Misunderstood by teacher

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I did not say she was wrong. I simply stated that there were actually two people (students) missing and now just one.

UPDATE: My mother has now sent an e-mail to the principal about this matter and the principal with probably talk to me about it tomorrow or just answer my mothers e-mail.
I hope this gets sorted.

Thus telling her she was wrong. Which is possibly false and definitely rude.


Saying what?

Since we are only 7 people in my class and we have 7 desks, and two of them were empty i was correct in stating that two people were missing. It was not false and i did not say it rudely.

About the e-mail. Because of the situation last year my mother was in contact with the school alot, and now she just sent a message telling the proncipal that i get along with my math teacher but there has been misunderstandings, and that if there is something we (my mother & me & the school) can do to avoid it getting to the point it did last year.

Missing means unaccounted for. If the teacher knows his/her whereabouts, he/she isn't missing. You are only looking at it from your perspective.

Just saying it is rude.

Oh damn it I read your first post wrong. Anyway it still sounds like the teacher is jerk if she is always "mean mugging" you. However she does have all the power in the situation. The only way out is to make it to graduation.

To quote the greatest rapper ever "Brush that dirt off your shoulders kid."

I wouldn't consider a student missing if I knew they were not going to be in that day due to sickness or trip, doctor appointment, surgery.

But if one student doesn't show up and I was expecting them to because I was never informed that they wouldn't be in that day, I wouldn't consider them missing.

Put it this way, you don't consider a kid missing if the parent knows where they are. But if their kid took off in the store and the parent didn't know where they went, then they would say their kid is missing, not say they are missing when they are in school or at a friend's house or on a school trip or at their parent's house just because they are not home with them.

Maybe the teacher knew where the other student was.

What kind of facial expression is it? It could mean a lot of things.

Perhaps she doesn't like to be corrected and she is mad at you. Maybe it was sarcasm that you didn't pick up on and she is staring at you. Both of which are possibilities. I would go for the first one. If she seems annoyed it's probably the fact that you are bugging her by correcting her.

If there are only 7 of you, is this a special Ed class?

Yes it's best to let teachers be right about minor stuff like this, but in that small a class I think the teacher should be responsible for explaining what she is thinking, why, and what you're expected to do, and why......nicely, if approached respectfully by you to find out what is going on. Given whatever history you're alluding to having someone help and advocate makes sense, but if it's a special class then I think the teacher should be able to handle this without surprise, that's what you'd be in the small class for, if that's what it is.

Hopefully someone explaining will help.

She wasn't asking you a question. She wasn't asking your opinion. You asked in your original post, "What should I do?" You shouldn't answer unless you are asked a question.

Yep. It's special ed (I go to a special school). But I am doing everything people in normal ed are doing.

Remember this: a lot of people don't want to know if they're wrong.
So don't tell them.
My own theory is that AS wants the truth and likes finding the truth.
NT feels threatened by it. One of the great fears seems to be having people think they're stupid, which is what wrong means to them.
I think these people take correction as attack or defiance.

Probably not very far from the truth ^

That is just

Even for a misunderstanding, that teacher's reaction seems quite a bit odd.