mom left, single parent having to work two jobs, etc. She is hearing about the lives of all 20 kids, has to keep their backgrounds in her mind so as to accommodate them accordingly in class, AND keep in touch with the parents about how their little Susie or Johnny is doing, yet one aspect of her life that is CLEARLY VISIBLE to all of her students and something that should be clearly celebrated is supposed to be just shut up and put out as if what is in her belly doesn't exist?! Seriously, do you think the questions are going to go away just because she isn't showing them a picture. She has a freaking basketball protruding from her front side and that's not going to spark questions? I could see if you are in a religious school and the teacher is not married, not in a monogamous relationship, and came off as a hooch, but seriously people, she is married. Having babies is a FACT OF LIFE, and no one, and I mean no one, who is following the path of life in the right order (school, marriage, kids) should be made to feel as if being pregnant is dirty and wrong. That teacher is in the middle of all of your lives, she should be able to enjoy something in hers.

I not only do not have kids in school, even grandkids - are grown now so all posters?

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I have seen a lot and thank goodness I am not a parent of a child who today is that bratty. Thanks but you cannot put all the posters into that 1 category. I am very thankful my kids were not an issue when they were in school. I told them right from the start I had to work (and unless most on here, I actually had to leave home and work, OMG!!) Another thing, a teacher was never in the middle of my life, not now, not then, never. I met some teachers but never buddy, buddy with any of them. Let me start assuming now (like others like to do on this board) I guess most here have a teacher in their life because they have to stay at the schools almost 24/7 because the kids are so bratty now. End of posting.

all posters - Tara

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I didn't put all posters in that category. I said 'most' of these posters. I also didn't say you have to be buddy buddy with a teacher in order to have her in your lives. A lot of parents have excuses as to why their kids didn't get things done, etc. and they blame their personal lives. I'm just saying that if a teacher has to listen to the personal lives of most of her students, there should be no reason why she can't share one aspect of hers that there is absolutely nothing wrong with. She's not telling the kids she is getting divorced, she is not telling the kids that she had amazing sex to end up pregnant, and she is not telling them any other details of her personal life that they need not know about. It is a pregnancy, a baby, a gift of life, and most importantly a reality of life that is quite visible to anyone who looks at her. There is nothing wrong with her sharing this information and making it exciting for the kids and anyone who thinks so is completely warped in the head. Anyone who thinks that an ultrasound picture is a GRAPHIC IMAGE has something terribly, terribly wrong with them.

I do not find it graphic, do not find it useful - because what can you see really

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For the parents benefit alone. The ones I have seen really donâ��t look like much of anything to me. So you are pregnant, wow, that means you are able to conceive like most all the other animals in the world. No biggie. I have never wanted to see a sonogram, I have never wanted my husband to go to doctor appts with me, I have never wanted anyone in the delivery room with me. I am a big girl and I think able to handle this. I am glad the schools took a stand.

Tara do you have a child in school or are you pg? - just wondering

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It just seems that you have a lot to say about this and a lot of energy to burn about it. Sometimes people who do not have a personal investment in a situation have a lot more to say than when their situation changes. It also seems to me that you justify your position by saying what is good for the parents is good for the teacher, yet most schools must be held to a higher standard as they are examples in our communities. If the teacher doesn't want her personal life held up to scrutiny, it is best to keep it private and avoid the fallout. Just saying is all.

BTW, I am a single mom w/ a child in elementary school and before you blow wind my way...I am adopting by choice and did not give birth while unwed. I took a child out of a situation where the too-young parents had a child before they were ready to be parents. I don't put all my situation on the teacher, but certainly have a higher-than-most need for the child I am raising to be in an environment where boundaries are clearly set and followed - by all staff members, family members, friends, etc.

Good luck with that rant of yours.

I almost suspect that she IS this teacher - nm

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nm

well, now, yall just gave this thread a buzz kill - imagine that - nm

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Same here, I never had a buddy teacher of my children and I never told - sm

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any teacher my curriculum vitae and my misery, if any!

OMG, what the matter with you? - sm

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It is enough if she says "I am having a baby." to 8/9-year-olds!

I really wonder if her husband agrees to this, if she has one, since she regards her pupils as peers and almost family.

Does the teacher tell the children also about her "periods," since they are so "close?"

Geeezzzz!

You clearly do not have children. - wow

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I am a single mom (so thanks for your blanket, offensive statement regarding that). You don't know me, you don't know my situation, so you have no right to judge.

My son's teacher(s) have certainly never been in "the middle" of our lives. He goes to school, behaves himself, comes home, does his homework. I'm not sure where you get the impression that all teachers deal with are "bratty" kids with deadbeat parents, making the teacher have to suffer massively.

And I remember going to school as well, and my teachers were never "in the middle" of our lives. So, if that is your perception, perhaps you were a "bratty" kid or are the parent of "bratty" kid(s) since you seem to have it all figured out. How's that for a blanket statement?

Unbelievable. And I'm not sure how your insulting statements towards parents and children have anything to do with the original discussion at hand!

I could not agree more with you! Either she tells ALL - nm

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or nothing at all, IN CLASS, I mean.
These are 8/9-years-olds, for heaven's sakes! Too early to keep their minds too much occupied with this and only getting explained half of it.

I was always told one should only explain so much as the child asks, so not to overwhelm it.

A NO from me!

I have to agree with this poster. These children - sm

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are 8/9 years old. I too think it is too early to put this subject so open out in front of the whole class. It is different if it is about his/her parents and his/her expected brother/sister.

I think a lot of parents would not agree with this.

I think a lot of boundaries were overstepped - mom of 6 yo

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The teacher treated the kids in her class like they were coworkers. Problem is that they do not have adult minds. No, you can't ignore the elephant in the room by not talking about it, but putting graphic images of an ultrasound before minds that were not her own children crossed the line.

Once a line gets crossed, a manager has to reestablish the lines and then the teacher can't talk about her private life and everyone thinks it is such a shame she can't talk about it anymore.

Sometimes lines get blurred and there is a consequence to that. This teacher now knows where her line is.

boundaries - Tara

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GRAPHIC images of an ultrasound? Are you serious?!?! Yep I would much rather protect my kids from the GRAPHIC images of an ultrasound than have them go anywhere in public and see the half-naked girls everywhere, boys portrayed as gangsters, the violence and nudity on TV, and the violence and crime portrayed on videogames. The gift of life and the sight of a growing baby in a picture is so horrific that my children might be completely traumatized for life if they are exposed to it.

OP, you definitely need to say something to the other parents and principal and get this put back where it needs to be - an innocent, loving, and proud portrayal of the gift of life and not some horrific traumatizing event that these apparent pro-abortion/anti-life people are ranting and raving about. This is completely asanine to even have this kind of mentality. As the OP said, we can have openly gay people all around us fighting for marriage and you are worried about a picture of a baby on an ultrasound? I would be more worried about the questions of an 8 or 9 year old after seeing two same sex people kiss or hold hands and "how do they do it" rather than have my child ask me how a baby got in the belly for crying out loud. Definitely and completely a** backwards society we are living in. No wonder everyone and everything is so screwed up!!!

Very nice post Tara, could not agree with you more!! - Just sayin ...

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nm

THEY ARE EIGHT-TO-NINE-YEAR OLDS! She should not do this! - nm

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nm

yes, I agree - nm

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nm

Absolutely nothing wrong with it!!!sm - Mia

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Does anyone think they are NOT going to have questions? Why are u getting fat (think about the age we are talking about here)?

Here is another thought.........what if (and no not my thing) she was pregnant one day but NOT the next. That would be a more interesting topic (no).

She is sharing a life experience in a great way. The kids are "understanding" that life grows inside of a "mom."

what the teacher did was wrong - parents have supreme right to their kids

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The teacher cannot do what she did to my child. Period. Children operate in survivor mode. It is to their advantage to be excited about what the teacher is excited about. They cannot distinguish right or wrong about this situation. The teacher took into her own hands a right held by our laws to be the supreme right of a parent - and that is why it had to stop. Her contract is with the school, not with the parents or the kids. She put herself first, made it all about her. The principal had to put an end to it (correctly so). There is a reason sex education is not introduced in schools until later in life. There is a reason darwinism is not taught in the schools. Anyone thinking the teacher had the right to interfere with the parent's supreme rights in this matter is wrong. Period.

Correct, teachers have also to obey rules, she cannot do how she pleases - nm

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nm

Just my take on this... - EagleEye

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While I appreciate what you are trying to say here, I do disagree with you in a way. But again, it's not really part of the childrens' school curriculum to be hearing about this teacher's pregnancy during class time and taking up class time to do so when they have other subjects they need to focus on at this age. Just as well I would also expect a gay teacher to keep their personal business to themselves also and not discuss that in class as well. It is personal and has no place in the classroom. The kids are there to learn the curriculum and not get into the personal lives of their adult teachers. I understand being excited about having a baby - I have two children myself and my kids have been in class with teachers who were expecting as well - but they never brought all of that up which is just as well. I'm no prude but I also prefer to have discussions on sex, having babies, etc. as a parent myself and not have others do it for me. I consider that my responsibility and I don't trust other people with that. I have my own way of doing things, ya know? Just my opinion. No disrespect to anyone who disagrees.

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