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[quote=Anonymous]I get that there are probably type-A, overly demanding parents out there, but at our school parents tend to push back not to request exceptions to policy, but rather to request that the school follow DCPS policy and the law.  At our school, parents push back when teachers and administrators do things like:

1. Casually talking or emailing with students and parents about details of other students' discipline situations and grades (in clear violation of FERPA).

2. Repeatedly, consistently and as a matter of policy violating DCPS published discipline guidelines --- and continuing to do so after the violation has been repeatedly pointed out to them.

3. Generally creating an environment of chaos in which parents are repeatedly called in at the last second to bail the school out of organizational disasters that teachers and admins have created out of sheer incompetence --- forgetting to order transportation for school events, forgetting to notify parents about field trips, scheduling multiple competing events for the same venue at the school, notifying parents of elementary-aged kids about after school activities (games, practices, clubs) the day of, so that they have to scramble to change pick-up plans, having a new and different process for parent teacher conference sign-ups EVERY DAMN TIME. And on, and on and on.

4.  Failing to grade work and failing to post grades to the grade reporting system until months after the work was due, so that students have no opportunity to fix missing assignments.  Giving students grades on their report cards after an entire grading period in which they have not received a single graded assignment back from the teacher.

Unfortunately, the above are daily or weekly occurrences at our school.  Many DCPS staff don't seem to get a basic truth of organizations: rules, policies and procedures exist to make life easier, more transparent and more consistent for everyone.  If teachers and admins bothered to learn and follow DCPS' written policies on things like discipline, student privacy, and ADA, much of this "bullying" would disappear.

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