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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The principal communicates (he cares about staying in his job).  It's the teachers that are hit or miss.  Many don't bother or delay / drag out speaking to parents until their child is in grade trouble and it's too late to do anything about it.[/quote]

What did you or others do when teachers didn't bother speaking to parents? What grade was kid in? [/quote]

Do?  Pound sand.  Parents who have been in the system a while know the deal and it doesn't matter what grade level. It got really bad during covid because they couldn't fill a lot of the teacher slots, and MCPS still hasn't bounced back because of teachers quitting, bad covid hires, backfilling empty positions with qualified teachers, etc.

A good teacher schedules or emails right away without having to ask, but I can count those on one hand.  If the kid has a good teacher, the kid is doing well, or if not you don't have to reach out because they're already letting you know and either offering advice or offering a conference.

On the other hand the deadwood will say they're too busy grading, or you email or phone and they don't return the communication or schedule two weeks out, knowing that the timelimit of assignment makeups / changes, etc. is two weeks to impact, or they pull a jack-in-the-box grading stunt (not grading an assignment until the quarter is almost over).

Again, some teachers are really excellent, care about their students, and bend over backwards to help the kids succeed and improve.  But the teachers who are just ticket-punching couldn't care less.[/quote]

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