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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers can't win.  If they give advanced work to kids who have mastered a subject, they are questioned.  If they don't give advanced work to those kids, they are questioned.  [/quote]

We have every right to question.  Questioning is better than attacking IMO.[/quote]

You have the right to question.  Though it doesn't make it less annoying.  The teachers, who are following a Curriculum designed by administrators, have to take the hits and that is rough because no matter what they do someone will complain.  Why not question the administrators instead?  And by that, I mean questiinging whether the Curriculum is realistic.  It is too easy for the administration to say, "well, that is not right, the teacher should be gearing tasks to each child and dividing her time accordingly," without any suggestion as to how that can actually get done.  I'm not a teacher, but I feel for them, because they are always caught in the middle.   [/quote]

OP here.  Yes, the teachers do seem to be caught in the middle. I think I'm coming to the same conclusion about questioning the administration as to whether the curriculum is realistic and whether my DH and I want to pull DD from public and find a private that would be a better fit.

I saw my DD's teacher pulled in about 7 different directions at once.  No child really got any undivided attention (even the 2 she pulled aside to do the more advanced work).  I really saw a need for at least one teachers aid in the classroom (and I'm not delusional--I realize that simply won't be happening).  The thing that I don't understand is how it's assessed that a child(ren) have already mastered the curriculum currently being taught?  Have the children been tested?  I ask b/c the concept the teacher was going over with the two children she pulled out is one I know my child has mastered already.  I know my child sometimes speaks up in class but will usually not, so how the heck would the teacher know if she already knew something?[/quote]

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