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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers should not be friends with parents. Friendly, honest, respectful, yes. They are professionals, they need to remain professional. The worst classroom experience is when you know the teacher is buddies with -some- of the parents.
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Yes, that sounds annoying. Agree teachers should be aware of this. Some parents will also go out of their way to try and cultivate those friendships with teachers, which is gross to see, because while I guess there is some chance they just recognized a kindred spirit and wanted a new friend, 9 times out of 10 they are doing it because they want advantages for their kid, which is pretty tiresome.

Though one thing I have experienced that is no ones fault but is still hard is when many of the kids in class have older siblings at the school who have been through that teacher's classroom before. It's great when there are at least a couple veteran parents with that teacher in the family group because they can help the rest of you know what's going on. But I've been in the situation where literally more than half the kids had siblings who had been in the classroom before, and it can really make you (and your kid!) feel like the odd one out. Also, in that situation, often people don't explain things and just assume you know things, because so many of the other families do, and it adds to that sense of feeling lost. Again, no one's fault really, but definitely heightens that feeling of being the new kid coming into very established relationships and not feeling like you fit in.[/quote]

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