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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids attend two Big 3s and both have the philosophy that parents should not be involved in any conversations between students and teachers/coaches.

When teachers/coaches are snarky, inappropriate, or even verbally abusive, the students are supposed to handle it themselves. Students are even punished if parents get involved.

Supposedly this is all in the name of student empowerment but say what you will even a 18 yr old is not on the same footing as a teacher or coach. This seems a perfect way for teachers/coaches to avoid accountability.

On the flip side I get that some parents are privileged PITAs and whine over every little thing making teachers’ lives a misery and wasting their time.

How can schools find a better way than telling students and parents in a blanket way that parents should not be involved in conversations with teachers/coaches?[/quote]

Problem is they do not tell the Board Members to butt out so there is an imbalance. The board members and their very opinionated spouses tend to have a lot of say and input in every single thing at the school (including changing dates of events to suit their schedule) while the regular non vip parents have zero say. [/quote]

HOS should not have their main role be fundraising. What happens is they end up spending all of their time with the board members and those vips donating large sums instead of getting to know all of the students. So embarrassing after a game last year and the HOS was sucking up to the large donors and vips kids at the game and barely spoke to the rest of the students on the team. [/quote]

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