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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe these teachers are from the private schools we're talking about on this board. No parent paying $25k+ would be ok with a teacher who thinks parents should never contact teachers. We pay for the privilege of bothering teachers and administrators a lot! Besides Sidwell/GDS/Beauvoir etc. request/insist that parents help out in the classroom all the time so we're always around and it is hard to hate us without us knowing. Intensive back and forth with parents is part of the job in expensive private schools at the lower school level.  Teachers who ignore parents get complained about and too many complaints mean no contract renewal. It's a different story by high school since the schools really expect the students to be accountable for themselves without parental involvement.[/quote]

There is not a single poster here who thinks parents should never contact teachers.  Even the PP who wrote "never" clarified that its because there are no issues.  You are creating a straw man.

The sign of the PITA parent is the idea that you've paid blah blah blah and so you are entitled to blah blah blah.  You do not own these teachers.  And you aren't even their bosses -- that would be the head of the school.  When you "bother the teacher a lot" you don;t do your child any favors.

I have "intensive contact" when there's a problem.  Actually, I should say I have contact when there's a problem.  If it requires a level of intensity I will set up a meeting.  This has happened once or twice.  I will shoot teacher's an email about things they should know ("DC's grandmother died over the weekend."  "DC is having a lot of anxiety about X." )  Thats it.

We've raised a generation of children under this parental microscope.  Its not healthy for them.  I have teens now and I see how this affects them later.  The rule of thumb should be, if they can do something on their own, let them do it own their own.  If things are going fine, don't get involved.  Accept that you are no longer involved in every minute of your child's life.[/quote]

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