Ms. Whitfield is a kindergarten teacher at Pioneer Elementary school for the year 2021 and my encounter with her is that she is very rude, unprofessional, and defensive when you are talking to her about your child. She reviewed with me about my child's grade report in her class and when I had questioned her about how does she grade in regards to the section that my child completes homework and turns in regularly get an satisfactory (instead of good or outstanding, which are the two higher ratings) because my child turns in his homework every week. Ms. Whitfield responded that my child missed one homework and usually needs help with getting his homework out of his backpack and be reminded to hand it in, due to this, he received a satisfactory. I questioned her that she gave him a N for needs improvement on listening already so I felt that his need for reminders to understand to physically turning in his home works from his backpack shouldn't be counted against him in regards to grading on "turns homework in". She snapped at me angrily that she is not changing the grade and that it is her discretion on grading. I told her that I was just expressing her my view and that it is unfortunate that she had to respond that way to me. I was so upset that this teacher is arguing and lecturing me on the phone so unprofessionally. Never in my life have I met such a teacher who is so unfriendly, especially being a kindergarten teacher. I wish I could take my child out of her class, but my child really enjoys playing with the children in class so much that I don't know what to do. I did inform Mrs. Lomeli, the principal of this incident so that she is aware of this teacher's attitude and personality, however, the principal did not indicate any plan of disciplinary actions for this teacher except to let her know and she did not give me an answer in regards to the grading rubric for my child. I hope to leave this review so that future parents are forewarn on how this teacher to prevent stress for themselves and their child. This makes me wonder how the teacher is in class to all the children. read more