Miss Jarvis teaches second grade and is a friend of yours. When you get the list of students who will be in your third-grade class, she looks over it and begins telling you about some of the students on it. You ask about how involved the parents of these children are; she tells you that most are interested and involved, but that Ms. Arthur is a different story. Her child, Annie, is polite and
performs well, but Ms. Arthur herself is almost invisible. She rarely comes to school, doesn't return phone calls, and is known among lower-grade teachers for being unreliable about attending conferences. Miss Jarvis says she thinks a psychological barrier is coming into play. That means
a. that Ms. Arthur likely feels intimidated by school authority and therefore doesn't participate.
b. that Ms. Arthur disagrees with most of the decisions made by the school, and uses her absences as a means of silent protest.
c. that Ms. Arthur is psychologically unstable and may be a danger to Annie or to others.
d. that Ms. Arthur doesn't really care about Annie and is basically an unfit mother.
a
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