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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. Teachers blame parents for putting too much pressure on them, but then want to be called experts. Yet aren't willing to use their expertise for anything. So then why do I have to consider them experts? I'm happy to do so, but only if they are going to use their expertise to help children and not just their own salary.[/quote]

And based on your post, you clearly aren't using your parental "expertise" to raise your own children.

Thanks for supporting the FACT that teachers can only do so much with YOUR children.

Happy New Year and much luck raising your kids.[/quote]

Teachers are within their rights to discuss their own internal meetings and they have the power to discuss what is and isn't working. You have proven nothing except that teachers are afraid to speak up about anything and so just go along with the system and instead of working on making it better complain on media.  You've also proven absolutely nothing about my own parental expertise. [/quote]

I do speak up, which is apparent in my response to you, as I feel the need to defend my profession and my colleagues.

You, however, are shifting blame on teachers, which does indeed capture your parenting style quite well.

Much luck in 2018![/quote]

Not true at all. There is no blame. Parents really don't care that much about internal meetings. I just think teachers should be responsible for their internal meetings. I'm giving them more credit as professionals than you do. This is not about blame. It is about responsibility. [b]And you apparently don't think teachers are up to the task of taking responsibility for their own meetings.[/b][/quote]

NP. You don't get it. Once central office decides these meetings are mandatory, they're mandatory. Once someone sitting in an office who hasn't taught in years makes these decisions, they're written in stone.  Even if teachers contacted central office en masse they'd say something along the lines of "that's nice, but it's mandated". Or like a PP said they'd task teachers to spend even more time coming up with a proposal which they'd promptly reject. I can't tell you how many surveys I've completed, committees I've joined (uncompensated for my time), testified at BOE meetings, written to the superintendent etc. giving feedback which is completely ignored. They pay lip service to seeking feedback from all stakeholders, but it's only lip service when it comes to the people who actually have boots on the ground.  I didn't believe it until I started getting involved at the county level. Like you, I thought that they just weren't hearing enough feedback. They talk a good game when they act like they care what we say but they really don't care.

To say that "teachers aren't up to the task of taking responsibility for their own meetings" just shows that you have no experience as a teacher in a public school system. It's a completely different animal than other places of work that you may have experienced. If it worked the way you think it works, why would there be so much frustration and dissatisfaction?[/quote]

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