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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
The only important thing is that the teacher should be responsive to questions about a child's specific issues. I say this as a parent of a child with special needs. My child needs accommodations and sometimes I need feedback on how these are working, or sometimes there is a crisis and we need to meet urgently.

On the other hand, parents in the classroom are a distraction, more often than not, despite volunteer training. Our elementary school rarely has parents in the classroom, instead there are professional aides who ably second the teachers. Our school won and award last year for most parent volunteer hours, so there are plenty of other ways to get involved.
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+1. I have a child with some issues and one with none (so far). with the first I request a meeting with the teacher the first week of school every year, keep a very open communication, invite teacher to write if there is any problem or anything we should help the child with at home and so on. so far (5th grade) all the teachers appreciated and told me that meeting and working together was useful, although child also has an IEP.  for second child, I go to back to school night, and parent-teacher conference. never requested a meeting, never wrote the teacher an e-mail and so on. child is doing fine so far and I just let the teacher do her job, no need for me to get involved.  I work full time so I would not have time to volunteer in Class during the day  (other than the random chaperoning of a school trip), but a teacher and an aide should be able to handle the job, especially if the teacher is good and effective as you are saying.  why so you care where the child eat or where the stations are in Class? If there are no issues and there is no need for extra help from parents, I  am siding more with the teacher on this.  [/quote]

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