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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL, sweet teacher. It's funny. I asked my child's English teacher to contact me about his 2 learning disabilities back on Back to School night. She hasn't yet.

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Have you followed up since then? [b]That teacher probably had a dozen parents ask her the same thing[/b], god forbid she might forget to write down one or two.[/quote]

This is one of the reasons why BTSN is not the appropriate time to try to have an individual conversation about your child. It is meant to be a chance for parents to see the classroom, meet the teacher, and hear an overview of the year for ES or course for secondary school.

There is no way that I would be able to work a normal duty day, prepare a presentation for parents, drive back to school, go through the presentation five times, answer parents' general and specific questions, get home at 10 pm, return to work at 7:30 the next day, teach another full day, and somehow remember that a specific parent asked me verbally to contact them about their child.[/quote]

I do hear what you're saying, but please realize that that is what most people do at their jobs most days. If that feels unreasonable to you or if you don't remember things when raised in those contexts, perhaps you should affirmatively tell people to contact you only via email or phone messages so that you can remember better.  I have certainly needed to do that when having a harried day, or if I don't feel a particular question will make it onto my to do list if I don't ask for it in writing or by appointment. If you don't alert parents, though, they may not know that their questions are slipping through the cracks do to your memory and other commitments.[/quote]

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