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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ this is why parents don’t belong volunteering in classrooms [/quote]

On the contrary, it's why parents need to go in more.  They have no idea half the crazy stuff that happens in school, and teachers are not allowed to tell them.  [/quote]

First off, my child was both bored to death with being taught (talked) down to in every subject in a high FARMs school every day for 6 years.  That's tough to deal with as a parent of a gifted child but we can supplement that at home or find other means.  However, the problem we had was that our child had to deal with awful kids that were allowed to cause violence and mayhem in the classroom and the teachers had to shield these kids because of 1) ridiculous privacy laws (every parent and classmate [u]knows[/u] your kid is the bad egg already so not sure why this is so important); and 2) apparently these kids who physically and mentally torment other kids are snowflakes themselves according to their parents who often label them as the victims.  Otherwise why would you get so offensive?

Parents of regular students must go into the classroom if there is a kid like this and volunteer if for only one reason.  To stop blaming teachers for the lack of learning.  Teachers absolutely cannot reach borderline kids when they have no energy and low morale because selfish and entitled parents cite stupid inequitable laws instead of deferring to common sense and human decency.  Your one kid who is that socially unstable will not go on to have a good education and career.  However, you're taking that opportunity away from 20+ other kids who fall behind because of you, many of whom are URM or from households that don't have a history of going to college, and may need that one good year of learning [u]environment[/u] to kickstart their academic careers.

Yes, we have many problems with curriculum and some teachers.  Yes, general ed classes should be emphasizing education and not babysitting.  But it's hard to judge who are the good teachers if they're not able to actually teach.  It all starts with having classrooms set up for teachers to teach and not to police.  Oftentimes, whom the parents perceived as good teachers were actually just entertainers and not actually teaching any material.  And please, parents, don't come back with "my kids learned a lot."  Almost all of you don't even know what that means and you're just comparing it to some watered down SOL that is meaningless.[/quote]

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