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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop blaming teachers. By HS, students know what they need to do, the just choose not to do it. They think sports is a priority, their phone, their friends, etc., not their school work.

What did we do before parentvue?

Parents need to take responsibility of their kids. Show teachers some respect, then students will learn to respect teachers.  [/quote]

Before ParentVUE we had textbooks and not a blizzard of mishmash handouts for every class.[/quote]

We had handouts in the 80s.  Xeroxed.  I remember at the end of the year, throwing away folders of papers.  Don't act like we didn't have handouts before.  You gotta move into the new century.  We all gotta keep up with technology.

It's not technology that is holding us back, it's parents who don't discipline their kids, kids who don't respect adults, too many phones during class time.

Parents taking kids on vacation during the school year and expecting the teacher to follow up with the kids individually.  We didn't take a vacation during the school year.  We focused on school.

Parent expectation is unreal.

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Most of us discipline our kids, restrict and monitor phones and reach out to teachers to check on our kids and work together.

We haven’t had a vacation, even a weekend away in 8 years.  Not even during the summer.

Textbooks are helpful.  For history we have them and they are great.  Math too but teachers choose not to use them.

As a teacher it’s on you to control your classroom and find ways to reach students.  Stop blaming parents.  Plenty of teachers are strict and control phones.  Sounds like a you problem and you need to rethink what you do.

And that summer vacation money you have, we spend it on tutors to make up for the bad curriculum and teaching.  [/quote]

Not PP, but I am a parent and see the poor behavior of some kids. I’ve seen kids hiding their phone under their desk. Teachers know. They are not stupid. It’s an endless battle. They can’t keep fighting the fight. It’s exhausting. Burnout is real. They do rethink what they do and leave. That’s how classes end up with subs for the remainder of the year.

YouTube has tons of videos for all the AP classes. That how my kids got 4s and 5s. What school requires so much tutors?

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So, your kids learned calc bc no issues with just videos?   That’s great, it did not work for mine so we got a tutor.  [/quote]

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