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KB5252 said:
Ive only had issues with a few of my daughters teachers over the years. One was last year, nice enough guy, ex military but all over the place and terribly disorganized. My wife and I constantly had to remind him to enter test scores and grades. It got so bad I that I had to contact the principle a couple of times when there were only two scores entered for an entire report card period with only 1 week left. I did not even feel comfortable holding my daughter accountable for her grades in his class.

The absolute worst was an elementary school teacher she had, she was a year or two into teaching. Very inexperienced and very insecure. My daughter got her one and only D in her class. This teacher explained to me that it wasn't uncommon for some children to struggle with Math and that perhaps we should look into getting her a tutor. I pointed out that she had never struggled with math in the past, suggested that perhaps my daughter wasn't the issue. Before and after that year my daughter lowest grade in math has been a B, missed the A by two points.

We always go to the open houses and meet with her teachers. We stay involved. And we set clear expectations of our daughter grade wise. Is she gets A's and B's she keeps her life as normal. If she does not then she loses some of the "distractions", phone, tablet etc, until she improves those grades.

We figure if we're involved our daughter will be too. We help where we can and ask the teacher for assistance when we can't. Must teachers are great and they typically go the extra mile to help ensure our daughter is successful in meeting our A and B expectations because believe it or not they want her to be successful too, well most do anyway.
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I wish we could bottle your parenting skills and hand them out to the many in need.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
I have always had the opinion that educators are underpaid.
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I'm not too fond of public education, even though I have a ton of family in it, but I think they are (for the most part) paid appropriately. Short hours, tons of vacations, tenure in a lot of cases, etc. Yes, I know the good teachers go beyond work hours, but a lot seem to do the bare minimum which makes for a pretty easy job. It'd be nice if they were paid on an objective effort scale, but that's impossible.
 
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Ttucke11 said:
I'm not too fond of public education, even though I have a ton of family in it, but I think they are (for the most part) paid appropriately. Short hours, tons of vacations, tenure in a lot of cases, etc. Yes, I know the good teachers go beyond work hours, but a lot seem to do the bare minimum which makes for a pretty easy job. It'd be nice if they were paid on an objective effort scale, but that's impossible.
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During one of my meetings with a VP, she stated she wasn’t going to ask her teachers to stay more than 15 minutes past end of the school day. This was an in person meeting, I literally laughed in her face. More of my demeanor issue.
 
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Ttucke11 said:
I'm not too fond of public education, even though I have a ton of family in it, but I think they are (for the most part) paid appropriately. Short hours, tons of vacations, tenure in a lot of cases, etc. Yes, I know the good teachers go beyond work hours, but a lot seem to do the bare minimum which makes for a pretty easy job. It'd be nice if they were paid on an objective effort scale, but that's impossible.
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Most people in just about any profession provide bare minimum effort IMO. As long as the job is done is all that matters. It is hard for me to really say teaching is easy because I have never been in that line of work. I do know that I would hate teaching and dealing with kids all day long. Somebody has to do it and I am glad that it is not me.
 
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allvol123 said:
During one of my meetings with a VP, she stated she wasn’t going to ask her teachers to stay more than 15 minutes past end of the school day. This was an in person meeting, I literally laughed in her face. More of my demeanor issue.
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Yea one of my best friends is a teacher. He'll send me pics hitting up the golf course at 3:30 after work when I can't leave for another 2 hours, then goes on 2 week-long cruises in the summer without using any PTO. I don't necessarily hate public education, but I really don't want to listen to how bad they have it either. Especially in states that pay decent wages. Teachers make a ton of money per hour. If you want more, find a summer job, coach, etc. My mom makes a nice chunk of change every year teaching summer school a few days a week because they can never get any other people who will do it.
 
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BreatheUT said:
It's hard to believe some of this stuff is real.
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Not when you understand the left knows it must drive a wedge between parents and children; it gets worse. Numerous schools systems literally conceal gender dysphoria and sexual orientation from parents, and encourage and affirm the student's tendency, stating the child regardless of age should have that autonomy. People in the education, political, and medical arenas openly encourage pubertal blocking and even surgical reassignment procedures at perversely young ages, and that parents be barred from making a decision against the child's expressed wishes.

The nuclear family is an enormous obstacle to a Marxian world; these people mean to psychologically own your children. You're just a birthing, clothing, feeding and sheltering vessel for their technocratic offspring.
 
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Vol423 said:
While that number might be a little high, it actually doesn't sound too shocking to me. Now, as a teacher, what % of teachers do you believe do a horrible job?
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The ones that don't smoke pot after a long day at school. Sorry don't have a %.
 
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Just finished a student teacher observation. I hate to do it, but I'm going to have to fail the intern. Not once did their lesson discuss racial issues, make the students feel bad about their origins, create or suggest entitlement, or encourage socialist values.

They wasted their time working on steady beat proprioception and gross motor skills and tempo identification. What a waste of a good chance at indoctrination.
 
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allvol123 said:
Yes, I’m the criminal here. Same route @AshG took. It is me, the parent, the problem.

You’ve passed the test, I know you’re in education.
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You give off the same vibes as the mother who tried to get me fired for altering footage of the cafeteria cameras to make it look like her little apple dumpling dumped food on the kid next to him.

Spoiler alert: three camera angles all showed the same thing.

To quote my principal, if I had that kind of ability I'd be working for Pixar instead of that school system.

I've worked with great parents. I've worked with hostile parents. I've encouraged parents to come visit my class at their leisure and sit and watch. If a parent with your attitude came in, I'd do everything in my power to make them feel at home and comfortable.

I've learned there are some people you just can't please, even when your back cracks from all the bending over backwards.
 
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AshG said:
You give off the same vibes as the mother who tried to get me fired for altering footage of the cafeteria cameras to make it look like her little apple dumpling dumped food on the kid next to him.

Spoiler alert: three camera angles all showed the same thing.

To quote my principal, if I had that kind of ability I'd be working for Pixar instead of that school system.

I've worked with great parents. I've worked with hostile parents. I've encouraged parents to come visit my class at their leisure and sit and watch. If a parent with your attitude came in, I'd do everything in my power to make them feel at home and comfortable.

I've learned there are some people you just can't please, even when your back cracks from all the bending over backwards.
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Not sure what my attitude is but glad you do.

Nothing about your story is relevant to my dealings with my school system. I’ve made requests that I considered rather routine and common sense with regards to improving the educational results for a child. Only to be met with a brick wall of cooperation.

Please take your shot at my crazy request of being able to receive a test after it is taken. Please, using your professional experience in education, tell me the craziness in my request.
 
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allvol123 said:
Please, using your professional experience in education, tell me the craziness in my request.
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I have no problem restating my professional opinion that absolutely nothing in your request of the teacher or skill was in any way unreasonable. With the exception of state standardized testing (because of state law) it is your parental right to see the outcome of an assignment, including all marks and comments by the teacher or grader on the assignment.

It is not up to you to provide any argument for seeing your child's work. It is the responsibility of the school system to provide a legally sound and compelling reason why you should not, and I assure you they will not be able to do so.

I know you don't like me. I know you can't stand me. But I am still willing to help you get this wrong fixed regardless of your opinion of me. Standing offer, whenever you're willing to consider it.
 
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AshG said:
I have no problem restating my professional opinion that absolutely nothing in your request of the teacher or skill was in any way unreasonable. With the exception of state standardized testing (because of state law) it is your parental right to see the outcome of an assignment, including all marks and comments by the teacher or grader on the assignment.

It is not up to you to provide any argument for seeing your child's work. It is the responsibility of the school system to provide a legally sound and compelling reason why you should not, and I assure you they will not be able to do so.

I know you don't like me. I know you can't stand me. But I am still willing to help you get this wrong fixed regardless of your opinion of me. Standing offer, whenever you're willing to consider it.
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Loudoun County parents required to sign type of NDA to view CRT-affiliated curriculum

What do you think of this?
 
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AshG said:
I have no problem restating my professional opinion that absolutely nothing in your request of the teacher or skill was in any way unreasonable. With the exception of state standardized testing (because of state law) it is your parental right to see the outcome of an assignment, including all marks and comments by the teacher or grader on the assignment.

It is not up to you to provide any argument for seeing your child's work. It is the responsibility of the school system to provide a legally sound and compelling reason why you should not, and I assure you they will not be able to do so.

I know you don't like me. I know you can't stand me. But I am still willing to help you get this wrong fixed regardless of your opinion of me. Standing offer, whenever you're willing to consider it.
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The school system has to provide nothing other than a “no” and felt no reason to justify it, nor could they.

I honestly do not “dislike” you. We disagree on plenty but I don’t dislike you. You come across as a reasonable person.
 
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allvol123 said:
The school system has to provide nothing other than a “no” and felt no reason to justify it, nor could they.

I honestly do not “dislike” you. We disagree on plenty but I don’t dislike you. You come across as a reasonable person.
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Thank you; I take that as high praise from you.

The school system isn't providing a reason because it can't provide a reason. I'm not going to ask you for any identifying information, but the several southern states education laws I looked up this afternoon all bend in the direction of the parent.

Any teacher, principal, or administrator who puts in effort to not have a positive relationship with their students' parents is an idiot.
 
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AshG said:
Thank you; I take that as high praise from you.

The school system isn't providing a reason because it can't provide a reason. I'm not going to ask you for any identifying information, but the several southern states education laws I looked up this afternoon all bend in the direction of the parent.

Any teacher, principal, or administrator who puts in effort to not have a positive relationship with their students' parents is an idiot.
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Man I went down every road I could find. Nashville, DC, whatever I could find. Read through laws, etc.

It came down to subjective terminology like “reasonable”. Their reasonable effort was them allowing me to come to the school at a scheduled time to review the test. Which defeats the whole idea of my goal, which is to sit down at our convenience at home and thoroughly go through mistakes and prevent them in the future via repetitive practice.

Yearlong struggle. Went thru every layer of the school system. I gave up. They won.

My mindset has changed. While I worry about grades, I don’t as much as I used to. I view their education mostly as just between my child and me now. School is just something they have to visit everyday now and maybe once in a while they find a good teacher.
 
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AshG said:
I have no problem restating my professional opinion that absolutely nothing in your request of the teacher or skill was in any way unreasonable. With the exception of state standardized testing (because of state law) it is your parental right to see the outcome of an assignment, including all marks and comments by the teacher or grader on the assignment.

It is not up to you to provide any argument for seeing your child's work. It is the responsibility of the school system to provide a legally sound and compelling reason why you should not, and I assure you they will not be able to do so.

I know you don't like me. I know you can't stand me. But I am still willing to help you get this wrong fixed regardless of your opinion of me. Standing offer, whenever you're willing to consider it.
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That's 2 posts that you've made in a row that I've liked. One or both of us must be seriously ill.
 
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