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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. No there are no special credentials beyond what you are teaching. SPED teachers need their credentials. ESOL is the same. But the K-6 folks, a license is a license. And the talk about special credentials or whatever is nonsense. We are the same.

I know there is a lot of saying well those parents aren't as great so your parents who do all of this are just better unless you believe poor people or non-native English speaks will never catch up (spoiler alert -- they can).

It's the wrong tack. You are being screwed wealthy parents. The SOL scores, the great school scores, the whole these kids all do well "Lake Webgone mentality is so, so problematic because we just push everything to you. You will get the tutor. Unless you complain, no one is calling an IEP meeting (this is the thing that makes me the most crazy). I hate this. I hate that advocating is second because the data says we are the best of the best. [/quote]

Yes, you are correct on the teachers and principal, but I think most parents in our area know this, accept this and prefer the competition and safe neighborhood and peer group to better teachers. The prefer to subsidize the poor rather than live around them. The ones who can afford better go private so they can have it all. But there are issues with private too even if you take out the cost. There's something unique about attending your neighborhood school compared to other schools that pull from a larger area.

Our principal recently said to a bunch of parents that all these title 1 teachers come up to her and remark how it must be so easy at our school because our kids are so prepared, but how they didn't know how bad it was to deal with the parents. She said this to us and then in an article spoke about how the parents made our school so great. No mention of how much slack the parents are picking up despite the fact that the IEP push off is a regular thing among other issues. Last year the I-ready scores came back worse at the end of the year than at the beginning.

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