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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the "please go away poster", and no, I'm not the same as the "go away" poster.

I agree with the PP - please read the thread carefully.

There are many of us on this board who have been burned and otherwise thwarted by the machine that is SN in MoCo (the only county I have experience with, so the only one I can speak to).  My kids have certainly had amazing teachers, and we are forever grateful to them.  But on balance, the SN system in MoCo has not met our childrens' needs.  And in some cases, set us back.  While I believe this has more to do with systemic issues rather than individuals, I have seen my share of teachers who do damage.

I don't think that anyone is violating the norms of the SN board.  [b]Replying to an administrator or educator is vastly different than supporting parents, or teachers who post to offer us support.[/b][/quote]

Administrators and educators are people, too - people who have a lot of experience working with SN kids.  As a PP noted, there are bad apples on both sides of the fence.  I've had my share of negative experiences with some of the school staff and never attend an IEP meeting without our consultant/advocate.  On the other hand, knowing some of the parents I do, I can easily imagine how difficult it is working with some of them.  Their posts shouldn't be limited to the rosy ones.

I'm more than happy to welcome administrators and educators to this forum and look forward to their insight and contributions.[/quote]

While I agree that admins and educators should be welcome in this forum, I think its important to remember that this is a parents support forum.  So in this particular circumstance, the OP was a teacher who posted nothing inappropriate, but the principal who replied to her (and now we have an educator speaking to an educator in a parents support forum) called the parents who live in this area (of this forum) "animals".  I mean geez, yeah, I would love and welcome educators on this board to post support or help, but really....we want free form allowing of blatant insults of the users of this forum, who are already in fragile shape--most of them in that position due to struggles with administration and educators? I don't think so. [/quote]

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