Teachers How Many Overbearing Helicopter Parents do you have

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Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am so glad that you are so invested in Larla's success in the classroom. I appreciate your desire for prompt and regular communication from me, but unfortunately with 25 students, a full-time teaching schedule and all the administrative duties, I do not have time to have daily communication with every parent. Please continue to send your messages to me and I will review them and respond as my other duties allow. When there is an urgent need, I will communicate with you promptly. Thank you for your understanding.

Mrs. Jones.

Please cut it out with Larla it's annoying

No. Deal with it.

Think it's the same person posting with Larla and agree that it's annoying. We can all do without it.

Are you new here? Larla is a dcum standard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am so glad that you are so invested in Larla's success in the classroom. I appreciate your desire for prompt and regular communication from me, but unfortunately with 25 students, a full-time teaching schedule and all the administrative duties, I do not have time to have daily communication with every parent. Please continue to send your messages to me and I will review them and respond as my other duties allow. When there is an urgent need, I will communicate with you promptly. Thank you for your understanding.

Mrs. Jones.

Please cut it out with Larla it's annoying

No. Deal with it.

Think it's the same person posting with Larla and agree that it's annoying. We can all do without it.

Are you new here? Larla is a dcum standard.

Seriously. Who are these weirdos? Larla IS DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know. My DC us in private school that constantly proclaims to us that they have individualized approach to kids.

Teachers make us fill out forms every year “What are your child’s strength?” “What do I need to know about your child?” “What does your child struggle with?”

I call this BS. In the several years the school has NEVER stepped up when DC struggled with something. Not once did they notify me and make suggestions. Not once did they offer tutoring.

In fact, they never bothered to notice that two years in a row DC tested poorly in grammar in standardized tests and fails in daily grams for two grades below. Yet DC had As in language arts.

I think it’s a lie that in a private school kids get more attention and individualized teaching.

So I as a parent have to stay vigilant and pay attention when DC is starting to slip in some class. Because no one else will notice until they get a C at the end of quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are the parents that don't speak up for fear of retribution. We have multiple kids in our k-12, Private is a very serious financial investment for our family yet we do not feel empowered to speak up for our kids for fear of being labeled trouble-makers.

You don't see a difference between speaking up about bullying vs. homeroom teacher assignments?

[Anonymous]

Snotty entitled teachers and overbearing demanding parents should be paired with each other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do wonder if teachers appreciate parents who mostly keep quiet except the rare occasion something important comes up (maybe once or twice a year). Sometimes I feel like we are overlooked and the whole squeaky wheel thing. But still, it’s not my personality to badger teachers and I wouldn’t send my kid to the school if I didn’t trust them to handle most things.

Our school lost that trust pretty quickly. They keep parents in the desk about all the classroom antics, behavior problems, and bullying as well as academic standards or lack thereof. They don’t even disclose substitute teacher days, or weeks, to parents of young children. Then when they do, they look like fools who kept a secret for two weeks of zero transparency.

Lots of secrets and Do Not Contact Us messaging at our private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know. My DC us in private school that constantly proclaims to us that they have individualized approach to kids.

Teachers make us fill out forms every year “What are your child’s strength?” “What do I need to know about your child?” “What does your child struggle with?”

I call this BS. In the several years the school has NEVER stepped up when DC struggled with something. Not once did they notify me and make suggestions. Not once did they offer tutoring.

In fact, they never bothered to notice that two years in a row DC tested poorly in grammar in standardized tests and fails in daily grams for two grades below. Yet DC had As in language arts.

I think it’s a lie that in a private school kids get more attention and individualized teaching.

So I as a parent have to stay vigilant and pay attention when DC is starting to slip in some class. Because no one else will notice until they get a C at the end of quarter.

+1000 at our Washington DC private school. We had to do external testing, then took four years of BS lazy teacher emails saying “everything is great, so on track”. We left of course and never put our younger two children in the school. We hoped it got better but it never did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are the parents that don't speak up for fear of retribution. We have multiple kids in our k-12, Private is a very serious financial investment for our family yet we do not feel empowered to speak up for our kids for fear of being labeled trouble-makers.

You don't see a difference between speaking up about bullying vs. homeroom teacher assignments?

Ha! We spoke up about a bully and incidences one year, the teacher was quite aware of them too but never told us.

Then our child got the bully in the class assignment the following year!

[Anonymous]

I hope some of the parents you complain about know their ESSA rights and start making classroom observations. Some of you sound terrible!

[Anonymous]

And yet you keep teaching at or sending your children to your schools? Is it worth the harassment/fear/lack of support (for teachers or parents or students)?

I guess so. You have choices but you stay. And complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope some of the parents you complain about know their ESSA rights and start making classroom observations. Some of you sound terrible!

What are ESSA rights? We don’t even get graded work or tests back, just a It’s Done checkmark.

Guess we should pay a tutor to grade it and revise it with the student.

Maybe this is part of the equity mission and the school only provides so much or so little, but advances its mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s a lie that in a private school kids get more attention and individualized teaching.

Not a lie at our school at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know. My DC us in private school that constantly proclaims to us that they have individualized approach to kids.

Teachers make us fill out forms every year “What are your child’s strength?” “What do I need to know about your child?” “What does your child struggle with?”

I call this BS. In the several years the school has NEVER stepped up when DC struggled with something. Not once did they notify me and make suggestions. Not once did they offer tutoring.

In fact, they never bothered to notice that two years in a row DC tested poorly in grammar in standardized tests and fails in daily grams for two grades below. Yet DC had As in language arts.

I think it’s a lie that in a private school kids get more attention and individualized teaching.

So I as a parent have to stay vigilant and pay attention when DC is starting to slip in some class. Because no one else will notice until they get a C at the end of quarter.

yes, so much incompetence. It’s frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do wonder if teachers appreciate parents who mostly keep quiet except the rare occasion something important comes up (maybe once or twice a year). Sometimes I feel like we are overlooked and the whole squeaky wheel thing. But still, it’s not my personality to badger teachers and I wouldn’t send my kid to the school if I didn’t trust them to handle most things.

Our school lost that trust pretty quickly. They keep parents in the desk about all the classroom antics, behavior problems, and bullying as well as academic standards or lack thereof. They don’t even disclose substitute teacher days, or weeks, to parents of young children. Then when they do, they look like fools who kept a secret for two weeks of zero transparency.

Lots of secrets a
nd Do Not Contact Us messaging at our private school.

A teacher using pto is none of your business. No communication with you is needed or expected.

[Anonymous]

Knowing who is spending time with our young children is our business.