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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you "volunteered" because you thought it would curry you favors with the principal with class placement? If you'd just stuck to sharing about how frustrated you were that your communicated request for separating your child from another wasn't met, I would have offered some helpful advice. But you had to throw in the part about expecting some preferential treatment because you volunteered.

You're an idiot, OP. You fail to see how your kid will be fine, even with some kids who learn differently. Even worse, though, is that you're an entitled idiot. Please stay in MD.

-Principal of a Title 1 school in Fairfax[/quote]

I think you're the idiot here, although OP is certainly way too entitled.  I started volunteering for the same reason, because truthfully many fcps principals do grant favors to the PTA parents.  However, I soon learned that it wasn't so much about favors as about avoiding an unhappy parent who might make waves.  Many parents will never speak up, no matter what you do, but a parent that goes to the trouble to be in the school all the time is likely also to have the ability to cause trouble for an uncooperative or just not so great principal.  Many principals need to learn that like it or not, there is a customer service element to the job. While I agree the children of PTA moms don't deserve special treatment, ALL children deserve to have the best possible placement, and if you are going to screw someone over then you screw over the pta moms at your own risk.  [/quote]

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