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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principals suck. They will support their staff over a student/parent. I’ve rarely had a good interaction even if I was right.  [/quote]

Sure.  I bet you love it if your boss throws you under the bus.[/quote]

You do what’s right you don’t just support the teacher, the schools should be about the kids not like running a business. [/quote]

Maybe what's right is supporting the teacher?[/quote]

DP.  I'm very supportive of teachers, but let's be honest - not every teacher is a gem.  There are plenty of duds, just as there are in any workplace.  My kids have had some absolutely amazing teachers, and they've also had a couple who should really never have been around children at all. [/quote]

While this is true, there are a lot of very demanding and difficult parents that make both teachers and administrators lives a living hell.

If this teacher did not update the grade book for weeks for on time assignments and the OP had contacted them first, admin contact is appropriate.  In this case, we know they were not mature enough to reach out the teacher first and don't even know if they child did.  We also do not know if this was an on time assignment or a late assignment. We also don't know what the timeframe is.  Are we talking a week or multiple weeks?  So yes, principals do need to support teachers when parents are being unrealistic and set the expectations of how communication should occur (i.e. go to the teacher first).  It sounds like this is what the principal did in this case. [/quote]

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