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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]With large classrooms parent volunteers in ES can make a big difference,[/b] and from what I read, when schools prohibit volunteers it is usually a bad sign of trying to avoid getting criticized.  Good schools typically welcome help, though with some limits, and Principals who ban volunteers are likely hoping to conceal weak teachers or other deficiencies.    [/quote]

This is very true.

If a principal bans volunteers, I'd be really suspicious of what is going on at that school.  What is he trying to hide?

Good teachers welcome the extra help, IME.[/quote]

Exactly.   
I think this is precisely why parents are not welcome at some schools in the classrooms on a regular basis (beyond parties or a parent presentation).

I had a meeting at school one morning, and went into my son's classroom afterwards (with the ok of the office staff, but unexpected to the teacher) to get my son's backpack while the class was at lunch.    
Apparently one child sat apart from the rest, adjacent to the door, with his desk up against the wall and his back to the class.    Seemed to me an odd, singled out placement.   When I questioned DS, he replied, "Oh, [kid name], he is really bad and that's why he has to sit there."    Who knows how long or what the back story was, but I am guessing that a daily parent volunteer or two might have expressed their surprise to kid's parents re what appeared to be a punitive seating arrangement.   And this was not a priority, no distractions, desk placement IMO.    And don't assume that boys tell us everything at home (meaning that child might not tell a parent about his seating assignment).    I wasn't aware the DS was kept in from recess for a period of time until I accidentally found out from another source.  For the amount of "independent" busy work in the composition book or on worksheets going on while the teacher did small reading groups during a 60+ minute session, it would have been wonderful to have had a parent volunteer to float among the rest of the students to answer questions, help those off-track to move along, etc.  [/quote]

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