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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the teachers taking umbrage about the fact that parents expect them to act professionally. I hope you're not the same ones who complain about not being paid enough and not being treated like professionals. I can't tell you how [b]lame[/b] it is to not bother to respond to an email. Or that you brag about making fun of PITA parents. Grow up and behave like a professional and maybe you'll be treated with respect in return. 
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I think it's surprising that you use a word associated with disability as a slur on this board.  Do you also use the "R" word?

24 hour email response is a great ideal.  But teaching is a profession that has a lot of variety in it. There are days when I simply don't get 10 minutes to sit down an answer an email that asks for more than a sentence or two.  I have a 40 minute lunch every day (although twice a week, I've supervising club meeting then, and on other days, I often have kids in the room for homework help or other purposes) and an 80 minute planning period every other day, that often gets eaten up by the need to meet with an administrator about ensuring an event is accessible and universally designed, or a phone call with a parent, or helping a child who is in crisis, etc . . . Add in an IEP meeting that runs late, an after school staff meeting, or an event I'm attending so that one of my kids can be successful, and sometimes at the time I need to leave to take my own SN child to therapy, I simply haven't had a chance to reply to that email you sent yesterday 10 minutes after my planning period finished.

So, I do what teachers do. I add it to the list with the planning and the grading that I've already scheduled for tonight after dinner's over and I'm doing helping with HW, which, of course, isn't good enough for you, because it puts us outside the 24 hour window.

[b]In addition, if you are a parent who routinely escalates things up the chain of command, my supervisor pretty quickly concludes that you are "establishing a paper trail".  Suddenly, I'm being asked to run every email anyone sends to you past her.  This is true whether your complaints involved me or another teacher.  Getting approval for those emails usually involves physically tracking her down.  [/quote][/b]

+1    I was thinking this too.  Our principal instructed teachers not to send any emails, reply or otherwise, to any of a handful of crazed parents at our school, without clearing them with him first.  It is a pain to track him down and explain the background of whatever drama has prompted one of these parents to email, and so it takes longer for them to get replies.

So, OP, perhaps the admin at your kid's school has flagged you as one of these types, and the teacher is actually not ALLOWED to reply without clearing it with her supervisor.  [/quote]

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