Fairfax County: McLean Citizens Association demands smaller class sizes

[Anonymous]

No, seriously - you liked teaching at LEE?? You must be an administrator.

No, I'm a teacher. I had some very sweet students. Students will treat you respectfully if you treat them the same way. Sure, I bent a few of the "rules", but my students knew that I had their backs and so they had mine. Things like letting them eat breakfast in my room (because they didn't get it at home).

[Anonymous]

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It's not just about you and your kids. Your's and FCPS's inability to work with these families to help them understand what is needed for their children to succeed and give them the tools to help their children themselves is causing other children and teachers to have undue stress during the school day.

I'm not going to chastise my neighbors. Perhaps FCPS should mandate parental involvement?

Are you just acting dumb? At our school the teacher gives weekly assignment homework and often sheets with instructions on how to help your child with a specific task. Yours could be more often and in English and Spanish with a cover sheet asking parents to work with their child particularly on topics A,B, and C with some short instructions on how to do so. Ideas for what to do with them on the weekends to support their learning. Do you not do this already? What is being done to facilitate the parents helping their children? I don't get it. People act like we should welcome immigrants and help them as much as possible, but then act like they're dumb as rocks. I'm sure these parents want to help their children. They just need some guidance.

I help MY child with everything that she needs perfectly well, thank you very much.

If you are a parent why would you chastise your neighbors? You can help them of course if you speak their language. If you are a teacher, then yes, I think you should get involved in helping these parents help their children be successful whether they ask for help or not. You don't chastise them, you help them. I don't understand why an entire program needs to be developed especially for a school with 16 kids in a class with a teacher and assistant in each one. There is no program at our school. Just a teacher, some paper, and an email address. If the majority of these parents drop off and pick up their kids, you can even talk to them at the beginning or end of the day.

Some families flee trauma. Not of their own making. When a poor country fails, the state falls to a coup, small guerilla groups take over. The men at the top often rape the mothers and the children. These mothers in turn often have a hard time mothering. You, me, we were just lucky to be born where we were born, into the family we born into, with the biology we were born with.

I was born in South America, into a middle class family. I didn't have that experience. However, my best friend, born in Central America, did. He's a doctor, thank you very much. Yes, in the US. He was born with a gifted biology. That's luck of the draw.

We both graduated in computer engineering. My son has autism.

Until you walk in someone else's shoes... There go I but for the mercy of God...