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My child is a student at a close in school. You sound like some of the teachers I encounter. You hurt and not help.

**I push for my child to be in advanced sections because the basic curriculum as presented is so easy that when provided a workbook from the store that is her same grade level, the workbook has harder problems. These are your generic workbooks one can find at the Barnes and Noble and are slated as "practice".  I would rather my child be presented with advanced work and do ok than easy work and sail through. Life can't always be easy and teaching kids to work up to a better grade shouldn't be seen as wrong.

**I push for my child to be in advanced sections because as the classroom teacher you are abysmal at controlling classroom behavior and the advanced sections have students that are more academic focused, are in a smaller group, provide more true instruction and behavior issues are minimized as the teacher has less behavior issues to deal with overall.

**TPT is actually a very good site for finding materials that present subject matter in different ways that can appeal to different students. It also highlights teachers work from around the country. why are you opposed to peer learning? I am professional and I take advantage of opportunities to learn from peers in other orgs about different methods, programs that work,  etc.[/quote]

NP here. I'll add to your list.
** Parents push to get their kids into the higher groups because they understand that admission to magnets is much harder from the lower groups. And this will impact the child's opportunities for high school and beyond.

BUT, much of what you've described sounds like a problem with MoCo and MoCo Families -- not with teachers. MoCo writes the curriculum and prescribes certain activities and the extent of peer learning (which does exist in MoCo, despite what you say). The bad behavior is actually partly a problem with inattentive parents who don't discipline their kids. I'm a WOHM myself and this isn't a slam against working parents, just bad parenting in general.  I've heard teachers describe horrific behavior that is basically uncontrollable, and I've seen it in my own kid's elementary school, I've talked with the teachers about how to help the rest of the class not be distracted by the time-suck of badly-behaved kids, and I've heard about the parental cluelessness of these badly-behaved kids. I'm not saying there isn't sometimes a teacher problem, but that's not the only piece of the problem.

I also have a lot of sympathy for teachers up against parents who think their kids are snowflakes. I say this as the parent of two kids who have gone through several magnets each. [/quote]

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