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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ +1 I've grown up in FCPS and now as a parent I see that we have such an "entitled" group of parents.

Who are you to choose to rewrite curriculum just for your child? If you feel so strongly that it's wrong, talk to the teacher, talk to the principal, talk to the PTA or school board.  OR get off your but, run for a PTA office, or school board.

If you want to dictate your child's curriculum that much, then home school.  All this opting out of things that aren't optional simpy creates entitled children who think they can dictate what work they do and do not do later.

I agree that HW in K has gotten rediculous, as have the standards for our K students.  However, this was created by parent's pushing for more advanced work for little darlas who they think are so gifted that they can read early etc.  So blame yourselves, not the teachers. [/quote]

I am on the board of our PTA.  The PTA has no power whatsoever to make suggestions regarding educational policy or, really, anything.  We have, and I have, but the principal simply shoots everything down.  I am also a teacher, and I strongly support parents' rights to have input into their children's education.  Parents should not keep quiet or homeschool when they don't like things - they should speak up.  They should take action.  And as I've discovered, being president of the PTA doesn't make one darn bit of difference.  And none of this was created by parents pushing for more work - it's all come out of NCLB and similar.  Govenment/corporate reform trickling down to the lowest grades.  Writing letters and signing petitions isn't doing it - we've been doing this for years.  It's going to take more than that, and sitting around saying that parents who complain are "entitled" and should simply join the pta or write a letter or something is the mindset that allows this situation to continue and to snowball into something worse and worse.  So I blame people like you - the proverbial sheep, who don't want to rock the boat and trust authority unquestioningly.  [/quote]

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