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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last line of your post is very revealing.  You say you don't have kids of your own.  [b]Teachers don't have to have kids to be good teachers.  But, it sure helps.[/b]  You may know more about education than your student's parents, but isn't it a bit presumptuous of you to assume that you know more about their kids than they do?[/quote]

Nah. I was a teacher. (Not a good one.) I'm a parent. (A good one, I like to think.) They're two different things.

Would you say that parents don't have to be teachers to be good parents -- but it sure helps?[/quote]
As a parent you are an expert ON YOUR KID AND YOUR KID ALONE. A teacher may not be an expert on your kid, but over the course of a career will darn sure have taught and seen WAYYYYY MORE kids than you will ever parent.
And I am not a teacher, just a parent with some common damn sense.[/quote]

Yes, actually, that was the point I was making.  Parents are experts in their kids.  We spend more time with them than anyone else.  When we ask for something at school, please don't treat us like we're crazy or stupid.  The likelihood is that we actually know what we're talking about for OUR child.  I'm not asking the teacher to do anything different for other kids -- that's out of the scope of my responsibility.  But, when it comes to MY kid -- please treat me like I have at least as good a chance of knowing what I'm talking about as the teacher does.  [/quote]

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