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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ask parents to think about this: was your school experience perfect? Did you have ups and downs? Were some of your teachers better  for you than others? Did you experience issues with the kids at times? Were you always happy? Did the tough experiences help you later in life? Did your parents constantly intervene on your behalf, or did you need to sometimes figure things out for yourself? Is everything really a high stakes situation? Or is struggle part of growing up? Maybe the next time you sit down to write an angry email to the school, you should think about whether you are really helping your kid, or are you just fulfilling some need of your own. [/quote]

That last line. Parents take out deep rooted feelings on school administrators, teachers, other kids, other parents. This is what I think people mean when they say most of the parents who complain would be unhappy at any school: their deep rooted feelings go with them wherever the parents go. It’s not about the environment.[/quote]

…or sometimes school administrators and teachers screw up. I’m sure they would prefer to be left alone to screw up as much as they want.[/quote]

Sometimes. 9 times out of 10, if no one else in the community is complaining, it’s a parent issue.[/quote]

Schools can divide and conquer.  I worked for a private whose management culture included lying to everyone, just telling them what they wanted to hear and not fulfilling promises and pledges.  Each subgroup knew certain instances - parents, kids, teachers.  But very few knew that an overall pattern existed.

The school has lost literally hundreds of kids over the years, but painting that picture here is useful for parents who won't have the network to hear about the culture until their kids are in the middle of it.

That school promoted a staffer from that era to HOS now.  You can assume the culture hasn't changed.[/quote]

Exactly this or sometimes parents are new to a school and don’t feel comfortable yet or school culture is competitive and parents don’t want to potentially out that their child is having an issue to other parents at the school.

A lot of information that may be perceived as negative gets shared when a parent interested in a school for their child asks a specific question of current parents. [/quote]

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