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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I meet our high schoolers' teachers at open house and tell them they won't hear from me or see me again unless our kid is super struggling/failing and I need some feedback to support kid behind the scenes at home. If our kid is getting a passing in your class, I won't bother you for a teacher conference -- e.g., we're all good. Our student will do all speaking to you themselves about homework, assignments, tests, retakes, etc. I'm behind the scenes at home, only, so our kid learns resilience and how to speak up for themselves.

It's clear I am a rarity as a parent. [/quote]

Our HS had to eliminate "honors cords/sashes" for graduation.  Why?  Because "it wasn't fair that everyone didn't have a 3.5 or 3.75+ or 4.0".   It wasn't fair for the kids who didn't have the cords/sashes.  
The HS office literally had parents complaining to 9/10th grade teachers (about 1 month before their kid is graduating) demanding that they move that B+ to an A- (or the equivalent desire).  The office staff was dealing with verbally abusive parents, and lots of them.  
So they eliminated the chord wearing at graduation about 5 years ago.    If you/your kids are that upset that they have a green cord (or no chord) vs the kids with the Gold Chord (3.0-4.0) and cannot "deal with it" they are not very resilient and wont go far in life.  Especially when they had every ability themselves to actually earn the higher cord.  
My kids were fine, and can live without the chords, but the stupidity of the school not allowing recognition of academic excellence is just an example of how over involved parents have become.

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