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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. The people on this thread are definitely in the minority. I have never received an apology from a parent who later learned they were wrong about something. Not once.[/quote]

Wow, really? Last year I showed up to DD's Back to School Night in a HORRIBLE rage, and honestly, was so rude to her teachers, specifically one. I apologized to him in person two days later, flat out saying, "I'm sorry I was such an asshole the other night. I have five hundred reasons why, but none of them really excuse how I treated you." He kindly accepted my apology and got along swimmingly for the rest of the year. I can't imagine how much worse and awkward things would have been if I hadn't apologized. [/quote]

curious..why were you so mad?[/quote]

As I said, five hundred reasons. Here are the top six:
1. I can't learn shit lecture-style and this was sitting in a cafeteria while various school people lectured us. 
2. I vehemently hate the school and think it's pathetic 
3. I was overheated
4. I was disgusted by the behavior of other parents (really? taking a phone call right there in the 'audience' while someone is talking?)
5. It was REALLY long (they cut it this year)
6. Each teacher who talked made me more and more upset/angry/worried/enraged about DD's education

The San Francisco public school system is awful, and we are stuck in it. DD is at a public charter, a middle school that's supposed to be considered one of the best publics here, and last year at the end of sixth grade she was doing math I did in 3rd or 4th grade. She wasn't pushed academically, just organizationally and workload-wise. At this year's Back to School night I was much better at keeping my mouth shut. [/quote]

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