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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher quits because many parents are severe high-level assholes. They are not willing to take it anymore. 
Also, many FCPS teachers hate to work.

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I think people on DCUM tend to overstate the asshole parents and understate student behavior. I've worked in schools at varying SES levels and I usually have a couple of difficult parents, most I never hear from at all.[/quote]

All it takes is a couple though. The one (thankfully her kid is not my student) who shows up 2-3 days every week with her phone out and recording, walking up to whatever staff she sees and demanding they say on camera they won’t make her kid wear a mask or get a covid vaccine? She alone would make me want to quit if I taught her kid.[/quote]
That’s a nightmare! Still I’d take 2-3 times a week for a short period over truly misbehaving, violent students for 5+ hours, 5 days a week.  [/quote]

Both of these are examples of why teachers and staff leave schools with terrible admin. What kind of principal or AP allows a parent to roll up and shove a camera in staff members' faces multiple times per week or doesn't act on it when teachers raise concerns about violence or repeated disruptions? [/quote]
SPED laws complicate things in many places, especially when parents fight more appropriate placements [/quote]

This. Dd had a kid with ODD in her class this year. Everything has been out of control all year. I’ve even seen the teacher crying. The classroom has been evacuated multiple times. Dd says there’s lots of yelling. I think the kid amps up the other kids too. I don’t want to deny a kid an education,  but something has got to give. The rest of the class can’t be denied an education either [/quote]
Nothing will change unless parents and teachers work together to put an end to this; but really we need more parents to stand up against it. It’s impossible to teach with one of these disruptive kids in the class, let alone more than one. And we are seeing an increase in the number of children like this in the classroom.[/quote]

I have a student like this in my class this year. Throwing chairs and desks, hitting students, destroying property. Did he get suspended? No (he has an IEP for behavior issues). Did he cause my class to evacuate 2-3 times a week for up to 2 hours each time? Yes. I was at my wits end.

Parents: please complain if this is occurring in your child’s class. I had parents complain and admin finally did something. They revised his IEP to put him in a separate SPED classroom. My class is back to “normal” and he is getting the additional support that he really did need. But I know none of that would have happened if parents didn’t complain. I’m so grateful to those families and everyone is better for it.[/quote]

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