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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is kind of a no-win.  You are failing to acknowledge the fact that most of the professionals you name are ethical, well-meaning, hard-working, and on the side of parents.  It's as if you think there is going to be an outpouring from each and every therapist, educator, and administrator of secrets they can't wait to unburden themselves about in which parents are duped and children mistreated.   I'm cynical, but I'm not this cynical.

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Thank you for this. I'm an administrator at a Title I school where we don't have parents coming to meetings with lawyers or advocates. Our parents, many of them immigrants, place a great deal of trust in what we say. That is a trust I hold sacred.  I take my job as an advocate for children very seriously and have built my entire career around doing what I believe is best for children. I was raised to be an ethical, caring and hard working person. This is what is expected of the teachers I supervise. As a parent, I get that we want the best for our children. I really get it. We work really hard at our school to try to get that right every day. I find that colleagues who support us outside our school are also working at that same level. There are no secrets or confessions I can think of that need to be aired. If I did hold onto something I saw as wrong, and didn't work to correct it, then I'd be complicit in perpetuating that harm. That's not how I operate. [/quote]

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