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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you involved your admin the second she asked for your schedule (and did not give it to her). That's the perfect opportunity for your admin to respond with something like "Ms. Payne, Teachers at Great Day are teaching and working with students from 7:30am - 3:30pm. It is not feasible for your child's teacher to respond to daily emails that are not critical in nature, but if you feel you need to speak about an urgent matter you can always email me, and if it is urgent I will arrange a meeting with you." Or whatever. You shouldn't even had to have responded to that egregious request. [/quote]

Yes, please do that, Teacher Poster. I hope this parent doesn't take out their obvious mental illness on their child. You can deal with it, you're a grown up and not living or dependent on this parent. But the poor child has to endure that level of anxiety and obsession day after day. Ugh.
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Teacher back.

Yes, I flagged for our assistant head of school. We have discussed a path forward and I am being supported by school leadership.

I send short, direct emails back at the end of the day in response. She’s not ruffling my feathers but a more junior teacher in the future may feel differently. Her child is sweet and well behaved. It seems that the parent wants to assert her dominance as opposed to a genuine concern or anxiety about her child. I respond to the emails not out of fear of her taking complaints above me, but in a direct - yet polite - way to enforce I take the lead in my classroom and do it for the betterment of all my students, not one. [/quote]

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