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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who have an issue with how I do something and CC the principal. And the spineless principal bends over backwards for them and berates me.

- LCPS[/quote]

Or, worse, the ones who CC the counselor. Um, they aren’t my superior. We are colleagues. Telling on me to them does nothing, they’re in no position of authority. They can’t make me change my grade. They don’t even know what the heck is going on in my classes to have any input into my grading. [/quote]

Huh.
This one suprises me.  I cc'd the counselor on an email to my child's teacher just last week.  It had nothing at all to do with "telling on" the teacher.  It had to do with the fact that the child's struggle with school work is impacting him emotionally, and I'm hoping that both professionals can help my kid.  Why would you assume that a parent is telling on you, rather than trying to get all the adults who care for the child to have the same shared set of facts?[/quote]

Because those are not the emails I’m talking about. I’m talking about the ones that say “my child worked hard and got a 70 on this. Explain.” How is the counselor supposed to address that? [/quote]

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