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Speaking for myself, I likewise thought the "what qualifications do parents have" question came across as condescending, patronizing and denigrating toward concerned parents as presented, and it's no surprise it garnered an angry response.

Clearly there are strong feelings here, and clearly some parents have a strong desire to get the basics right (and yes, some aspects of functional proficiency can indeed be objectively tested for, such as understanding of parts of speech, solving a math problem et cetera) before expanding into the subjective and the theoretical.
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OK, fair point. you are threatened by questions that, uh, question your qualifications and your response is to assume that those questions are condescending, patronizing and denigrating.

Although, if you look back at those questions, they are nothing more that questions that you feel threaten you. They are very important questions, right? The fact that you can't answer them doesn't make them any less important questions, right? You may not not know the answers, and clearly you don't, but that doesn't mean these are the questions we should be asking.

Your apparent confusion about the subjective and the theoretical underlines the problem.

Parents are not qualified to judge a truly effective school. [/quote]

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