If she is a good teacher she will listen to you and consider your thoughts/ideas.Originally Posted by python kid
If you could see me I would be shaking my head.The snake had a bad shed last week and there are still large patches of skin left on the snake,and she didn't even bother to clean out the shedded skin in the tank.Then today just a wombo rat in their for her to eat.The snake is clearly stressed and refused to take the rat so she left it in there the whole day witch is like 8 hours.And before i left school i checked back to see if it had eaten and the rat was rearing up looking like it was getting ready to box.I want to give her advice but what would that sound like,an adult taking advice from a 15yr old kid?
Just be prepared to have sites, reptile magazines, books, and other materials to back your claims and points of improper care up. She may be skeptical of trying a message board site for info. So you may want to have other sources to back up your claims. A lot of older teachers are more than skeptical of electronic sources...they are paranoid of them!
At first, you may not want to use the word "improper" either.
Say something like Mrs. X I think we could take better care of our class snake doing the following....the reason I think this is because I've read this book, went to these sites. Explain the rationale behind your ideas. Something like...Ball Pythons need hides because they are secretive
If you are positive in your criticism and you have a much better chance of changing her mind!
If she is a a big jerk about it even after you try to approach the topic with grace and tact, then you tired your best and she might just be a jerk....
Every field, profession, culture, place, etc. has some amount of jerks.....dont get overly frustrated-the one good thing about jerks is that they teach us how not to be jerks....get through her class and move on to greener pastures!
As a younger teacher I deal with similar issues with older teachers......you'll deal with the similiar issues for quite some time as a young adult as well.
Good luck!
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