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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have emailed the teacher if my ES child has had multiple "bad days". A bad day is when he has interactions with other children that make him upset. I write the teacher to get both sides of the story and use their experience to see how we can help our child navigate those situations better.[/quote]

Now imagine a teacher having to write a narrative of a child's day, multiplied by 25 times.
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Precisely.  When during a teacher’s 10 minutes at the end of the day does she have time to respond to even 3 or 4 parents asking these kinds of detail, much less more than that?!   I could see writing this email maybe ONCE a year.  Maybe.  But I would rather have my son’s teacher spend her scant non-instructional time planning, not giving me a blow by blow playback of Johnny’s altercation with Freddie in the line on the way to specials.

FFS, I grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s.  Somehow we all managed to get an education not only without email..,but with it teaches even having phones in the classroom.  Kids had negative experiences at school and dealt with them.  How parents think “parental involvement” means that a teacher must be an individual therapist, tutor, and personal growth coach for each child, and be 100% on call for every parent…it’s insane.  That is why teachers are leaving.  It is an impossible profession.

You know how I stay involved as a parent?  Not by email.  I ask my kid what they are studying.  This week?  a
Adding fractions, Ancient Greece, persuasive writing.  So we talk about fractions all the time in what we do at home.  We watched an Amazon Prime feature about Greek architecture.  I got him a graphic novel about Greek myths from the library.

That’s parental involvement.  Not harassing a teacher for lesson plans!!!  WTH.[/quote]

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